Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-03-31 13:15
Hi Jill --
Wow! 50 performances, and you'd still do it again? That MUST be a good show.
Don't know exactly how many there will be in our orchestra -- I know she has already got violin, cello, clarinet/bc, flute, oboe/eh, trumpet, keyboard, drum set and a bass, and we don't start until the end of April, so I think she's ahead of the curve.
Yeah, reading through the score, I noted the "Gaston" piece as one that was going to have to be looked at. Geez. It's Mr. Toad's Wild Ride!
This score looks very clean, though. The note heads are comfortably large, computer-based, and the writer has used larger note divisions as a rule -- for example, I see very little smaller than 8th notes. Although the tempi will turn them into the equivalent of 16ths, it is very much easier to read them as eighths. The "Oliver" score was very dirty, by comparison -- hand transcribed with what looks to be a calligraphy pen, note heads on neither line nor space, accidentals willy-nilly, incomprehensible articulation signs (was that a trill, or did his pen slip?), multi-bar rests at the bottom of the page which were easy to miss, or sometimes just a blank bar at the bottom of the page, for no apparent reason. Some pages were crammed full of staves, others had only two -- again, for no apparent reason (i.e., not to facilitate page turns or to start a new title).
Thanks for the suggestion to listen to a CD version of it. I do, somewhere, have the movie. It was one of my favorites when my son (who will turn 28 next Friday!) was little. What a tragedy that Howard Ashman died so young! His lyrics were among the most clever and literate that I've ever heard.
Thanks for your input.
Susan
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