Save the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra

"It would be a shame to lose our Orchestra to pre-recorded music."

"This would be a disgrace."

"Without live music, the artistic (humanistic) quality inherent in ballet (and opera) is all but lost."

"If ther is no live music, it's just another community production. Not to be taken seriously."

"Preserve the arts."

"In this day and age of using recorded music in so many venues (recording artists, etc.) how can you throw away such a classic part of ballet, which is the live music?"

"if you go with canned music - why not just have a video of ballet dancers instead of live - NO WAY!"

"This is quite shocking! Please do not use recorded music for the ballet - I know that I would definitely not go to the ballet knowing that there is not live music. Live music is so hard to find with the movement of technology - do not get rid of the talen"

"Have you considered that many of us attend the Ballet because of the Orchestra? I am much less inclined to watch dancers "interact" with canned music."

"Consider watching a taped performance of Swan Lake with a live orchestra performing! Equally ludicrous!! Ask your patrons; they will tell you."

"Live music is part of the artistic experience of ballet, from the audience's standpoint. When the orchestra's salaries are such a small percentage of the overall costs, as happens in Ballet, why cheapen the artistic experience? Surely some other creative "

"The live orchestra is part of the ballet performance"

"I hope the Board will reconsider. We love to see the Atlanta Ballet and the Orchestra together. I can't imagine the two separate."

"Keeping the music live is essential to the complete ballet experience."

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