The Vienna Philharmonic is one of the world’s great orchestras. Also one of the few to retain a distinctive sound that is theirs alone. Trouble is, they don’t believe in women musicians in their midst. The international campaign taking on the VPO’s sexist discrimination has been fertilized on the internet in a real cyber-grass roots effort that has exerted considerable pressure on the orchestra to change its ways. (be sure to take the musical gender test part way through the story). – MSNBC 01/20/00