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Beethoven in the Bin

Author: Nelson
Date: 2021-12-05 14:58

Hi,

Slightly away from clarinet specific topics but recently, I started looking after the presidential duties of our community orchestra following the passing of our long-standing president.

Over 30 years we have accumulated eight four-drawer, nearly full filing cabinets of scores/parts. We are running out of room and we have to move the lot.

May I ask how non-professional orchestras are approaching the question of
'is it worth *storing* public domain music?' with much non-copyright repertoire symphonies overtures suites etc readily available on the www. I am encouraging 'the player prints their own part' approach when a work is chosen for an outing saving us money copying. Looking at one example, we recently played Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' and back into the filing cabinet it goes for another five years...taking up much needed drawer space (11cm for one work) and so on through the classical/romantic periods. The reason for moving is that the property is required for other council purposes and they have suggested scanning the holding and retaining on external hard drive but our parts are battle-scarred and it's just not possible to scan the lot with pages stuck together, torn etc. And why scan standard rep and available non-cop parts now anyway. Some players are moving to tablet but a minority.

The slightly painful part is chucking out the old hard copies of these great works...some containing fingerings, emphasised repeats, etc. We used to hold (pre IMSLP) our own personal copies at home but for some reason that approach was abandoned...I believe lost parts came into it.

Have others gone through any kind of culling process?

Thank you

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