Your correspondent "builder of The Dome" (Letters, March 21), one of the actors playing the part of Dome builders in the community event there on March 2, said everyone was "highly amused" by the actor-builders at the start of the show pretending the hall was not ready.

Seven days earlier, it had been far from highly amusing for the 1,633 audience, the sponsors and 250 performers led by conductor Barry Wordsworth when the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's opening concert was cancelled by the Dome at less than a day's notice because the hall genuinely was not ready.

I am glad "builder of the Dome" enjoyed his or her day but the actor-builders joke which started that event was in poor taste.

-Tony Woodhouse, General Manager, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra