Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2001/09

From: "Lacy Schroeder" <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Marking rental music
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:47:43 -0400

Hehehe, David! I just played Pines this summer, and wow was that part
marked to death!!! I thought I was going to scream. I couldn't believe
that someone had to write all those notes out in the 2nd movt. I mean,
c'mon people!! Just play the damned thing 1/2 step lower for the low
Eb!!! I had to try to erase all sorts of gibberish, all the while trying
not to destroy the already aged paper. And plus, the paper itelf smelled
funny. Kind of like rotten eggs. I was GLAD to use a photocopy.=20

Does your part have LS '01 written on the bottom of the page of the 3rd
movt? :)=20

Lacy Schroeder

PS-I didn't write anything in the part other than that! I didn't have
to!=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HatNYC62@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:11 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Marking rental music
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> All right, I am pissed. I admit it. I wrote a post on this=20
> topic a few years=20
> ago and got little sympathy (although it baffled me at the=20
> time and still=20
> does). I will post another plea PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY RENTAL=20
> MUSIC BY MARKING=20
> IT TO DEATH!!!!
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> I just received my music for the first concert of the=20
> Princeton Symphony=20
> season, which happens to include the Pines of Rome. Someone=20
> has utterly=20
> destroyed the part (and it may be more than one person=20
> responsible) by=20
> marking something in every possible space margin, and in some=20
> cases over the=20
> music itself in the third movement. In the second movement,=20
> someone (perhaps=20
> wisely) decided to transpose to a clarinet to warm it up=20
> before the solo. How=20
> do I Know this? Because this gunius didn't bother to learn to=20
> transpose=20
> properly. He or she wrote the name of every god damn note=20
> transposition in.=20
> It is a complete outrage, especially considering that there=20
> is a large, bold=20
> warning on the front of the part stating that all markings=20
> must be made=20
> lightly and then ERASED before the music is returned.
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> So I ask again, please don't do this to rental and library=20
> music. Simply copy=20
> the part if you must mark this way. And don't start that=20
> 'it's illegal' crap.=20
> I don't want to hear it. No one will be prosecuted for=20
> copying if the copy is=20
> turned in with the part and thrown away.=20
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> Better yet, learn to play the music without marking it to=20
> death. it's not=20
> like you can read all that stuff during the concert anyway.=20
> Sorry to be so=20
> terse, but this is a major source of frustration for=20
> musicians everywhere.=20
> Perhaps others who have experienced this problem first hand=20
> will chime in?
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> David Hattner, NYC
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