Buffalo Philharmonic Was Once As Down And Out As Its City – And Both Are Coming Back

“‘When I got here,’ [music director JoAnn Falletta said of the orchestra’s hall], ‘there was graffiti all over this, and the glass was broken.’ That was in the late 1990s, when many assumed that Buffalo and its orchestra were both pretty much finished. … Nearly two decades later, the orchestra has proved its viability – as has the city, slowly yet steadily improving its fortunes.”