At 12:37 PM -0500 2/21/07, Phil Daley wrote:
It seems to me that a big problem is with performance managers using canned music instead of live performers.
This discussion is actually active on a different list, but the person voicing the complaints against "too much music all day long" is trying to stamp out Muzak-like background music. I agree, of course, since I happen to be a live musician, but once recording became possible it also became inevitable.
Also, the cutting back of a 20 person group, to a 5 person group.
Our annual summer musical does a lot of classic shows, with full orchestra, thank you! But it helps that it's an all-volunteer operation and we have the artistic incentive to fill all the orchestra chairs instead of trying to cut back.
But, maybe you guys are making money on rearranging the 20 person score to sound good with a 5 person score ;-)
Actually I knew someone who was involved in something similar. When I was in the USAF Band, there was a singer in the Singing Sergeants who had a beautiful tenor voice, and when he got out he got a job as a singer and assistant conductor with Fred Waring. Waring's original Pennsylvanians were 16 male singers, to which he added 3 women at some point. Waring decided to cut back to 12 male singers, which meant that all the well known arrangements had to be rewritten because sometimes the 16 singers were singing 16 different parts! My friend (whose name completely escapes me over 40 years later) did most of the rearranging.
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