Aaron - you've already done it. Think of how you've tried to pique <our> interest in coming up with a 'sales' strategy for van Wasenaer.
(Quoting you:) "Who's that, you say? Well for over 200 years his work was variously ascribed to Pergolesi, Handel, and the original publisher, Carlo Ricciotti." That's enough to make me want to seek out his music. I'd like to hear more unknown music good enough to have been thought to be Handel's. And I'd think it would be an intriguing way to then sell that music to one's audience. "Listen to the XX Concert Band play the music of van Wasenaer - and then you decide! Good enough to have been a great master?" The 'new discovery' of an old master ploy...perhaps that's a way to sell your transcription to band directors. Best, Les Les Marsden (209) 966-6988 New Cell: (559) 708-6027 7145 Snyder Creek Road Mariposa, CA 95338-9641 Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:52 PM Subject: [Finale] OT: how to sell an unkown composer? I am currently preparing some program notes for a transcription that is about to be published of a Concertino by Unico Willem Graf van Wasenaer. Who's that, you say? Well for over 200 years his work was variously ascribed to Pergolesi, Handel, and the original publisher, Carlo Ricciotti. My question to the group is, how do you got about convincing band directors to try this composer that they've likely never heard of? (Don't know how the "illustrious hand" ascription that worked in 1740 would go over in 2008.) Does anyone have any examples of houw to do this? Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
