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  3. VSL to be used for Der Ring?

  • VSL to be used for Der Ring?

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/arts/music/a-digital-orchestra-for-opera-purists-take-and-play-offense.html?_r=0

    Not exactly the best use of VSL, but I guess the economic realities are what they are.
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    this bugs me, especially since I feel VSL is a tremendous artistic creation. These people are acting like it is a piece of junk.  I don't know what to think.  Why do musicians do this? My guess is they don't like it being a replacement for live performance.  It is assumed music will be live, if presented so.  So one could present a karaoke performance of accompaniment recorded with an orchestra, with opera singers playing their parts, or one could do the same with VSL samples.  But it would be a recording, instead of live, which is the real problem - but these orchestral musicians don't understand that and reject the whole idea of digital samples as a travesty.  It is not from the standpoint of composers.
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    I'd personally rather see it with a piano.

    The same applies to ballets with recorded orchestras. You're totally aware of the recording from beginning to end. It's really annoying.
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    I have about 10 reduced orchestrations of the standard ballet repertoire, precisely for when small companies can't afford a full orchestra. However, these days they are not used very much, as most companies prefer to use a recording, as it is cheaper. In the end, the audience will either accept it, or they won't

    DG
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    They've accepted it already but don't like it as much.  It's like it is not as "classy."  But the ballet companies can't even pay their dancers a lot of the time so how could they pay a symphony ochestra?

    It reminds me of the shows here in Reno Nevada.  This is a town like Las Vegas though smaller, where there have always been casino shows, with big performers, and so the casinos all used to have their own house orchestra, including strings.  I played horn in one of the orchestras.  They were all union musicians with good pay and benefits.  As soon as digital sequencers came in all the orchestras disappeared.  Now there isn't even one.