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Author: GBK
Date: 2009-06-17 17:04
Attachment: The Song of Songs 1.jpg (51k)
I recently got called to play in a freelance orchestra for a summer choral festival.
The music just arrived, and the program will be the Brahms Requiem, Brahms Nänie, and a piece which I had never played (or heard of), "The Song of Songs" by Lukas Foss.
Playing through the Foss piece today, I had to laugh, because it looks like Stanley Drucker knows it and has played it, since his signature is on the last page of the part.
I guess after 60+ years of orchestral playing, there is very little he hasn't played ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
...GBK
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-06-17 17:57
How cool!
You know, often with rental parts I wonder whose hands the part has been in before . . .
. . . because some people write so hard I can't erase their marks.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-06-17 20:47
This is not uncommon. I've read that one member of the Budapest Quartet signed and dated his part after every performance (even though the quartet owned the music).
Ken Shaw
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Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-06-17 21:53
I think it was in 1989 that I played in the orchestra for a performance in Melbourne (Australia) of the Koussevitzky double bass concerto.
He'd played that too.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-06-17 22:12
They rent out handwritten score? Is that common?
Well, at least it's legible.
--
Ben
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2009-06-17 22:59
I got to play from the Richard Rodgers "Air Power" handwritten clarinet part (copyist or orchestrator part, I guess).
It never took off (sic) like "Victory at Sea."
Nonetheless, I was thrilled to have the part that was signed in pencil "A. Gigliotti."
No, I didnt sign it myself....figured it would be presumptous.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: David Niethamer
Date: 2009-06-18 02:49
Over my years in the Richmond Symphony, I saw many rental parts "autographed" by Drucker.
David
niethamer@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/index.html
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-06-18 15:30
tictactux wrote:
<<They rent out handwritten score? Is that common?
Well, at least it's legible.>>
It's not uncommon. Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes has handwritten parts, for example. When I used to play in the orchestra pit for musicals in high school, our parts were typically hand-written. All of those were rental parts, of course.
On our last concert, we played a piece (also a rental) by William Grant Still that was written on a music typewriter. The parts were purple mimeograph. (at least mine was; Paul's looked like it was a photocopy of a purple mimeograph) I later did a little reading about the composer and discovered that the music typewriter belonged to the composer, who typed out his own parts and scores. In fact, here's a picture of him at work at his typewriter.
It actually makes sense to me that you would see handwritten parts more often with rental pieces, because with rental pieces the publisher doesn't need to print thousands of copies. Thus, it makes little sense for them to prepare a fancy engraved copy.
Post Edited (2009-06-18 15:41)
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2009-06-18 17:19
Allan Segal wrote:
>> Nonetheless, I was thrilled to have the part that was signed in pencil "A. Gigliotti." No, I didnt sign it myself....figured it would be presumptuous.>>
A consideration that didn't occur to him, clearly;-)
Tony
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