On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> It took me several years to recoup the costs (as I say, it's an > electroacoustic CD with a small audience). I gave away half of them to radio > stations, etc., in hopes of scoring royalties. Never happened even though it > got a lot of plays. I have a friend who has a modern composer that did that too, and the results were just as heart breaking for him. I don't know how classical record labels (e.g. CPO in Germany or Hyperion in U.K) make any money. I entertained the idea of getting a small string ensemble together to attempt a complete recording of the Graupner string ouvertures, but I quickly dropped the idea when I started seeing what the costs were. And the odd thing is that right now, technology has made it *SO* easy to do your own recordings and editing. And while the Internet has made things more democratic, it's still a nightmare if you don't have any real distribution. Thanks for an interesting thread. Kim _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
