Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Unless, perhaps, one is trying to keep, say, a symphony orchestra in
business. It may be that a line has to be walked between educating
one's audience and providing enough literature within their comfort
zone to keep them coming to concerts. It does no one any good
Chuck Israels wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with my brother, Marc
Bauman, who is a producer for Live From Lincoln Center. He says that
there is great difficulty filling the seats at all the LC venues, and
many events are less than half full. Either few can afford the
I wasn't the only one who had problems with that statement.
I have a problem with any statement that does nothing with Finale
.. Oh I guess I became one of them now ...
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
On 28 Jan 2006 at 7:17, dhbailey wrote:
There are many more composers over the past century than just
Schoenberg. And audiences respond very favorably to many of them, if
they're just given a chance to hear the music.
While what you say is certainly true, there's an unintended knock at
On 28 Jan 2006 at 7:29, dhbailey wrote:
if the production values of
Las Vegas or Broadway are what attracts audiences and sponsorship,
then perhaps it is time to lose the tuxedo/black-tie nature of
classical music, and get orchestras to look as if they are actually
members of this century,
dhbailey wrote:
Nigel Kennedy may get glares from the blue-haired set when he steps out
in sequins and with colored, spiked hair, but the interest that he
sparks among the younger folks is amazing to see. He shows them that
classical music (both from the Classical era and also from our
On 28 Jan 2006 at 8:23, dc wrote:
How many verses can one put under a vocal line without confusing the
singer? I'm doing an Italian piece with no less than 10 verses. How
many should I keep under the music? And then, what do I do with the
others? Add the text only after the music? Repeat the
On 1/27/06, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How many verses can one put under a vocal line without confusing the
singer? I'm doing an Italian piece with no less than 10 verses. How many
should I keep under the music? And then, what do I do with the others? Add
the text only after the music? Repeat
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross says much the same thing as David Bailey:
Mozart did not come from nowhere. He was the product of a society that was avid for music on every level, that believed in the possibility of an all-encompassing musical genius.
This is Romantic codswallop. The huge
Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with my brother, Marc
Bauman, who is a producer for Live From Lincoln Center. He says that
there is great difficulty filling the seats at all the LC venues, and
many events are less than half full. Either
On Jan 27, 2006, at 3:40 PM, dhbailey wrote:
How about composers who had been dead 50 years? Did they receive
retrospective concerts? I don't think so.
Handel, at the very least.
Mozart didn't expect to have to wait for 200 years before his music
would be heard, and I think he would
Somebody called and asked me to transpose this tune into A for her by
Tuesday, and I can't. Somebody want to help?
I'm pretty sure she didn't say Stairway to Heaven.
Crystal Premo
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Perhaps I'm a throwback to an older era when people spoke more
plainly and forcefully, and did not hedge
their opinions in an attempt to disguise significant disagreement
and, I guess, avoid conflict.
David
David, you're completely deluded. While their is merit in many of your
posts, the
On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Ryan Beard wrote:
I can't wait until May 2013 when the premiers of The
Rite of Summer, The Rite of Fall, and The Rite of
Winter will occur on the first half of a concert to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of a certain piece!
One of the few pleasures of growing
On Jan 28, 2006, at 4:17 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Well, many symphonies are teetering on the brink of extinction and
they're still programming music by long-dead composers, so one
would think that rather than try to more of the same only with more
energy (which is proving to be their undoing)
That must be Gershwin's I'll build a stairway to paradise. Sorry I
can't help.
Christopher
On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Crystal Premo wrote:
Somebody called and asked me to transpose this tune into A for her by
Tuesday, and I can't. Somebody want to help?
I'm pretty sure she didn't say
Are you asking if this tune actually existed, or saying that you
can't find it anywhere, or what? I definitely remember the song
from the late 50's.
Dean
On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Crystal Premo wrote:
Somebody called and asked me to transpose this tune into A for her
by
On 28 Jan 2006 at 8:23, dc wrote:
How many verses can one put under a vocal line without confusing the
singer? I'm doing an Italian piece with no less than 10 verses. How
many should I keep under the music? And then, what do I do with the
others? Add the text only after the music? Repeat the
Brad Beyenhof wrote:
That Finalescript should read:
batch process folder
//process subdirectories
music font fontname
lock systems
note spacing
save and append _2k6
close
Next, just place all of the desired files in a folder (if some of the
files are in subfolders of that folder,
Isn't Petrucci installed by default anymore? I thought it was.
Anyway, I still have Petrucci on my system (OS X 10.4.4) and it works
fine. If for some reason it's no longer installed with the other
Finale fonts, than yes, you can just throw Petru and
Petrucci.suit into Library/Fonts (N.B.
Ken Moore,
when he wrote:
The general pessimism about the state of contemporary music being
expressed in this thread seems to me to represent a US view rather
than a world-wide one. Music in Europe has its difficulties, but some
regular series, such as the BBC Proms and the Cheltenham
On 1/27/06, David Froom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But to get to the Finalescript box, don't you have to have a
Finale file open already, and get to it through the Plugins/misc
menu?
Nope, the Finalescript Pallette is able to be opened even when no
documents are open.
One last question: since
Hi Keith,
Unfortunately I'm not writing to help you out with your question. That's
not an area of Finale I really ever use. I'm writing to point out your
appeal for help once more.
It may be that your need can't be handled in Finale (which would be somewhat
of a rarity) or that someone got
Gershwin's I'll build a stairway to paradise was written for George
White's Scandals of 1922. If it's any help, I'm sure you'll find a few
MIDI files of it if you search for them on the Internet.
Michael Cook
On 28 Jan 2006, at 20:17, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Are you asking if this tune
I too know not enough about guitar notation to give a definite answer.
