Thank you, Rich, for this very encouraging article. As a wind musician and composer, I have shared many of the same concerns as the members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and have really missed not being able to play live for the last two years.
I was so fortunate to have premiered my second composed symphony for full orchestra in Bellingham on December 20, 2019, at Squalicum High School, performed by the North Cascades Community Orchestra, conducted by cellist Chip Bergeron, and featuring soloists from the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra and Western Washington Symphony Orchestra.. I am just now myself reuniting with the performing groups that I have been in and back to writing projects. I can't wait to be able to hear the Seattle Symphony perform again in concert live.

@1 Correction: make that about a year and a half since I was able to perform live, in December of 2019.
I was so fortunate that 2019 for me was such a productive year. Who would have ever known that we would be in the midst of a global pandemic by 2020? I had also premiered a series of short seasonal pieces for flute choir and piano that spring, and had just finished playing piccolo and C flute in the pit orchestra in the Bellingham Theatre Guild production of Crazy for You during the holiday season. If my symphony had been postponed for the following year it would never have premiered.