“Scratch the Orchestras of Pasadena. No, the financially up-against-it Pasadena Symphony and Pasadena Pops have not gone belly up, but their new management has determined that the name the formerly independent organizations had adopted when they merged in 2007 was a flop.” Now dubbed the Pasadena Symphony Association, it “has raised about $2 million since November, when it declared a fiscal emergency, laying off staff and canceling several concerts.”