Klarinet Archive - Posting 001125.txt from 2000/12

From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] BBC Scores (Was SCAMP Members)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:58:14 -0500

Your fear might be well-founded. The BBC, some years ago, decided to clean
house and trashed many hours of the early Dr. Who series videos, only to
regret it later since they're making out very well from the sales of the
remaining shows.

Jim Hobby

>From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>

<snip>

>But on this occasion I think I would have supported him. And that reminds
me of this - - -
>I was telling someone only 2 days ago of all the light and middle of the
>road orchestrations which are still being held in the BBC music libraries,
>which are in fact all now unused. The BBC had, up to 10 years ago, several
>house light orchestras and bands, all of which are now defunct. Yet I often
>wonder about those scores. I have approached the Musician`s Union with a
>view to getting them interested, after what happened at EMI Music
>Publishing. During my tenure there, which lasted 8 years, these orchestras
>were gradually going to the wall. What did EMI do with <their> library of
>hand written scores? They incinerated them, to make room for more office
>space, then made me redundant. That`s beside the point tho`. I intend to
>follow up just what commitment the Union can sustain, as I`m sure when
>future developers discover those basement libraries of the BBC, and that
>they are holding 1000s of unused scores, someone will come up with the same
>"brainwave"!.

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