Flexible, adaptable, essential

With elements of both the Dock Labour Scheme and minimum hours contracts, the caring BBC has decided not to kill one of its five orchestras (too obvious), but to make a fifth of the musicians currently in them redundant. 

"A voluntary redundancy programme will open across salaried posts in the English Orchestras (BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra), aiming to reduce salaried orchestral posts across the BBC orchestras by around 20%."

This action, they claim, is based "on the founding principles of the BBC orchestras as flexible and adaptable".  Produce the text, I hear you say. 

No such agility required of the BBC Singers - they're now toast.  And, for the first time since they were founded as the Wireless Singers in 1924, BBC managers have had another blinding flash of light. "It is essential that the BBC invests in more broadcast opportunities from a greater range of high-quality ensembles, and therefore the BBC has made the difficult decision to close the BBC Singers (20 posts) and invest resources in a wider pool of choral groups from across the UK."