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From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Date: 5 Oct 92 02:59:03 GMT
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mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS) writes:

>Richard A. Muirden [GA] (s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
>: I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
>: some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
>: prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
>: the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
>: affoard them? :-(

>My wife and I have the 3rd Quartet ($12), 24 Preludes ($6), and
>the first five of the 24 Preludes and Fugues ($4.50).  Other
>composers seem similarly priced: Bach's Sonatas and Partitas cost $12,
>the Cello Suites $14.  A Faure sonata was $8.  Are the prices you
>saw more outrageous than these?

Oh yes.. how's $30 cheapest? *sigh*

One wonders what the "Leningrad" symphony would cost at these prices!!!

I was hoping to get a copy of the 10th to look at learn, but at these
prices!!!

Unless I get someone to go to Moscow and send me something which would
be dirt cheap there ;-)

(along with the Vodka ;-) )


>Perhaps being familiar with the prices of mathematics books have
>inured me to these prices.  Both types of material require
>painstaking typesetting, and neither can expect much sales.
>I wonder if orchestras can get a bulk rate.

You'd hope so, or that would explain why some works get so little
performed, yet the orchestras must buy sets and keep their own
libraries

looks like Australia is in the backwaters in this respect!

>	-mike rogers
>	mkr@cs.amherst.edu

-richard

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From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Marching Band does festival overture
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:04:16 GMT


During halftime of this weekends slaughter at the hands of Virginia, the
Duke University Marching Band broke out a Shostakovich piece. I heard the
name "Shostakovich" and my ears pricked up. What they did was the Festive
Overture, op.96.

Well, I was impressed by the selection--although I usually hate marching
bands, i liked the fact that they ventured away from the show tune/pop
songs arranged for band trap that most bands fall into.

Unfortunately, they were facing the other side of the field, so i couldnt
hear that well. But what I heard sounded very distincively like a DDS piece,
so they must have been doing it at least half right.....

-rob

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From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:25:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.144255.782@menudo.uh.edu> chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU writes:
>>Richard A. Muirden [GA] (s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
>>: I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
>>: some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
>>: prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
>>: the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
>>: affoard them? :-(
>
>Another good place is your local university library......
>
>Which raises another question. The library also had the "complete
>Shostakovich edition" (the 25-odd volume set).

Now, THESE are the expensive scores, the collected editions. I work at
your local university music library, and we dont even let these collected
editions go out, mainly because they are sooooo expensive. While a regular
score usually costs in the $10-$50 range, these collected editions usually
cost $100+ PER VOLUME. As a quick example, volume 15 of the complete
works of Verdi cost $206.86 (!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But this is not really so outrageous when compared to scientific journals,
which can cost in the $1000s per volume (no sh*t!). Remember these handy
facts as you watch the publishing industry continue to face economic
problems well into the 2000s......

-rob dobson
univ of va music lib.


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From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich,rec.music.classical
Subject: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Date: 1 Oct 92 04:52:52 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
affoard them? :-(

-richard

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From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
Subject: Re: Band vs. D.S.
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:15:22 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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bstjohn@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>I love the idea of a marching band doing Festive Overture! *Laugh* A wind
>version of the 10th exists, too. What an idea....

wow.. that concept blows me away..

Wonder if anyone will do a synthesiser one (I had a dream about that
the other day! ;-) 0

-richard

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From: aldrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Dunbar Aldrich-Moodie)
Subject: DSCH plays DSCH
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:09:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.163142.10641@ms.uky.edu> cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:

>Are there recordings of DS works conducted by DS?

Not to my knowledge -- but there are recordings of DSCH playing the piano in
some of his own pieces (From Jewish Folk Poetry, the Preludes, and the cello
sonata with Rostropovich are the 3 I know about).  Anyone know about other
recordings he made of his own music.

What about performances by the people he wrote the pieces for -- ex. 
Oistrakh's performances of the violin music, or the Borodin's performances
of some of the quartets, or Nicolayeva's performance of the perludes and
fugues.  Anyone know of others?

James
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Subject: D.S. conducting
From: bstjohn@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:44:39 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

According to my sources, D.S. only conducted publicly ONCE. That event was not
recorded. I could be wrong, my source was the collected works, i forget which
volume. Anyone else have conflicting stories?
From: rkvidyar@eos.ncsu.edu (RAMAN KUMAR VIDYARTHI)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
Subject: On being born yesterday but raised on the fifth symphony
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: rkvidyar@eos.ncsu.edu (RAMAN KUMAR VIDYARTHI)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Originator: rkvidyar@c00017-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu


I'm just learning to play piano, so forgive me if this doesn't make the 
slightest bit of sense.  What's the number of a really long symphony he did 
(sometime after the war) that (I think) ends with a C-D-C played over and over 
again?.  There was a live performance of it quite a few months ago on NPR (I
think?) along with an early Prokofiev number.  I ran out of tape.
The thing about shostakovitch is you have to listen to one of his pieces
twice before going ga ga over it.  That's just me however.
Is his fourth symphony really good?   The leningrad one?  Be objective.  Hah!

