Save the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra

"please reconsider your actions! we don't want to lose any more of the making of great art in this country!"

"I'm saddened at this decision. The orchestra is an intregal part to the ballet. To remove it and replace it with recorded music cheapens the entire experience."

"Thank you for your consideration; let's preserve elegance and authenticity in the arts: world class ballet performed to live music. Best,, Julie Squires"

"You are making a mistake thinking people will continue to come to a ballet without the orchestra."

"I am uttertly disappointed at such a decision. I will NOT be attending ballet performance in Atlanta because of this, and am encouraging all my friends to do the same, which they will agree. Please, I hope you will reconsider, and KEEP THE ORCHESTRA!!!!!"

"Principal cellist, Mission Chamber Orchestra, San Jose, CA"

"I find it abominable that this would even be considered. If Atlanta is going to continue its attempts to become a world class city for the arts, this kind of action can only alienate and subvert everyone's best efforts. Recorded music indeed! You should b"

"What a shame and a disgrace"

"If you're going to eliminate the live music, why not eliminate the live dancers, too and really save money. A performance could show computer-simulated movement to computer-simulated music. Good grief. Nothing, but nothing is as magical as live perfomance"

"Unacceptable."

"Some of the most profoundly beautiful music was composed for ballet - and intended to be played by a live orchestra. The orchestra is the foundation on which a great ballet company can be built. Without the freedom of give and take allowed in live music, "

"What does this mean to the future of young aspiring musicians who have one less opportunity to continue their craft? What do the wonderfully gifted, great young musicians who perform in the Atlanta Youth Symphony have to look forward to when one less oppo"

"How can the Atlanta Ballet consider itself a "real" ballet company with canned music? I am truly horrified by this decision, and I believe if ticket holders really understood that they were paying for recordings instead of real musicians, many of them wou"

"The "GREED" being displayed by those who pretend to have any degree of CLASS will be the DEMISE of the Ballet and symphonic venues, as the musicians refuse to "record" the music that will itself, cost those venues their existence as the musicians look to "

"Supporting the Arts is always a challenge. But we must face that challenge. Civilization is at stake."