Hi John For some reason your emails always come through, to me at least, dated a few weeks behind the actual date, putting them well down the list of current topics.
Maybe it's just the email application I use, but your last post was dated Fri, Dec 31, 2004 04:42 am! One of the mailservers seems to be responsible as looking at the email headers I found this ... ------- Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBV4dwAh025381 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:40:03 -0500 Received: from [10.0.1.4] (68-232-96-62.chvlva.adelphia.net [68.232.96.62]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id CII91720 (AUTH jhowell); Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:42:42 -0500 (EST) ------- Simon Troup > I agree completely. Another trick, although I don't know whether > musical theater shows are ever done this way (but I know for a fact > that some Contemporary Christian shows and ice shows are because I've > sat where I could watch the musicians) is to have the orchestra > pre-recorded in such a way that the audio mixist can blend in the > sounds of however many live musicians that union local requires. > Apparently it's economically viable to do this, even with the cost of > the recording sessions, because it's being done. Ballet companies > are feeling the pinch, too, big time. > > [One of my favorite true stories. In the early 1960s my quartet, > "The Four Saints," was playing at The Padded Cell in Minneapolis (a > real dive, but we were young and dumb, and working our way up the > ladder). The owner also promoted concerts, and since this was the > days when folk groups were really hot, he booked the Limelighters for > a concert. Enter the AFofM, with a call from the secretary of the > local to inform him that the auditorium he had booked had a 12-man > minimum, whether they played or not. He argued, and pointed out that > the Limelighters were a self-contained trio and were union members > themselves, but it did no good. "All right," he finally told the > union secretary,"I'll need 12 English horns. Have them there for > rehearsal at 1 pm." Since there probably weren't 12 English horns in > the state of Minnesota, that was the end of that!] > > Which is just to point out that the problem isn't anything new. What > to do? "Is" (as the King says) "a puzzlement!" > > John > > -- > John & Susie Howell > Virginia Tech Department of Music _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
