HONOLULU -- The Honolulu Symphony's board president told city officials he plans to issue a public statement soon about the symphony's future.

Honolulu Symphony Board President Peter Shaindling told city officials he had to reschedule Monday afternoon's meeting with the city on Tuesday to discuss the orchestra's future and its financial situation.

And, for another day, the symphony did not call its musicians' union, which is trying to find out if the 110-year-old organization plans to file for bankruptcy reorganization.

Musicians' Union President Brien Matson has been waiting for a call back from Honolulu Symphony officials for one week, as he tries to learn if the symphony will file for bankruptcy and what that means for its 64 full-time musicians.

"It's just two months ago that we agreed to a half million dollars in pay concessions, and that was, we were told, money that the symphony needed to balance its budget this year. So, we don't understand why after only a few weeks into the season, there would be any discussion about this kind of drastic action," symphony percussionist Steve Dinion said.

"I'm disappointed again, for the audience. You've got a lot of people that continue to buy tickets to the performances," city Enterprise Services Director Sidney Quintal said.

The symphony paid $165,000 to use the Blaisdell Concert hall last season, and if the orchestra cancels performances, the city would be able to resell some of the dates to other acts, everything from beauty pageants to ballet, city officials said.

The city took in $650,000 in rentals from non-symphony concert hall shows in the last year.

"We have to decline requests to use the concert hall because the symphony has already reserved those dates way out in advance," Quintal said.

Symphony members said out-of-town acts do not keep money in Hawaii.

"But then they leave, and they take the money with them out of the state. A symphony orchestra is in the community, all of the employees, all of the musicians -- we're in the community. We pay our bills. We pay our mortgages and our rent," Dinion said.

Orchestra members said the symphony provides musicians for Hawaii Opera Theatre's three annual productions. Many of its members teach private lessons and classes at schools and universities.