Will the virtual orchestra replace real players as part of this distant future?

As in pop music, the virtual orchestra may creep into the field.

This is not the first time the virtual orchestra has been at the center of a dispute.

During the strike, producers threatened to use the virtual orchestra to replace live music, but they never did.

We did the same that Saturday - and without music or a virtual orchestra.

The existence of the virtual orchestra was meant as insurance.

Management has no plans to use virtual orchestras to wipe out live music.

In fact, the cast had already been rehearsing with their new "virtual orchestra."

Welcome to the virtual orchestra, the group that always plays on pitch and never calls for a coffee break.

Amplification, which now seems the first step toward the virtual orchestra, took root on Broadway in the early 1960's.