Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2011/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] West Side Story (not Clarinet-related)
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:40:40 -0500

With apologies for a completely off-topic question:

One of the orchestras that I play in, Delaware Valley Philharmonic, is
planning to include in its next concert several of the songs from West Side
Story, sung by soloists from the Westminster Choir College accompanied by
the orchestra. We've planned to rent the orchestrations used in the Broadway
productions. As the orchestra's librarian I've been trying to find the
source for the orchestrations. I've been told by MTI, which handles the
performing rights for productions of the complete show, that it doesn't rent
materials for individual selections, that those are (the person who answered
my query said *are*, not might be) available through Boosey & Hawkes. All I
can find on the B&H website are selections for sale of a few of the songs
with piano accompaniment, the usual medleys for band and the parts for the
Symphonic Dances from WSS, as well as a couple of vocal scores of the
complete show and a full score of Bernstein's final revision of the
orchestrations made for the DGG recording with Kiri Te Kanawa, Jos=E9
Carreras, etc...

I have emailed Boosey's information address and have so far not gotten any
reply or acknowledgement, although I'm still hoping for something directly
from them.

I'm hoping someone here (or on the BB, where I will also post this) has had
experience with this and can confirm that the materials are definitely
available or are not available, and if they are, where and how they can be
gotten.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Karl

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