At 07:05 PM 6/3/2003, John Howell wrote:
>All quite true, and for a very simple reason. All the classic shows
>(at least after WW II) were recorded for release on LP. A 12" LP
>holds 15 minutes per side comfortably, up to perhaps 30 minutes if an
>engineer monitors the mastering very carefully.
At 06:18 PM 6/3/2003, John Howell wrote:
>This summer we have a 2 CD recording of "King &
>I" that can be directly choreographed to, a major timesaver. And
>every time a company mounts one of these shows, they're going to sell
>a lot of CDs to members of the company.
Unless, of course, a regional
At 08:23 AM 6/3/2003, Taris L Flashpaw wrote:
>I've had this experience too, but not a rather pleasant one. It was about
>five years ago, when I was in high school. We were performing "Anything
>Goes" (the Cole Porter musical). Great show, but our dancers were learning
>from the CD recording which
At 01:30 AM 6/3/2003, Ray Horton wrote:
>Ah yes - "Play it like the record"...
Better: "Play it *exactly* like the record. Except we really would like it
just a shade faster here and maybe a hair slower here and not so choppy
here"
>"And there's a big _scratch_ coming up, in a few bars."
Br
Ah yes - "Play it like the record"...
Years ago (before CDs became the norm) we had a ballet conductor say in
rehearsal "I hate doing it, but the record the ballet company has been using
has a big corny ritard right here ..."
I got a nice laugh when I continued, from my chair in the trombone sect
