A proper explanation has still not been given for the cancelled performance of Andrew Gant's A Very British Symphony (The Argus, March 5).

Ivan Rockley's comment that a large proportion of the audience "rather liked the change in programme"

makes no sense, because no one has had a chance to hear the new symphony.

Some people may only want to hear a few well-known standard classics, but that is not what was advertised, and the Brighton Philharmonic surely has a role in broadening, not narrowing, musical tastes.

To suddenly cancel a new work by a composer who had hitherto been highly spoken of needs some explanation and apology.

  • Alexander Bruce, Sussex Square, Brighton