Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2001/09

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Marking rental music
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:26:00 -0400

Amen!!! But it is fun to see the signatures on the last page of a show
book of who had played the same book.

GaryT

HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:
>
> 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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