At 10:57 PM -0800 1/12/10, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:52 PM, John Howell wrote:
You can ask the publisher, but you KNOW what they'll say!!!
The publisher is Kalmus with no copyright notice, so you know what THAT means!
Are we still on the Peter the Wolf thread? (Sorry; I've
On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:59 AM, John Howell wrote:
Are we still on the Peter the Wolf thread?
No, I'm talking about my Shostakovich preludes. I'm pretty sure I
know what happened. In the 1970s, they were unprotected, so Kalmus
printed them up (but didn't claim it as its own). Now, I
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
I'm not sure there is standard practice. The two std. rep. pieces
for orchestra with narration that come to mind are Peter and the Wolf
and Mendelssohn's MIdsummer Night's Dream. The Prokofiev includes the
entire narration in the score, as I
As far as I know, Peter and the Wolf is back under protection.
Evidence of that is that Dover made some of their Prokofiev orchestral
scores unavailable (glad I already had a copy).
You can check the ASCAP website for a list of restored works. It's up
to you to figure out whether the work
At 6:02 PM -0800 1/12/10, Mark D Lew wrote:
What's the story on Russian copyrights? I remember that a lot of
20th century Russian works were in the public domain long before
they otherwise would have been, on account of the fact that the
United States did not recognize Soviet copyrights.
I
On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:52 PM, John Howell wrote:
You can ask the publisher, but you KNOW what they'll say!!!
The publisher is Kalmus with no copyright notice, so you know what
THAT means!
No date either, but based on the vendor name stamped inside I know I
bought it no later than 1984.
