Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2006/09

From: "Doug Potter" <doug@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music (Business) Ethics?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:20:31 -0400

The two married people are Martin Ellerby and Linda Merrick?

And what is the question? Whether you should sell this piece or whether you
should point out the composer is married to the person the piece was written
for when you sell it?

Doug
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:05 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Music (Business) Ethics?

Here is a question for you. I am mostly about selling music (books and
CDs) and try to avoid offending anyone who is a potential customer.

Recently someone asked me to get the Martin Ellerby Clarinet Concerto
(for clarinet and wind band; there is a piano reduction) which was
written for Linda Merrick (UK). In the course of looking for
information on this and tracking down the publisher and distributor, I
came across a three page article in The Clarinet about this piece by
Merrick (Vol 31, No. 2. March 2004, page 6). There is also some cross
promotion on their respective web sites.

What none of these sources say is that they are married to each other
(according to the Philip Sparke web site). Now I expect this is
probably well known in the UK, but it seems somewhat disingenuous for a
Clarinet magazine article published in the US not to mention this.
Nothing is mentioned about this in the notes to the concerto, either.

Gary
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