[Robert Heuer] stressed that he and music director Stewart Robertson were "very happy" with the freelance musicians' past efforts. "I think Stewart liked the fact that he had musicians who liked being a pit orchestra and really came to work prepared to work hard. It's been a good relationship."

Lawrence Johnson, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, June 13, 2001

Musicians will demand an end to orchestral outsourcing as they picket the Florida Grand Opera (FGO) Superstar Concert Series debut on January 10, 2009. Musicians are asking that patrons tell the FGO that the performance of an opera should contain more than a pickup orchestra and that the orchestra belongs in-house.

Musicians will be picketing the Florida Grand Opera performance of La Traviata on November 15, 2008 to protest the fact that the orchestra of the past seven years has been replaced in its entirety.