I meant to say _Mamma Mia_ is, I assume, being played with an
orchestra of 20 or 25 OR an even smaller combo.
RBH
dhbailey wrote:
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 09:37 PM 01/30/2005, Raymond Horton wrote:
>There is another, major, difference between musicians fighting for
their
>jobs, and the ice-deliverers vs. refrigerators comparison. In the
>latter case, the new refrigerator was a SUPERIOR product, and the for
>the ice deliverers to fight progress would have been futile. In the
>case of live musicians vs.synthesis, musicians are fighting an
INFERIOR
>product
I agree. I made the point a few posts back that there are (at least)
three separate issues here, of which the labor issue is one and the
quality issue is another. The iceman example was speaking strictly to
the labor issue.
Let's see now, we're talking of "quality" and Bobby Vinton in the same
sentence? It seems to me that the question of why Bobby Vinton was on
that orchetra's stage (was he doing Schubert lieder or something?) is
as germane to this discussion as to why he was allowed to use a
synthesizer.
That the orchestra had lowered its standards in order to try to draw a
larger audience speaks volumes about how the battle is already lost in
many ways. If Bobby Vinton had had to maintain certain vocal
standards the way a classical/non-pop singer would have to, in order
to perform with the orchestra, would he have been allowed on the stage
to begin with, synthesizer or no?
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