“The cumulative force of years of negative posturing, while successful in increasing musicians’ pay scales, in my opinion has weakened the Symphony’s prospects and credibility.” So speaks Roy Nolen, a former Houston Symphony board member who says that the orchestra’s problems do not stem from a lack of management competence, but from the inability of the musicians to accept the reality that the residents of the nation’s fourth-largest city simply do not care about orchestral music. “It may be time for the Houston Symphony Society to consider whether a single-city symphony orchestra of high quality is viable in Houston.”