Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2002/09

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: purchasing band or orchestra music
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:10:16 -0400

Nanci,

If I read your message the right way, you want to buy a complete set of
music for Scheherezade for students at your local high school to play. If
you are looking for the original piece, which may well be too difficult for
a high school orchestra to play, Edwin F. Kalmus, which is part of Belwin, I
think, has it. (P.O. Box 5011, Boca Raton, FL 33431 (561)241-6340).

If you are interested in arrangements intended to be more playable at any of
several school band or orchestra levels, Kalmus (or Luck's, which has a lot
of the same music Kalmus has) won't help. The largest national supplier of
school-oriented music is J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc. They have an outlet in
Tacoma, WA, but the best way to order is either online (www.jwpepper.com) or
by phone (1-800-345-6296). Their phone operators can help a great deal if
you don't know exactly what you're looking for, and they can have music
shipped from any of their outlets and warehouses nationwide. They have
pretty nearly everything intended for school use in stock somewhere in their
system, and you can usually get delivery within a couple of days.

Even if you're very familiar with the performing level of the group you want
to donate to, I would suggest doing this in cooperation (consultation) with
the ensemble director. He may have regular contact with a more local
supplier who may offer discounts (Pepper doesn't). Also, he may have a
preference as to composition and (if applicable) arranger and may not be
comfortable with your choice if you make one on your own.

Best of luck.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nanci ashley [mailto:nanjaymar@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:00 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re: purchasing band or orchestra music
>
>
> This should be very simple, but I can't seem to type the right
> words to find
> what I want (doing web searches).
>
> Is there a place on-line to order music for the entire orchestra
> or band? I
> keep getting individual parts or the score but no actual "entire" group
> arrangements.
>
> I know that there are many directors on this list who probably do
> this all
> the time.
>
> I'm specifically looking for full orchestration for Scheherazade. I can
> probably get what I really want by just purchasing the score, but I have
> this hope that I can donate it and have the high school actually
> play part
> of it (they played music from The Nutcracker last year).
>
> And, you probably can't tell from my e-mail, I live in Seattle
> and already
> have purchased tickets to THEIR (the Seattle Symphony) performance later
> this year.
>
> THANKS,
> Nanci
>
>
>
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