Yup, don't you love the economy and stuff......
On Dec 9, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
