Oh yes--I had an execrable treatment from a no-longer-extant Kansas City Orchestra--I paid them close to $4000 for a performance and in return I was barred from rehearsals and had my work cut to shreds. 30 minutes before dress rehersal I got a lecture from the conductor as to how I couldn't insist they play what I wrote without considering their feelings on the matter. Interesting how the Czech orchestra that recorded the piece the preceding year had no techincal or personal integrity problems with the piece.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Stiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <finale@shsu.edu> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] parts - german laws > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
