West Side Story billboard in Times Square, NYC

Orchestra in a Box

Soundcheck | Jul 19, 2010

West Side Story is the latest Broadway musical to look at using a virtual orchestra in place of live musicians. Today: man and machine battle for dominance of the orchestra pit in a Soundcheck Smackdown. And later: indie-classical music from composer-DJ Gabriel Prokofiev and pianist GéNIA.

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