Talk:Ernest Read

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The Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra website describes it as an amateur orchestra. I don't know whether it was ever a professional orchestra, but I have serious doubts as I know that it was already amateur when my wife played with them in the late 1950s. PhysicistQuery (talk) 22:49, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]