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oh my bog....
Apr. 23rd, 2022 12:41 pmso the sax soloist we're working with for the May concert at Hill had a short list of pieces he wanted to play, and the band prez was tasked with finding the wind symphony parts.
His first choice was a no-go, as the rumors of a wind symphony arrangement of the concerto are just that, rumors. Prez poked at the composer's website and found that it's 'on the list' of things to be worked on in the future.
His second choice is at least written! there's recorded proof of it. Tracking a copy of it down, otoh, was an exercise in perseverance. It's not in print anywhere. The usual sources don't have a copy we can borrow in their libraries. Prez and maestro and various band directors of their acquaintance sent out APBs to their musical friends for it, and eventually; one got back to them and said "I think that DS in Fla has it. Here's their contact info, tell them I sent you." DS in Fla did have it, they thought, but needed to check their files. Yes, DS did have it. In partial manuscript form - some of the parts had been typeset, but most were still manuscript. DS wasn't willing to send their originals to some unknown band, so Mongoled them up to a director-known-to-them in MI, who scanned them (to jpg, not PDF, for reasons that I do not know) and sent the scans to Prez.
The parts that were manuscript look like a scan of a Xerox of a ditto. The typeset parts look like a scan of a Xerox. The bari sax part is missing the final three pages (a note says "when the bari sax part runs out, play the alto clarinet part"). The first trumpet part was poorly scanned, and is missing the bottom line on the first page. (The first trumpet player is a bit of a primadonna and tried to claim that their entire part was unreadable -- it's no worse than anyone else's, other than the missing line...) I spent a morning putting the notes into MuseScore, and an afternoon transcribing all the tempo/dynamic/articulation info.
Such fun!
His first choice was a no-go, as the rumors of a wind symphony arrangement of the concerto are just that, rumors. Prez poked at the composer's website and found that it's 'on the list' of things to be worked on in the future.
His second choice is at least written! there's recorded proof of it. Tracking a copy of it down, otoh, was an exercise in perseverance. It's not in print anywhere. The usual sources don't have a copy we can borrow in their libraries. Prez and maestro and various band directors of their acquaintance sent out APBs to their musical friends for it, and eventually; one got back to them and said "I think that DS in Fla has it. Here's their contact info, tell them I sent you." DS in Fla did have it, they thought, but needed to check their files. Yes, DS did have it. In partial manuscript form - some of the parts had been typeset, but most were still manuscript. DS wasn't willing to send their originals to some unknown band, so Mongoled them up to a director-known-to-them in MI, who scanned them (to jpg, not PDF, for reasons that I do not know) and sent the scans to Prez.
The parts that were manuscript look like a scan of a Xerox of a ditto. The typeset parts look like a scan of a Xerox. The bari sax part is missing the final three pages (a note says "when the bari sax part runs out, play the alto clarinet part"). The first trumpet part was poorly scanned, and is missing the bottom line on the first page. (The first trumpet player is a bit of a primadonna and tried to claim that their entire part was unreadable -- it's no worse than anyone else's, other than the missing line...) I spent a morning putting the notes into MuseScore, and an afternoon transcribing all the tempo/dynamic/articulation info.
Such fun!
