alarmist reports

Indeed, alarmist reports have appeared in the English press about the parlous state of the orchestra and its financial base.

More recently, more prosaic workers have claimed that the damage to coral reefs is nowhere near as widespread as the earlier alarmist reports had suggested.

But a state-controlled newspaper, The Herald, sharply criticized American officials today and accused them of responding to "false and alarmist reports."

But contrary to alarmist reports, a solid core of players are veterans of the Mravinsky regime: 68 of the 111 on this tour, an orchestra spokesman said.

City officials played down the alarmist reports, but residents said they were grateful for Ronka's on-the-scene presence and his fight in City Hall to cut red tape.

Mr. Aksyonenko, who had publicly challenged Mr. Zadornov's authority to conduct Russia's macroeconomic policy, calmly disputed such alarmist reports.

At the mere mention of alarmist reports, even before the name of Mr. Lebrecht, the author of the ultimate alarmist tract, "Who Killed Classical Music?

Isaac Stern's moving expression of faith in the future of classical music in the face of alarmist reports was echoed by Joseph Polisi, the president of the Juilliard School.