After replying at length to comments from the previous post, I don't really have much more to add, so you may want to read those if you're really interested. In the comment thread on Lisa's blog, Cedric from SFist comments that perhaps the Symphony is sandbagging some commissions and special programming for next year, which will be SFS's centennial. He says he's just being an optimist, but I think the sugestion has some real merit to it.