” ‘We are not professionals. We share our problems with our audience,’ said conductor Richard Neville-Towle, before a wobbly rendition of the Gavotte from Bach’s Fifth French Suite. It’s the kind of concert where a critic might be prevailed upon to make remarks during the concert, rather than saving them for the paper, where the principal bass could explain the role of her instrument and which could end, after a sing-along South Pacific, with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 complete with canon effects from the audience (bursting bags).”