Save the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra

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"Though I support the company and their needs to save money, live music is the ideal finishing touch for any phenomenal production."

"The board needs to revisit their fiduciary responsibilites to the ballet which includes preserving the integrity of the institution. If it's about "their money", the board's responsibility is to seek out solutions, not reinvent something they're intrusted"

"dear board of trustees, atlanta ballet - have you lost your collective minds? please step up and be leaders not lemmings."

"Live performance has flexibility. Canned music has only the flexibility of that one performance. How creatively confining to require each performance to have only the pauses of that one canned moment. How can it ever have new magic?"

"DO THE RIGHT THING, AND KEEP LIVE MUSIC ALIVE!"

"Live music rules!"

"I'm horrified. I would never spend money to see ballet - a living, breathing art form - accompanied by some dead orchestra in a can! The live orchestra is the soul of all such art forms, so I literally think we cannot live without it."

"As a performing musician, I am appalled at your decision to cut out live music. The live music is every bit part of the experience as the dancers. You should be ashamed calling yourself artists."

"You are making a big mistake by eliminating the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra from your Company. This decision, if not reversed will change the way people enjoy your performances and the respect that they have had for a ballet company that performs with live m"

"I am a cellist with the Chicago Symphony"

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