The Auckland (NZ) Philharmonia is in terrible shape. And the woes don’t just extend to funding. “According to a consultant’s report, it is wracked by internal conflict “verging on dysfunctionality”. All in all, the Philharmonia’s 25th year has become far from the celebratory occasion it should be. It need not have been this way. The orchestra’s funding difficulties can be laid, in large part, at the door of miserly local authorities.”