Nathaniel,

In the context of your criticism of the banishment of daemons from 
the Sanders Theatre performance of Mozart's #39 last evening, I was
reminded of my satire of a Sanders Theatre concert on page 345
of Vol. 1 of my novel Döhring, a wedding concert on the occasion
of Döhring's marriage to Dorothea. The first part of the concert
is Kantate Nr. 197 "Gott ist unsre Zuversicht, wir vertrauen seinen
Händen," which edifies Döhring as expected but leaves Dorothea cold;
more apposite to last night's concert is the account of the performance
during the second half of the concert of a computer generated score the 
performance of which was controlled electronically in that each music 
stand was fitted with its own microphone and each musician's playing was 
electronically analysed for musical correctness, absence of which would 
be indicated by a flashing red light mounted over the head of the deviant 
musician. Döhring said to Dorothea: Das hat mit uns nichts zu tun, and 
they left when the intermission ended.

Jochen