On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:14 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
hi, recently a german orchestra refused to use the parts that i had
prepared for them, claiming they didn't meet the laws on minimum size.
it must be said that they were looking for pretty much any excuse not
to play the piece in fact, and they found one in this law! the
festival director worked it out in the end , and apparently the very
elegant and well-bound cream-coloured 100g parts i used went in the
trash or something and were replaced with photocopies.
...
i can't do anything to avoid things like the violist who stuck a white
cloth on the tip of his bow and waved it above his head like a flag
during the single run-through dress rehearsal, but i want to try and
avoid having materials i spent time and money on being trashed in the
future, if i can.
any suggestions?
This is just the way orchestras treat composers. It is shameful, but
there is little to do about it except to secure full payment in
advance.
John Cage once described the New York Philharmonic as "a bunch of
gangsters without shame," apparently w. considerable justification--so
this sort of thing isn't restricted to Germany.
I know, too, that the Philadelphia Orchestra has very strict rules
about the dimensions, paper, margins, you name it, of composers'
extracted parts--rules they wouldn't dare try to enforce against Kalmus
or Luck's.
As far as Germany goes, I recently sent a set of parts there (folded
double sheets, 11" X 17", quarter-inch margins, staple bound) for use
by the Rheinland-Pfalz orchestra in a recording project, and got no
complaints whatsoever--probably because a) the recording company was
footing the bill and b) the composer was a dead white male.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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