A tricky situation indeed. While on the topic, what Band publishers
are presently accepting submissions?
Dean
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:25 AM, dhbailey wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very often in school bands there's an unspoken requirement that
everyone
be playing most of the time to keep them occupied. When I wrote my
first
wind ensemble piece my intent was NOT to write yet another John
Cacavas-type excursion into razzle-dazzle, I was roundly
criticized for
not having everyone playing all the time. Can't please everyone.
Indeed -- that's always been the composer's nightmare. How to find
some path between the extremes on the one hand of writing exactly
what you want to hear and expecting to hear exactly what you wrote
and on the other hand of writing music which larger numbers of
people will purchase and perform.
It's a very tricky situation, and one that composers have always
had to navigate carefully. John Cacavas sold an awful lot of band
music. His arrangements have something for everyone and doublings/
cues for those situations when the originally desired instrument
for a passage isn't available. I would be that every high school
and most community and university band libraries have several John
Cacavas works. He knew how to write what people wanted to play.
Same for James Swearingen in more modern days.
--
David H. Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Dean M. Estabrook
http://deanestabrook.googlepages.com/home
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
