On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Christopher Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd hazard a guess that John plays a lot of original orchestrations, while > Eric plays a lot of remounts or reduced orchestrations, which have been > re-arranged for a smaller band. Even transpositions would be done these days > on computer, but these wouldn't necessarily find their way back to the rental > agency. I know because I did a couple of these myself. You'd think the rental > agency would want some nice clean parts done for a small band that might > enhance the chances the show would be rented again, but no, they tend to > leave those things up to the renters. Um, no. For example I just got done doing Cinderella....the company rented out parts and it included books for a 20 piece orchestra. Full string section. Etc. It was all computer notated. Pretty sure it was the real thing.....I mean, it came right from MTI.....so the idea that they are not redoing their libraries but rather photocopying the handwritten stuff seems to be disproven. > > The weirdest thing was that when I spoke to them on the phone, they refused > to furnish full scores, and told me that the terms of the agreement prevented > me from making ANY changes at all to the music in any way! I pointed out to > him that the producer had a signed contract with all the terms laid out, > which included him commissioning a re-orchestration of the show for a smaller > band. I also knew for a fact that they had several different versions of some > of the tunes in different keys, because the official first-run version of the > show had different actors with different ranges from night to night, but I > couldn't get them to give me THOSE, either! I ended up working from 16 or so > open parts books laid in a big semicircle around my desk. I also didn't hand > over my re-orchestrations when the run was finished, and they never asked. That is interesting. I can't think of any shows I've done lately that we played 100% everything in the book as written. Maybe this production of urinetown I did last year....I think. This year all the productions ive been in have been hacked up big time, mainly to shrink the size of the orchestra because of money issues. Though I did play Aladdin where the company was supposed to get the new adult version that they are working on, but supposedly it got delayed....so they asked for and got permission from disney to make changes to the jr. Version. And the jr. Versions original arranger actually went to one of the performances......kinda cool..... > > Christopher > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
