To the Rescue This Year: The People Who Put Orchestras Online Across the country, fall concerts were saved by staff whose work shifted rapidly from promotional videos to high-quality broadcasts. Brandon Cardley, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s video engineer, used to film performances for promotional materials. Now, with concerts happening only online, the stakes of his job are higher than ever.Credit...Aram Boghosian Dec. 17, 2020 As recently as March, Brandon Cardley’s work as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s video engineer was largely limited to small projects, like cutting clips of concerts for social media and marketing materials. But once the coronavirus pandemic’s spread started to cancel performances through summer and fall, then winter and spring, his job suddenly looked a lot different.