A very respectable member of the music business who has worked with the Vienna Philharmonic points out an error in the posting below. Werner Resel, whom I quoted, is the Orchestra Director of the Vienna State Opera, not the business manager of the orchestra itself (that would be the flutist Dieter Flury, who, it must be said, has also made obnoxious comments in past years). Further, readers are asked to consider that the Philharmonic is working hard to repair mistakes that it has made in the past, and that bringing women into its ranks is a high priority. To which it might be replied that, whatever the good intentions of more liberal-minded people in the organization, progress over the past ten years has been conspicuously slow.
