The orchestra pictured here is NOT the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland

Today's orchestral newsflash was, that John Storgårds will stay in lead of the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, in the condition that they will hire one additional musician per year until 2011 to make this very small but virtuosic ensemble more versatile. He stated, that the municipality of Rovaniemi had promised to hire new players already back in the 80's.

This sound like very good news to the world's northernmost orchestra, so let's hope they will get the posts they need. Storgårds put a deadline for hiring the first extra musician before the end of 2007, so we are witnessing a lot of interesting deadlines. Which one will prevail, money or art?