Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-24 Thread dhbailey
Blake Richardson wrote: On 22 Aug 2009 at 12:19, David Fenton wrote: What you get from New Yorkers is no nonsense, no chitchat, no false courtesy. As well as an amazing variety of profanity mixed in for good measure. I love generalizations. -- David H. Bailey

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.08.2009 Daniel Wolf wrote: But the most immediate concern is that I just got a set of parts returned from a major European radio orchestra. They are completely marked-up, with bowings and much more. Should the orchestra have cleaned them up? Should I erase all of these marks, or

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-23 Thread Blake Richardson
On 22 Aug 2009 at 12:19, David Fenton wrote: What you get from New Yorkers is no nonsense, no chitchat, no false courtesy. As well as an amazing variety of profanity mixed in for good measure. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-23 Thread Carl Dershem
Blake Richardson wrote: On 22 Aug 2009 at 12:19, David Fenton wrote: What you get from New Yorkers is no nonsense, no chitchat, no false courtesy. As well as an amazing variety of profanity mixed in for good measure. Everyone needs a hobby. :) cd --

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-23 Thread noel jones
And usually !...@#$ unoriginal. David, living there, may, like most NY'ers, become so used to it that it disappears. Noel Jones, AAGO 423 887-7594 noeljo...@usit.net www.thecatholichymnal.com Friends, life is short and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Aug 2009 at 19:13, Blake Richardson wrote: On 22 Aug 2009 at 12:19, David Fenton wrote: What you get from New Yorkers is no nonsense, no chitchat, no false courtesy. As well as an amazing variety of profanity mixed in for good measure. Well, that entirely depends on which New

RE: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread Patrick Sheehan
) patricksheehanmu...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Daniel Wolf [mailto:djw...@online.de] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:44 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be? I need some collective wisdom from the Finale list about

RE: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread John Howell
At 12:19 PM -0500 8/21/09, Patrick Sheehan wrote: You should contact Music Theatre International (MTI.com) (a musical rental company) and find out what they charge for a school or professional company. Or Rodgers Hammerstein Theatricals www.rnhtheatricals.com or Tams-Witmark

RE: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread shirling neueweise
i seem to remember having come across catalogues online with rental prices but all the catalogues i saved back when looking at this same sort of thing are without rental prices listed... but maybe i am remembering having access to prices through a job i had in an arts library. i remember

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread shirling neueweise
also, i have never heard of clean up charges actually being applied, although i'm sure sometimes they are. i think the pricing is used to encourage the body renting the parts to return them free of markings under the threat of exorbitant clean up fees if the publisher has to do it.

RE: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread Lora Crighton
--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Patrick Sheehan patricksheehanmu...@gmail.com wrote: Call them up and ask for their librarian or musicologist; the receptionist people don't like long explanations; they WILL hang up on you (part of the rude population of NYC). They have musicologists - tell me more.

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:00 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: i remember not seeing any example of parts costing more than 1000 (eur/usd) to rent. this price ceiling is what large-scale opera and some major orchestral works will cost. there can be 2nd performance (75%) and even 3rd performance

RE: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread Lee Actor
i remember not seeing any example of parts costing more than 1000 (eur/usd) to rent. this price ceiling is what large-scale opera and some major orchestral works will cost. there can be 2nd performance (75%) and even 3rd performance (50%) discounts within a certain timeframe (a

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-21 Thread Christopher Smith
I'm not sure anyone is going to get any useful information about CONCERT music rates from a company specialising in GRAND RIGHTS, which typically run 2 to 4 times as much as concert rights, or even more. Rodgers and Ham charge way more than other companies, because they can. I would call

[Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel Wolf
I need some collective wisdom from the Finale list about a practical publishing matter. The modest publishing cooperative I belong to has recently begun renting sets of orchestral parts. I'm completely new to this and many of the trade practices are all very mysterious to me and my

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 8/20/2009 6:43 PM, Daniel Wolf wrote: bargaining position vis a vis the publishers.) But the most immediate concern is that I just got a set of parts returned from a major European radio orchestra. They are completely marked-up, with bowings and much more. Should the orchestra have cleaned

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-20 Thread dhbailey
Daniel Wolf wrote: I need some collective wisdom from the Finale list about a practical publishing matter. The modest publishing cooperative I belong to has recently begun renting sets of orchestral parts. I'm completely new to this and many of the trade practices are all very mysterious