Klarinet Archive - Posting 000461.txt from 2010/09

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart concerto
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:28:24 -0400


I can identify with Jennifer's feeling of panic. After I had sequenced a half-dozen pieces maybe 15 years ago I went into a panic one morning wondering how to protect all the work I had done. My web page was the result of a request to the computing center at my university to maintain an archive of Finale and MIDI files. Even though I was in the Department of Chemistry, it was granted because it represented "general scholarship". It was one easy step from there to making the whole thing available on the web. So my page has always been little more than a back-up copy of what I've done at the "score" level.

Officially, the page will go away sometime this semester, but if December 31 comes and the page is still there, I'll remove the comment about it going away and proceed in the spirit of "don't ask, don't tell." Considering the efficiency with which my campus is managed, the page may remain there for decades. Asking permission to maintain it would surely be a kiss of death. This kind of thing happens to the best of institutions. John Phillip Sousa's family bequeathed all of his unpublished manuscripts and other miscellaneous materials to the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign after his death in 1932. They were stored in a couple dozen boxes in a subbasement and forgotten. Only during the last decade were they rediscovered and money was found to catalog them. The catalog listing is now available on the web, I think. Had I known, as a graduate student in chemistry there between 1961 and 1966, that his collection was lurking about somewhere it would have driven me nuts. Grad students generally amassed a collection of keys to get us into labs, storerooms and tunnels all over the place and I certainly would have found myself cruising the campus in unlikely places looking for the Sousa archives instead of doing research for my Ph.D.

Oliver

> From: helen.jennifer@-----.com
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:29:08 -0700
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Mozart concerto
>
> "...the folks...will be full of gratitude..."
>
> Yes definitely. I was hit with a feeling of panic when I saw the note
> on Dr. Seely's webpage saying that it will disappear at the end of
> this year. I have enjoyed listening to his midi files. But, alas, I
> don't appear to have the software to listen to them now, nor have I
> managed to find the Bouffil printed parts. I am not sure that I have
> ever seen music prints on Oliver Seely's web page. Unless it is like
> platform 9 and 3/4, in which case, perhaps I can find the right
> connections to get there;-)
>
> I see that something is already up on imslp:
> 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op.83 (Bruch, Max) - IMSLP ...
>
> I could just admit that I fear my knowledge of the list is very
> instinctual and perhaps a bit shallow. Yet, it is fun to take people
> at face value, even though you know differently.
>
> In addition, I hope there is good reason to retire. I have known
> quite a few professors well into their 90s who have kept their posts
> very competently until the end. Tell me if I need to complain that no
> one is correcting my chemistry, or otherwise prodding me.
>
> -Jennifer
>

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