There’s a little Q&A with composer William Bolcom in today’s Wall Street Journal, which contains this exchange about one of his upcoming works:

WSJ: You’ve written eight symphonies. Do you have a ninth in the works?

Bolcom: The ninth will be for a concert band, which I will deliver by September. To get an orchestra to spend more than three or four rehearsals on something is like pulling teeth.

Ouch.