Music: One Solution

In the audiences at Buffalo’s Philharmonic Orchestra concerts there was one notable lack: young married couples. Most of them, Buffalo’s orchestra manager Robert Maclntyre found out, wouldn’t risk buying season tickets because they couldn’t be sure of getting sitters for their kids. Last week, after conferring with two Buffalo sitter services, Maclntyre announced his solution: for the coming season, the Buffalo Philharmonic would guarantee to provide sitters (at 55¢ an hour) for season-ticket holders. The response, said Maclntyre, was already “very enthusiastic.”