Minneapolis/St. Paul is the only metropolitan area in the US to support two major orchestras – the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra – and over the years, the Twin Cities have earned a reputation for adventurous audiences and daring programming. But Michael Anthony says that reputation is increasingly at odds with reality, as both orchestras stack their seasons with Beethoven, Brahms, and little else, “a reflection of economics, of orchestra boards and marketing departments running scared, hoping to avoid deficits and sustain their graying audience by programming the same old works they think the audience wants to hear.”