How The Kitchener-Waterloo Fiasco Got This Bad

It was August when executives at the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony learned that their ensemble was in serious danger of not being able to complete the 2006-07 season unless a major financial turnaround was achieved. The KWSO had ended the ’05-’06 season $600,000 in the red, even after a $750,000 behind-the-scenes fundraising campaign. “The symphony, after studying solutions struggling orchestras in Vancouver and Calgary have used, realized it would have to go public with its problems.”