What is going on with the symphony orchestra in America? Is it dying? There have been several high-profile bankruptcies in recent years, some resulting in the complete shutting down of operations. But there is the conviction that something has to be done. There is talk of a business model that is broken, but not many constructive ideas for what this supposedly broken model should morph into. A recent article by Phillip Kennicott blames the diffusion of the orchestra’s primary mission by educational initiatives and navel-gazing searching for a supposedly lost cultural relevancy. But perhaps the real problem is two opposing constituencies so thoroughly entrenched in their well-meaning but ultimately self-destructive ideologies that they have lost sight of the fact that they are two halves of a whole (or two thirds of a whole) that desperately need each other in order to succeed.