Klarinet Archive - Posting 000177.txt from 2009/11
From: "John Gates" <cadenza@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Musicians Protest use of canned music...by Texas Ballet Theatre...in the new multi-million dollar Winspear Hall
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:12:52 -0500
Same thing here in San Bernardino CA, 24 years a Nutcracker with an =
orchestra (San Bernardino Symphony), I'm the contractor and a =
clarinetist, then this year they went to taped music. Prior to this for =
about the last 5 years we, along with Los Angeles and Orange County =
productions, were the only So California productions to use orchestra. =
Finally, raising the money for a tiny 33 piece orchestra, was simply too =
much. Sad
John Gates
-----Original Message-----
From: Forest Aten [mailto:forestaten@-----.com]=20
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 9:37 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Musicians Protest use of canned music...by Texas =
Ballet Theatre...in the new multi-million dollar Winspear Hall
Great idea Nancy....but these creeps went to China....paid out $30,000 =
to record their entire season....and replaced the Ft. Worth =
Symphony...and the Dallas Opera Orchestra...for a CD.
It was funny last night. One of the very cool Dallas Police officers =
said, "gee, I'm not so hot on protests....but the thought of having the =
City of Dallas traveling to China, paying for a police department, =
releasing the "real" police force...then receiving a box of cardboard =
cutouts from China, the City can prop up on street corners, who look =
like "real" police officers......isn't such a good thought".
-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Buckman [mailto:eefer@-----.com]=20
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 9:42 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Musicians Protest use of canned music...by Texas =
Ballet Theatre...in the new multi-million dollar Winspear Hall
Personal recompense for every musician in the recordings, from now on, =
wuold go a long way towards stopping=20
this. There is NO Nutcracker without the music!
Nancy
Nancy Buckman
AACC Symphony
Opera AACC
Early Music Society of Northern MD
eefer@-----.com
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