However, if what you're trying to do is change individual noteheads to
diamond shapes, use the Note Shape Tool in the Special Tools palette:
double-click individual notes, or dragging to select multiple ones,
after
Precisely! I have no argument with you airing your viewpoint, some aspects
of which I totally agree with. I am merely stating that your rhetoric and/or
style of writing is oft-times offensive.
Read my posts on this thread. Not once have I said your opinions are wrong-
or unwelcome.
Maybe I'm a
Keith, unlike some of David's other remarks, this one was not
directed at any individual on this list -- that is, unless anyone
here self-identifies as someone who resists anything but the familiar.
And since basically the entire classical music establishment (and
increasingly, the jazz
On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Simon Troup wrote:
dc wrote:
How many verses can one put under a vocal line without confusing
the
singer?
--
Simon Troup said:
.3 lines of lyrics before the rest were
dumped out to Block Lyrics. That seems to work well for
Owain Sutton wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Nigel Kennedy may get glares from the blue-haired set when he steps
out in sequins and with colored, spiked hair, but the interest that he
sparks among the younger folks is amazing to see. He shows them that
classical music (both from the Classical
In a message dated 28/01/2006 18:35:59 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
contemporary music" AND France.
Certainly French radio seems to give more air time to contemporary
music than does British radio and I have enjoyed some memorable "first hearings"
during my times in France.
In a message dated 28/01/2006 18:56:38 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One of
the few pleasures of growing old is that you get to watch history at
work.
Yes, Yes, Yes!
How I wish I could convince some of my friends of the truth of this!
They told me that getting older
What is Nigel Kennedy up to nowadays? (Other than turning fifty this year, that is...)I heard him play a wonderful concert of baroque concertos at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig last spring during the Bach Festival. Fabulous performances, though I do think in some places he has pressed his fast
Thanks Don and Owain,
Actually John Knowles got back to me fairly quickly, with some ideas. I'm
curious as to why his post didn't show up, as the the first one from him
clearly had the list in the 'to' box.
All my examples are short (4 measures), so I do enjoy a certain flexibilty
in how I show
On 28 Jan 2006, at 22:40, John Howell wrote:Personal opinion: Any song with 10 verses shows lack of craft on the part of the poet, quite typical of amateurs, and needs to be either shortened or "arranged" so that you aren't repeating the same music over and over and over and over and ... There
My experience is that singers get confused even if there's only one
verse. Better to put the solo part on a saxophone instead.
Cheers,
Lawrence
"þaes
ofereode - þisses swa maeg"http://lawrenceyates.co.ukDulcian
Wind Quintet: http://dulcianwind.co.uk
At 1:02 PM -0500 1/28/06, Crystal Premo wrote:
Somebody called and asked me to transpose this tune into A for her
by Tuesday, and I can't. Somebody want to help?
I'm pretty sure she didn't say Stairway to Heaven.
Transposing is your job; providing you the sheet music is hers.
I understand
You might want to check musicnotes.com
http://www.musicnotes.com/
They have a song, called I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise by Gershwin.
You can print it out, and even put it in different keys. All for a
couple of bucks.
John Howell wrote:
At 1:02 PM -0500 1/28/06, Crystal Premo wrote:
Title: Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday
Mozart
At 1:29 PM -0500 1/28/06, Andrew Stiller wrote:
New Yorkermusic critic Alex
Ross says much the same thing as David Bailey:
Mozart did not come from nowhere. He was
the product of a society that was avid for music on every level, that
believed in
At 11:25 PM + 1/28/06, Owain Sutton wrote:
John Howell wrote:
(Academic: A composer who earns a living teaching because s/he
cannot write music that earns a living, but argues that any music
that sells is a sellout.)
A thoroughly unfair stereotype. Most composers I know who are in
At 6:42 PM -0500 1/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My experience is that singers get confused even if there's only one
verse. Better to put the solo part on a saxophone instead.
Now that's not fair!! They only get confused if that verse is in a language.
John
--
John Susie Howell
I understand that one can now purchase CDs with hundreds or thousands
of songs as PDFs, but I don't know where.
Look at:
http://www.cdsheetmusic.com/
It is a fantastic resouce. For example, the complete Bach Gesselschaft
(18,000 pages) for $80.
Richard Yates
John Howell wrote:
At 6:42 PM -0500 1/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My experience is that singers get confused even if there's only one
verse. Better to put the solo part on a saxophone instead.
Now that's not fair!! They only get confused if that verse is in a
language.
And sax
At 5:10 PM -0800 1/28/06, Richard Yates wrote:
I understand that one can now purchase CDs with hundreds or thousands
of songs as PDFs, but I don't know where.
Look at:
http://www.cdsheetmusic.com/
It is a fantastic resouce. For example, the complete Bach Gesselschaft
(18,000 pages) for
On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:28 PM, John Howell wrote:
Glad to have that site. I was thinking more of pop songs like the
Gershwin under discussion, but classical repertoire could be useful
as well. I do see one problem: piano-vocal scores, but no parts
available. And of course no full
What the person is looking is someone to take the piano/vocal of Stairway To
Paradise, which we both have, and transpose the piano/vocal into the key of
A by Tuesday, January 31st. I can't do it for her, and so I am posting it
on this list to see, as I have in the past, if there is anyone with
Like I posted before, Musicnotes.com. They have it, and you can have it
printed in whatever key. For like $4.
Crystal Premo wrote:
What the person is looking is someone to take the piano/vocal of
Stairway To Paradise, which we both have, and transpose the
piano/vocal into the key of A by
In a message dated 1/28/2006 4:29:55 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That might help audiences of today feel more relaxed about orchestral
music the way that audiences of 200 years ago felt. Not a stodgy
presentation to be listened to in rapt silence, but rather an event to
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