Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2001/09

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Marking rental music
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:10:53 -0400

All right, I am pissed. I admit it. I wrote a post on this topic a few years
ago and got little sympathy (although it baffled me at the time and still
does). I will post another plea PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY RENTAL MUSIC BY MARKING
IT TO DEATH!!!!

I just received my music for the first concert of the Princeton Symphony
season, which happens to include the Pines of Rome. Someone has utterly
destroyed the part (and it may be more than one person responsible) by
marking something in every possible space margin, and in some cases over the
music itself in the third movement. In the second movement, someone (perhaps
wisely) decided to transpose to a clarinet to warm it up before the solo. How
do I Know this? Because this gunius didn't bother to learn to transpose
properly. He or she wrote the name of every god damn note transposition in.
It is a complete outrage, especially considering that there is a large, bold
warning on the front of the part stating that all markings must be made
lightly and then ERASED before the music is returned.

So I ask again, please don't do this to rental and library music. Simply copy
the part if you must mark this way. And don't start that 'it's illegal' crap.
I don't want to hear it. No one will be prosecuted for copying if the copy is
turned in with the part and thrown away.

Better yet, learn to play the music without marking it to death. it's not
like you can read all that stuff during the concert anyway. Sorry to be so
terse, but this is a major source of frustration for musicians everywhere.
Perhaps others who have experienced this problem first hand will chime in?

David Hattner, NYC

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