At 1:24 PM -0700 5/28/07, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
Oh, John (Howell) -- you wily arbitrator, you!
I have absolutely no disagreement with your logic, rationalizations
or concepts. It all makes sense to me; I'll even hide raised
eyebrows resulting from the omission of touring orchestras (even
those in existence for many years with extensive concert schedules)
but easily concur with excluding festival groups.
You know, you have a point regarding touring orchestras, if there
were such, and I believe Andrew mentioned one which did visit Buffalo
on tour. I'm familiar with touring military/concert bands, of
course--Sousa, Gilmore, and the others enumerated by Harold Hill in
"76 Trombones"--and the touring jazz big bands of the '30s and '40s.
And there was clearly a time of touring choruses, from the Soviet Don
Cossacks to Robert Shaw, Norman Luboff, and others, including Fred
Waring on the non-classical side. But I'm honestly not aware of any
specific touring orchestras, assuming we can agree that such an
orchestra played repertoire typical of a fixed-location orchestra.
One thing about touring music, however, is that it tends to be a
single program (or opera, or Broadway musical, or Minstrel or
Vaudeville show) that tours, or in some cases more than one program
but still separate, complete programs (as Chanticleer does). And of
course the personnel of a touring orchestra may well change from one
tour to the next. Still, if such an orchestra were to tour under the
same conductor for continuity, and changed repertoire for subsequent
tours, it would certainly have to be recognized as a bone fide
orchestra, just not one associated with a specific town, city or
state.
OK, you win that one!! Now, name me one or more such orchestras!!!
John
--
John & Susie Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
