(from a letter in this week’s Time Out NY, responding to the claim that Broadway show orchestras, "sometimes fake it")
"The fake-orchestra machine you cited has been banned by the musician’s union – and not without a fight! We are convinced that New Yorkers not only know the difference, but will continue to demand the kind of rare live performances one can find only in a Broadway pit."
That battle was fought in Boston twenty years ago over a proposed performance of Massenet’s oratorio Marie Madeleine. Conductor John Balme proposed using some kind of synthesizer to replace most or all of the orchestra and the union came to the defence of live musicians (Boston enjoys a large and astonishingly accomplished pool of instrumental talent).
The union prevailed and Balm closed the project down as it had been based financially on not hiring an orchestra.
That battle was fought in Boston twenty years ago over a proposed performance of Massenet’s oratorio Marie Madeleine. Conductor John Balme proposed using some kind of synthesizer to replace most or all of the orchestra and the union came to the defence of live musicians (Boston enjoys a large and astonishingly accomplished pool of instrumental talent).
The union prevailed and Balm closed the project down as it had been based financially on not hiring an orchestra.
That battle was fought in Boston twenty years ago over a proposed performance of Massenet’s oratorio Marie Madeleine. Conductor John Balme proposed using some kind of synthesizer to replace most or all of the orchestra and the union came to the defence of live musicians (Boston enjoys a large and astonishingly accomplished pool of instrumental talent).
The union prevailed and Balm closed the project down as it had been based financially on not hiring an orchestra.
That battle was fought in Boston twenty years ago over a proposed performance of Massenet’s oratorio Marie Madeleine. Conductor John Balme proposed using some kind of synthesizer to replace most or all of the orchestra and the union came to the defence of live musicians (Boston enjoys a large and astonishingly accomplished pool of instrumental talent).
The union prevailed and Balm closed the project down as it had been based financially on not hiring an orchestra.
That battle was fought in Boston twenty years ago over a proposed performance of Massenet’s oratorio Marie Madeleine. Conductor John Balme proposed using some kind of synthesizer to replace most or all of the orchestra and the union came to the defence of live musicians (Boston enjoys a large and astonishingly accomplished pool of instrumental talent).
The union prevailed and Balm closed the project down as it had been based financially on not hiring an orchestra.
That battle was fought in Boston twenty years ago over a proposed performance of Massenet’s oratorio Marie Madeleine. Conductor John Balme proposed using some kind of synthesizer to replace most or all of the orchestra and the union came to the defence of live musicians (Boston enjoys a large and astonishingly accomplished pool of instrumental talent).
The union prevailed and Balm closed the project down as it had been based financially on not hiring an orchestra.