On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 12:50 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
> Bowings, well, normally it's the job of the section leaders (who get > the parts well ahead of time for that very purpose) to mark in section > bowings, then the librarian transfers them to all the parts in the > section. They get paid extra money for that. For pops concerts, I > suppose if time is short and everyone wants to maximise the rehearsal > time, pre-marked bowings would come in handy, but it would take an > experienced first chair player to do it effectively, and the expense > shouldn't come out of YOUR pocket. Unfortunately, due to the nature of this contract, they are required to submit the parts with bowing indications already on 'em. Can't say if this is now SOP for pops orchestras or the contractor for this specific project is just a bad negotiator, but that's the way things seem to have shaped up. > I can assure you that nobody who is not a violinist him/herself marks > in bowings on their arrangements. If the contractor/producer/conductor > wants the extra help (I think I would if it was me conducting), it's > not up to you to be out-of-pocket because of his whim. Well, the contractor (the band's manager) will not be conducting this stuff -- that's up to the various conductors of the various pops orchestras. > Guys like Mancini were pretty raw in the string bowing department (have > you seen his book? He says he ran the parts by his favourite concert > master, who marked them up for him. Basically, what it comes down to is this -- either (A) I take *all* of the money they have budgeted for this project and then sub-contract one of my violinist friends (and violist/cellist/bassist, if necessary) to look over my bowings to see if they make sense, or (B) I get paid a little bit less and *they* hire a violinist to mark in the bowings. (A) is much preferable, both because I can get this done more economically than they could (so I still come out further ahead), and because assignment (and the money) would go to a trusted friend and colleague rather than some random violinist. The contract itself is very generous, so I don't mind this little bit of extra hassle, especially now that I've persuaded him to forget about the whole fingering thing. - Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
