Save the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra

"Please keep live music alive!"

"Canned music!!??"

"save live music for the love of god!"

"keep Atlanta the cultural center of the south!"

"ballet needs live orchestra to succeed artistically"

"How can you have ballet without live music! It didn't work when they tried it years ago when I played in the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, and it will not work now! Don't even try! It only demonstrates musical ignorance to do such a thing to the dancers, and "

"save your orchestra! Its priceless!"

"Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra member"

"This is very short-sighted and is a tremendous blow to artistic excellence. David Sanders, Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellist."

"As the Mother of a Musician and as an artist myself with a great appreciation for aAll forms of art, I cannot imagine going to a ballet of ANY kind and enjoying a performnance that is done to a tape recording of Music. The Orchestra is as exciting to me a"

"keep the music alive!!"

"culture in this city need not die out- let's please support those who enrich life here in Atlanta"

"I have a child that plays in the Emory University Youth Orchestra. To see what leaders in the arts community are trying to do to the arts is a very difficult thing to explain."

"I am sure that you don't want to create the impression with tourists, and others around the country, that the people of Atlanta don't know the difference in quality between live performance of art, and canned art. I would hope that you want to project a m"

"I am really pained culturally with this"

"Please keep the Atlanta Ballet alive! It is an incrediable organization and needs your support! Thanks!"