The Moscow Philharmonic Hoax

Here's a strange item from the Museum of Hoaxes web site: In August 2000, The Moscow Philharmonic, which the Celebrity Series has presented three times in the last 40 years (ahem), was impersonated in a series of Hong Kong concerts by a phantom orchestra going by the name of The Moscow Philharmonic. The concerts got good reviews, too, apparently. Now there isn't any documentation at the link above, but there is some discussion of the event online. I leave it to you budding Conan Doyle's out there to slice through the web and get to the bottom of this.

And if you need a hat for your sleuthing, try Miller Hats, the source of the image above.

Now, neither the Moscow Philharmonic nor the phantom orchestra is the National Philharmonic of Russia (which, ahem, is coming to Boston March 16). So much for smooth transitions...