Save the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra

"How can you expect to charge an audience money to see ballet performed to "canned" music? If the combination of live music with live dancing seems irrelevant, I suggest you try playing videos of people dancing. That would certainly be a good cost cutting "

"I support and contribute to live music in Atlanta!"

"Ballet danced to taped music is missing half the art form. I hope the trustees are planning to only charge 50\% for tickets?"

"My daughter is in theater and I can't imagine having taped music for the ballet."

"This is yet another example of the corporate "leaders" of a local performing arts nonprofit taking the easy way out so they don't have to do the leg work they're supposed to be doing for their group. I find it ridiculous to believe that in a city with the"

"Save the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra"

"I would NEVER go to see a "live" performance that used taped music!"

"Dance without a live musical performance is like a play performed in monotone; you are removing a large part of the emotional impact of a live performance. Please reconsider your decision for the dancers and the audience in addition to the musicians."

"My daughter is an aspiring flutist. What is she to do when there are no more live performers, only stilted sounding recordings."

"I have enyoyed the Atlanta Ballet performances BECAUSE of the live score accompaniement. I would not continue to patronize the Atlanta Ballet knowing that they were performed to some sort of "canned" score. This is a cheap "buyout" of professional musicia"

"NYC supports the orchestra!"

"Is Bush on your Board?"

"Live music is an important ingredient to the success of a live performance. The culture in this country has already slipped below an acceptable level."