David Runnion wrote ...

>...  Do you propose that MIDI performances become the industry standard?
>Are people going to stop going to concerts? Does the capacity to
>electronically mimic live performance necessitate its elimination? Nobody
>is arguing that it isn't a wonderful technology, but classical music is too
>steeped in tradition, and to closely involved with live performance and the
>recordings thereof, that MIDI will never become a commercial substitution
>for "the real thing."

I too doubt that MIDI will stop people from going to concerts, just as
some people want to hear Bach's music played on the original instruments
of the time.  However, much music in movies, and TV are MIDI, where they
used to be played by studio musicians.  What will probably happen is that
(classical) music will be written on MIDI, then the sheet music rendered
and used by real musicians to produce live and the CD recordings.  That's
a good combo.

Bill Pirkle