Yeah, I just had a little discussion with a client hiring the orchestra I play with. They wanted a local anthem arranged (7 minutes long, fer the love of Pete!) for full orchestra and 4 singers, and wanted to pay $300 for it! I asked $1000 and told them that it would be twice that (at least) under normal conditions, and they delayed a week while having meetings and working out financing before they finally came back and agreed. Perhaps they had priced it out elsewhere, too, which helped them to accept my bid. Worse would have been if they had hired a basement-studio pop guy who had only worked with sequencers and rhythm sections before, and who supplied sequencer output, untweaked, to the musicians.
I worked out afterward that what I had charged was about the equivalent of two musicians' salaries for the concert. There were 60 musicians in the orchestra! Not to mention the high-priced guest soloist, the conductor certainly didn't absorb it as part of his season's duties, and I was being screwed. Funny where they put their priorities. Christopher On Thu Dec 9, at ThursdayDec 9 3:35 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Lucky community orchestras!!! (But I have to say, as a musician I'd be > wondering how they could afford a 150K sound system but couldn't afford to > pay me!) > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Eric Dannewitz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hmm, the communities around where I live can blow money on things like a >> Meyer sound system ($150K) for their little theater......so iPads would be a >> little bump for them...... >> >> >> On Dec 9, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> >>> Most community orchestras I know don't even own their own Manhassetts, >> much >>> less being able to aford to provide iPads to the members. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
