On Wed Oct 31, at WednesdayOct 31 10:53 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Any composer working in the United States writing for orchestra needs to be > absolutely, acutely aware of what types of notation are most easily read at > sight, because you're never going to get everyone to check out the parts in > advance. (If even 25% of the players do, it's a minor miracle!)
I have to step in here. Maybe standards are different in the States, but around here ALL the string players HAVE to check out the parts beforehand, and if the woodwind players don't they take their lives in their hands. This applies not only to the Montreal Symphony, but even in the secondary orchestras, like the one I play in. Even the brass players look over the concert repertoire (that they get two weeks ahead of time by union agreement) to see if there's anything they have to practice, and anything that's unusually-notated definitely gets some woodshed time. Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
