On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Rupert Swarbrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
> <[email protected]> writes:
>> Tere hommikust MB-Style!
>>
>> What would people think about merging the conductor and choirmaster
>> rels into one, "conducted [choir/orchestra]"? I've found choirmasters
>> credited as conductors many times in MB, and that is basically because
>> both names are used for them! (Naxos, for example, use always
>> conductor in their website). So merging them, with all the current
>> choirmasters becoming "choir conductor" / "conducted choir", and all
>> the current conductors becoming just "conductor" / "conducted" (or
>> maybe the script could check if there's an orchestra and no choir in
>> the recording, and use "orchestra conductor" / "conducted orchestra"
>> in that case) would be nice IMO. Thoughts? Praise? Insults?
>
> Well, I'm pretty ambivalent about merging the two, but I understand
> where you're coming from. However, I'd suggest that we make it
> "conducted" by default, and allow the editor to add a flag to say it's a
> choral conductor. Since most relationships will be orchestral
> conductors, it seems silly to add to the work required to add the usual
> AR.
That might be true, but doing it the way I say gives two advantages.
It makes it easier to indicate the cases where someone conducted both
the orchestra and the choir ("conducted choir and orchestra" instead
of "conducted" and "conducted choir") and avoids getting any wrong
relationships created by the script that merges them. Also, if someone
just knows that person X is a conductor but doesn't know if he
conducted orchestra or choir, he'll have a way to say "conducted"
without specifying more (for example, if he's just following the liner
notes of a release that just says "conductor" for a choral one).
> Rupert
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