I appreciate your adding definition to the underbelly of orchestras. It seems to be almost inevitable that when people choose to focus only on themselves and their music and their performance and their career that values and common decency can fall to the wayside.
It also seems to me that, again, with all due respect to the orchestra players who are responsible and have good intent, there seems to be a tendency to circle the wagons and try to keep those they consider outsiders from saying anything critical about any of them, even when it is true.
Le Chant du Rossignol...(song of the nightingale) 