With many large American orchestras facing multi-million dollar deficits, bloated budgets, and uncertain futures, the Dallas Symphony is continuing to be a model of fiscal sanity, without compromising artistic integrity. The DSO “came within $150,000 of balancing its $21 million budget for the 2002-03 fiscal year. That’s a big improvement over the $847,000 deficit during 2001-02– and a considerable achievement in a year marked by bankruptcies, multimillion-dollar deficits and contract rollbacks for other orchestras.” The news isn’t all good – ticket sales in Dallas are down again – but in the current economic climate, the DSO has to be considered a major success story.