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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:25:14 EST
From: DvdBelkin@aol.com
Subject: Re: Ligeti Edition
Thanks Colin for all the dope on this. Per one point,
> the Edition ground to a halt [...]
> also for the obvious/vulgar reason
> that sales of all the titles were
> woefully low, particularly in the eyes
> of a major label.
Just out of curiosity - I've always wondered
about this - roughly how "woefully low"
_were_ those Ligeti Edition sales? And how do they compare to the sales of, say, the Bach/Gould reissues? Or some other more mainstream Sony series that could give me some perspective on the Ligeti numbers?
I have had MANY bones to pick with Columbia/Sony Classical over the years: failure to reissue alot of the Budapest Quartet stuff on CD (here also they seem to have discontinued series mid-stream), failure to reissue the Stern-Trampler recording of the Sinfonia Concertante (which creams the later Stern-Zuckerman), I could go on... (I actually had a whole tick list of peeves at one point, but I don't know where it is now.)
It's all right up there with leaving Bankrobber off the reissue of Black Market Clash.
David
PS. By the way, if you go to the All Music Guide website, their "featured style" of the moment is Avant-Garde. In which they include Betty Carter and Elvin Jones, but, hey, no complaints from me...
np: George Lewis, Endless Shout
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:46:49 -0600
From: sergio luque <sergio@tomate.com.mx>
Subject: Re: notation software (odp)
el 21-02-2001 21:37, Skip Heller en velaires@earthlink.net escribi=F3:
> Does anyone on the list have any recommendations for a good, mongoloid
> Fisher-Price notation software (pref one as easy to type in as to enter v=
ia
> a keyboard)? Surfing the net has presented me with about 1,000,000 optio=
ns,
> none of which is clear to me.
hi!
there's is a new notation software, for the mac and for windows, it is
called _igor engraver_, it works quite well, has a lot of features for the
modern composer :-) : playback of glissandi and microtones, an atonal
friendly use of accidentals, etc.
also, a review in the _macworld uk_ magazine gave 8.4 points (out of
ten) to _igor engraver_ and 7.8 to _finale 2001_.
the best news is that _igor engraver_ is completely free!
WARNING: the downside is that this software is a little bit buggy, so i
