MUSIC

After five months of searching for solutions and struggling for funds, the Nashville Symphony Assn. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Music City’s 85-member orchestra shut down Feb. 3 because of financial trouble, and since then a task force of board members and musicians have wrangled over cost-cutting plans to keep the symphony alive. Attorney C. Kinian Cosner Jr., who filed the petition, said it will be followed within 15 days by a more detailed accounting of the orchestra’s finances. The filing of a bankruptcy petition protects the symphony from its creditors until a reorganization plan can be devised. The symphony has no plans for future performances, Cosner said.