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From Broadway theaters to opera houses and Hollywood production studios, digital orchestras are providing controversial alternatives to real-life musicians. The most recent example concerns the Broadway revival of West Side Story, which will soon lose half of its string section for a synthesizer. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on digital orchestras. Joining us are Paul Woodiel, a violinist who plays in the pit orchestra for West Side Story, and Paul Henry Smith, the creator of the Fauxharmonic, a computer program that uses digital versions of musical notes to replicate conventional instruments.
Also joining us is mezzo-soprano Tynan Davis, who performs a selection from Handel's opera Xerxes with the Fauxharmonic in the Soundcheck studio.
Today's Playlist:
1. Overture - West Side Story (2004 Remastered)
2. Handel's Ombra Mai Fu from Xerxes - Tynan Davis, mezzo-soprano (recorded in the Soundcheck studio by the Fauxharmonic)
3. Handel's Ombra Mai Fu from Xerxes - Les Arts Florissants, Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
4. Les Miserables - Red and Black
5. Fauxharmonic - Beethoven - Symphony No. 2, II Largetto
6. West Side Story - Suite
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