Klarinet Archive - Posting 001279.txt from 1998/03

From: DAVID NADEN <dnaden@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Urgent Plea
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:39:53 -0500

Come on Fred. You have had many years of experience and know that part of most--if
not all--rental agreements state that marked music is to be erased prior to its
return. Yes, the musician who marked-up the part should be blamed, but more
importantly, the musical director (conductor, coordinator, or whoever ordered the
rental piece) should be blamed for his/her irresponsibility for not returning the
rented music in good order.

I recently finished a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe, and I had to
mark the part to reflect cuts, deletion of repeats, etc. During the last
performance, several of the orchestra members--including myself--spent intermission,
and time between musical numbers erasing marks so that the parts could be returned
in good order. Simply put, it was our responsibility, as we marked the parts in the
first place.

David S. Naden, Graduate Student
Cal State University Los Angeles
Fred Jacobowitz wrote:

> Why ever are you blaming the person who marked the part? IT IS THE
> RESPONSIBILITY OF THE OWNER OF THE MUSIC (WHO IS RENTING IT) TO CLEAN UP
> THE SCORE BEFORE RE-RENTING IT!!!!! If you have a beef, take it up with
> the crooks who are charging obscene amounts of money for a badly prepared,
> poorly maintained score. Musicians should mark whatever they need to mark-
> BUT ALWAYS IN PENCIL so it can be erased.
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
> Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Hat NYC 62 wrote:
>
> > To all of you who play rental orchestral parts:
> >
> > This should be obvious, but please don't mark rental parts with anything but
> > the most necessary items. This evening I went to a rehearsal and discovered
> > someone had previously marked the rental bass clarinet part I was playing. The
> > person had written in note names above every bass clef note. This was annoying
> > by itself, but to make it worse, the note names were all WRONG. The person
> > must have thought it was bass clarinet in C or something. What the last
> > performance of the piece sounded like, I don't know, but the person didn't
> > erase the markings in any case. This kind of thing seems to happen at least
> > half the time I get a rental part.
> >
> > So I plead with you, if you are the type of player who must mark every breath,
> > every time the conductor changes the pattern, note names in transposition,
> > etc. COPY THE PART AND USE THE COPY. No one else can benefit from your
> > markings and the parts become impossible to read after a while.
> >
> > Thank you for your attention.
> >