Cleveland Won’t Be Orchestra World’s Montreal Expos

The Cleveland Orchestra is spending an awful lot of time in cities other than Cleveland these days, and it didn’t take long for rumors to fly that the orchestra, unable to sustain itself financially in economically depressed Cleveland, would shortly be pulling up stakes for months at a time or even abandoning the city completely. But Donald Rosenberg says that “for many reasons, it is nonsensical to consider that the Cleveland Orchestra would leave town.”