I second that remark about the singers! I've had to learn pieces in Latin, French, Mediaeval English, German, Italian and Spanish - AND I've had to sit behind many an orchestra right in the danger zone!

I think we need danger money too - I've been bashed by a bassoon, one foot squashed by a French Horn, and the other drenched by dribble from the same instrument.

Plus, we have to hold our own music up or learn it by heart .... all those instrumentalists get stands.

Sod the Musicians Union, how about a Singers' Union?!

LTS (Choir member for 30 years next month)