Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2006/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music (Business) Ethics?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:33:47 -0400

These ethical issues go far beyond the music business. I have
written a book on an as yet unannounced collection of Mozart
memorabilia including portraiture and artifacts, one item of
which belongs to me. It's a long story how I got it, but I felt
obliged to say in the chapter discussing that item that I it was
my property, and to avoid the charge of giving authenticity to
something that I owned, I committed (right in the book) never to
sell the item in my lifetime, thereby preventing me from ever get
a financial reward for something on which I suggested authority.

I think that ethical issues arise every day in every phase of
human existence. The husband-wife case at hand is one such case.

There is a story about a young priest who came to a city for his
ministry. Within a few weeks he was asked to present himself to
the bishop who said, "There is talk about you and the widow
Jones."

The young priest said, "It's not true. I was only ministering to
her."

To which the bishop responded, "I didn't say that it was true. I
only said that there was talk."

That priest did not consider the ethical issues of his
ministering to the widow Jones.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:10 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Music (Business) Ethics?

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:53:06 -0700, Gary Van Cott
<gary@-----.com> wrote:

>It seems to me that to promote the work of another without
disclosing
>that a significant personal relationship exists is improper.
This is no
>reflection on the music itself.
>
>The question is what do other people think of this?
>

I have to agree with your opinion, but it's such a squishy, gray
area
that it is uncomfortable, like most squishy gray things are.

My favorite "offender" in this arena is Sy Brandon and Co-op
Press.
Every year, Co-op Press (ostensibly a publishing house) runs a
contest
in which musical groups may apply for grants to fund a commission
of a
new piece by a contemporary composer. In the fine print, we find
that
the contemporary composer must be Sy Brandon. And Co-op Press is
owned
and operated by Sy Brandon.

I admire his ingenuity -- it's a fairly clever technique for
getting
exposure, but it just seems vaguely wrong.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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