At 10:01 AM -0600 12/9/10, Robert Patterson wrote:
Another consideration for a group like an orchestra is, with everything else that can go wrong, do you really want to add network tech. support to your list of headaches when every minute of network outage during a rehearsal could cost you hundreds of dollars?
Sure, but that's true of ANY technology. If the power goes out, the lights go out. It's happened to our orchestra!!! And in a performance, not just a rehearsal. We limped through a couple of pieces with battery stand lights and flashlights, and then gave up.
And then there was the night we were playing in an old town hall in southern Indiana, across the street from the fire department, and the fire alarms went off!!!!!
But I suppose that when they had to depend on candles to read music, someone's music inevitably caught fire!! That's why Colonials put their kitchens in a separate building.
John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition of jazz musicians. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
