graeter said:
“Lo and behold: their students are gaining on them and might want their jobs! suddenly the skill of their students is a threat.”
Unless they were able to realize that a student might be a threat early-on. They do have ways of trying to deal with that…
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/05/these-we-have-lost-minnesotas-ghost-orchestra.html