Long ago, composers and orchestras got along great.
Composers wrote symphonies to make orchestras sound good, and orchestras did their best to perform those symphonies to make that composer look good.
Then, something went sour.
Composers began to write more and more difficult and discordant symphonies.
Symphonies left their instruments at home, just made all kinds of noise.
Audiences left in droves.
They came to a stale peace eventually.
But composers would throw in long solos.
A whole orchestra booked, but only one working.
Everyone staring at the violinist, frittering, and thinking I got my drycleaning rush just for this?