Digital music is to live music what movies are to plays.
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Natural consequence of demanding & leveraging excessive wages. “A thing is worth only what another is willing to give for it” ... and live performances are not, to a large & growing percentage of potential audiences, worth >10x a CD or video.
My approach to this one is from the point of view of an audiophile.
Few home systems approach live sound (that’s “approach”). No (that’s zero, nada) large auditorium audio system I’ve heard has sounds that I would even class as “not that bad at all.”
I stand to be corrected, of course, but for now I’d avoid any “sampled orchestra” performance just as I’d avoid coming anywhere near to the Obamadork
Simple Solution. Ban Music.
(am I turning Muslim ?)
I seldom attend live performances any more. My wife and I are opera fans, and used to be season ticket holders at Houston Grand Opera. We stopped going due to the fact that almost all new productions of operas are revisionist crap that are almost never set in the proper period or place. I prefer to watch Blu-rays or DVDs of better performances at home.
Those live bands on the late night shows always seem goofy and expensive. Yes I know music is needed to time the next break, but a computer can do it. Goodby
Q: Which is better? A real drummer or a drum machine?
A: A drum machine. It keeps better time and doesn’t sleep with your girlfriend.
Just got back from Boston. I heard the 1870 organ in St. Catherine of Siena on Warren Street. All mechanical. They are repairing it. Here’s the website.
http://stmarystcatherine.org/restoring-st-marys-pipe-organ/organ-gallery/
Those who don't understand history are condemned to repeat it...
Back in the day Electric Light Orchestra was sued over their use of recorded strings during a show at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
Like, did they really think they could bring the London Philharmonic on tour with them?
One of my cousins is a very good piano player and plays other instruments. She worked at many studios and orchestra’s over the years. Played for 3 years in a Phantom of the Opera production. She says she got out of the business when the pay went way down. She once played at a big celebs wedding with some others and was there for many hours. She figures it worked out to $10/hr.
I saw this show a few years ago, and it was incredible, if you didn't know any better, you would have swore there were five or six other musicians there.
I’d rather have my high ticket price go to fund musicians who actually provide entertainment than those unionized stagehands who command outrageous salaries for little or no work.
It's likely Goldstein is correct that a full live orchestra would make his Ring cycle too expensive to produce. But if we let him proceed...Overlooked in the comments is the notion that union goons "let" creators proceed with their creations.
the theater guild unions, not only the musicians and other performers, and their work-rules and wage demands, will be the death of ....................the theater guild unions after they destroy “live” performances by their demands