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25 rll, Tanya and I are performing the 6th Brandenburg Concerto and some other pieces in conjunction with the New Jersey Youth Symphony in Morristown, NJ also as a fundraiscr for cll c LPO, and we hope to play many more such conceres in the future to raise money for our co lleagues until the LPO can recover. lf you wOLJd li ke to comributc to the "Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Relief Fund" please make a deposit at any Bank One or Chase branch (the Fund's account is in the Baton Rouge office) or mail a check payable to the Fund ro: Louisiana Philliarmonjc Orchestra, c/o Baron Rouge Symphony Orchestra, attn: Babs Moliere, P.O. Box 14209, Baton Rouge, LA 70898. lt's hard to say what cl1e future of the LPO will be. Hopefully, the city will be rebuil t right, businesses cllar Aed the city over the past 30 years (knowing this wOLJd happen some day) wiLl return, and cl1e LPO will be better than ever. If so, one day not too fa r off, you' ll again be able to come down to New Orleans, enjoy the sights and sounds of the French Quarter, have some mtfish po'boys and crawfish crouffee and cross Canal Sr. to finish off the everung with a concert at the LPO.

called. Many orchestras took great advantage of rhe publicity in their communities ro show all rhe work they were offering to the displaced LPO members, but failed ro clarifY to the public chat this work was almost always sub spots that they couldn't All anyway and paid very li ttle. (I received emails from several people remarking how well off the LPO players must be with all of the offers coming in! Far, fa r from true.) The historic Orpheum Theater located one block offof Canal St. , where the LPO is based, is now fiJJed wicl1 water to cl1e bottom of the stage, a reported twelve feet. The hatch to the cl1imney blew off dur ing rl1c storm, soaking cl1c curtains, the lights, the stage and the acousti C<'ll shell ceiling panels, and the entire first floor seating is under water. nine feet, four inches of water. T hree weeks later, it is still under three and a half feet ofwhat is being politely described as 'water', but what is really a mix of gasoline, chemicals and a whole lot of other stuff Many other musicians (jved in our neighborhood, and their houses are also a total loss. We haven't been aJJowed back into the neighborhood yet (and can't imag ine that will happen anytime soon), but I don't guess that any of our possessions will have survived submerged for chis long. Our one-story house, at the height of the Aood was under a reported The LPO and the Nashville Symphony arc purring on a fund raising concert on October 4th in Nashville, which is for the moment cl1e only concert sched ul ed for the LPO. On September

them. Next were picrures of flooded rooftops, entire cities gone, crowds of people waU

Cleaning Up by Nick Coventry

On Thursday morning I woke up and wrned on the television. Four days ago 1 had watched the wind tearing tlu·ough tl1e trees, cl1e bending palm trees and reporters in raincoats yelling, angty seas rumbling bel'tind

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