Live Musicians Are Instrumental

So Robert Boress as a “one-man (digital) band” misses the “camaraderie and stimulation that comes from working with other musicians” (“A One-Man Band Puts Some Teeth in a Hippo’s Bite,” Tech Careers, July 14). Well, then, he can come on down to the unemployment line to say hello to some of his former colleagues!

As society has been invaded by karaoke bars and as more live performance art is being replaced by electronics, how soon before a concert at the Philharmonic will entail lowering a screen and cranking up a huge sound system?

Boress said it best himself: “The sound of a vibrating string still has a unique ability to touch a listener’s soul.” As a professional musician, I hope that Boress and other composers would push to use live musicians whenever possible to create that special “nuance of traditional musical instruments.”

J. SCOTT JANUSCH

Member, Local 47

American Federation of Musicians

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