Uber-condensed
September 11th, 2008
One simple thought for you today: I would pay many thousands of dollars for a full score to the musical Guys and Dolls. This score is condensed to the extent that accurate portrayal of any part in the orchestra is pretty well impossible. I don’t know who to cue, I don’t know what rhythm or articulation they have, and I have to ask the students “who has the…?” and “Is it a quarter or an eighth?”. And they can barely read their parts, so poorly are they scrawled. In performing this musical, my pit orchestra students are getting more of an education in union politics than in music!
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