Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 2004/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Not really a klarinet question
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:35:07 -0400

It's not that I need the money, but rather I find more and more
often that libraries that get things for free get careless with
them. There have been a number scandals at world class libraries
with stuff getting lost, misplace, stolen, and they even know
about it. The manuscript of Don Giovanni wound up on the public
shelves due to library error.

But when a private individual gets something and pays for it, it
is invariably treasured.

Did I tell the story of the Mozart manuscript casually handled by
the famous band director at the univ. of Michigan? It's a
scandal. Give somebody something for free and they will presume
that's what it is worth.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Michlin [mailto:amichlin@-----.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:27 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Not really a klarinet question

Dan,

Imagine this Mozart fantasy:

"I have all these letters I've written to my family. I suppose I
could
donate them to a library which will safeguard them for future
generations
of researchers or I could sell them to the highest bidder and
scatter them
across the 4 corners of the world."

Aggh!

J.S. Bach did enough damage to the musicological world by hoping
his sons
would come to terms by giving the parts to one son and the scores
to the
other. I beg you to reconsider donation to the Grainger library
as an option.

Unless, of course, you need the money, which is none of my
business.

-Adam

At 11:04 AM 10/15/2004 -0700, dnleeson wrote:
>I have about a dozen letters from Percy Grainger to me from the
>years 1958 until his death in the early 1960s. I suppose I
could
>donate them to the Grainger library in Australia but I think I'd
>rather sell them. Except for one in which Percy congratulates
me
>on my forthcoming wedding, none of them are particularly
>personal. Most have music content in one way or another. All
>are in his handwriting and each carries his rubber stamp of
>address in White Plains, NY.

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