New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra assistant concertmaster Laura Hamilton
are backing a call to keep musicians playing in Broadway musicals.
The Save Live Music on Broadway campaign has been launched by the
American Federation of Musicians Local 802 and is being sponsored
by the non-profit Council for Living Music. Dicterow and Hamilton
have joined Juilliard School president Joseph Polisi and several
Broadway composers and lyricists in endorsing the campaign.
AFM Local 802 has criticised the new Broadway production – none of
them string players – and using recorded music. Local 802 president
Tino Gagliardi told the New York Times: 'They're getting
away with putting an orchestra string section on a recording in
order to save money.' But the show's producers argue that recorded
strings are being used for artistic reasons, and that live string
players couldn't achieve the synthetic pop aesthetic that some of
the show's songs aim for.
The Save Live Music on Broadway campaigners cited a recent national
poll of Broadway musical audiences, in which 91 per cent of those
surveyed said the best part about a Broadway musical is the music,
and in which three out of four respondents said they would not buy
tickets to a show if they were aware it would be using recorded
music to replace some or all of the musicians.
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