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Re: Pit Orchestra Parts: Elimination to Save Dollars

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-06-07 18:45

As I understand it this is become the norm even inside of NYC. Every time there's a new contract with the Broadway musicians the houses are asking, and getting it in many cases, less musicians to have to guarantee. Many of the new scores are being written using less and less musicians to accommodate them. When they take shows on the road it is not uncommon to use an electric key board to fill in the missing voices. I had a student that toured the country for several years playing shows across the USA in big houses and cities with an orchestra of 6-7 live musicians doing scores that required many more in their original score. He told me in many cases he couldn't even hear himself because the electric keyboard would be louder then the "live" musicians. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com

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