Andrew Lankford  ( leave Raman outta this, please)
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From: ns14@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
Subject: Re: On being born yesterday but raised on the fifth symphony
Organization: Department of Chemistry, Cornell Univ.
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 01:21:07 GMT
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Raman Vidyarthi writes:

I'm just learning to play piano, so forgive me if this doesn't make the
slightest bit of sense.  What's the number of a really long symphony he did
(sometime after the war) that (I think) ends with a C-D-C played over and over
again?.  There was a live performance of it quite a few months ago on NPR (I
think?) along with an early Prokofiev number.  I ran out of tape.
The thing about shostakovitch is you have to listen to one of his pieces
twice before going ga ga over it.  That's just me however.
Is his fourth symphony really good?   The leningrad one?  Be objective.  Hah!

I believe you are looking for symphony 8.  I like the haitink version.
An excerpt from the first movement was one of the first shostakovich
pieces i had ever heard (on the soundtrack to rollerball, bion)

Nathan Siemers
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Subject: Scores $$$!
From: bstjohn@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:27:35 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

(Not to toot my own horn, but...) As the master's TA for the conservatory orch
estra I only know too well how much scores cost. By the way ths collected works
volumes, now out-of-print because of the governmental crash, cost $60 a piece.
I own vols. 6, 7, 8, 20,21. Mahler's 5th runs $100. Go to your library, if you
don't have the bucks....

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From: bobs@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bob Sutton)
Subject: Festive overture
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 08:32:50 GMT

On the subject of DS' Festive Overture, I too had the opportunity to play
an arrangement of it in band.  I didn't think much of the arrangement, but
the piece itself is wonderful.  However, if anyone is interested in the
band arrangement, it is available on CD.  My record club catalogue 
arrived in the mail today.  One of the featured CDs is entitled
"Live in Osaka" with the Eastman Wind Ensemble conducted by Donald
Hunsberger.  It has, among many other interesting pieces for band,
DS' Festive Overture.  I'm considering getting it.  I don't have the
numbers for the CD although it is on Sony Classical.


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From: bstjohn@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
Subject: Periodicals
Date: 2 Oct 92 07:30:55 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

I am doing a research paper about D.S.'s forced propaganda articles. Does
anyone have any periodicals from the 40's 50's or 60's?? Or any good
references? Please post!!!!!
                              Brian St. John (U. of MO - Kansas City)
From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
Subject: Re: DSCH plays DSCH
Date: 2 Oct 92 03:44:14 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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aldrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Dunbar Aldrich-Moodie) writes:

>In article <1992Sep27.163142.10641@ms.uky.edu> cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:

>What about performances by the people he wrote the pieces for -- ex. 
>Oistrakh's performances of the violin music, or the Borodin's performances
>of some of the quartets, or Nicolayeva's performance of the perludes and
>fugues.  Anyone know of others?

Rostropovich and the Cello Concertos spring to mind, and could you
include the 8th symphony with Mravinsky? OK, so it was a dedication...

Maxim never recorded a version of the 2nd piano concerto which
was for him, unless you include the performance on Chandos (CHAN 8443)
where he conducts his son Dmitri jnr in playing it.


>James

-richard

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From: mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS)
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 12:34:26 GMT

Richard A. Muirden [GA] (s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
: I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
: some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
: prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
: the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
: affoard them? :-(

My wife and I have the 3rd Quartet ($12), 24 Preludes ($6), and
the first five of the 24 Preludes and Fugues ($4.50).  Other
composers seem similarly priced: Bach's Sonatas and Partitas cost $12,
the Cello Suites $14.  A Faure sonata was $8.  Are the prices you
saw more outrageous than these?

Perhaps being familiar with the prices of mathematics books have
inured me to these prices.  Both types of material require
painstaking typesetting, and neither can expect much sales.
I wonder if orchestras can get a bulk rate.

There are also libraries although small ones may not have much
Shostakovich.  Anyone who lives in NYC should go to the public
library at Lincoln Center.  It's terrific.  They have an extensive
collection of recorded & sheet music which can be borrowed.
You can also listen to the recorded music.  (The records are
in mediocre shape, but it at least it would give you an idea of
whether you would want to buy it at Tower Records up the
street.)

	-mike rogers
	mkr@cs.amherst.edu
From: karen@angelo.amd.com (Karen Black)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
Subject: Re: Marching Band does festival overture
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:30:25 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA

I enjoyed playing "Festive O" in band (years ago).  We also did the
fourth movement of the Fifth Symphony, and these started my interest
in Shostakovitch.
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From: ns14@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
Subject: test
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:57:37 GMT

test

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From: lungtt@gus26.ecn.purdue.edu (Terence T. Lung)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:32:28 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Oct1.144255.782@menudo.uh.edu> chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU writes:
>In article <BvG09E.LzH@unix.amherst.edu>, mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS) writes:
>>Richard A. Muirden [GA] (s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
>>: I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
>>: some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
>>: prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
>>: the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
>>: affoard them? :-(
>>
>[stuff from mike rogers deleted]
>
>Another good place is your local university library. At my old school in
>Southern California they had an excellent collection of scores for many,
>many pieces... They will tend to be well-bound, sturdy editions. I was the
>first ever borrower of the DSCH 2nd violin concerto score, thus I didn't
>feel obliged to return it the next day. 

Even better is our federal government's Library of Congress.  I worked
with a guy named Joel Lazar in suburban Maryland who still rants and
raves about having looked at DSCH *manuscripts*.  He went in there to
study the stuff.  Then the librarians brought *it* out.  "I thought
I was going to look at a *copy*...

Terence
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From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
Subject: Re: DS' Tenth
    <1992Sep20.115400.1966@ms.uky.edu> 
    <1992Sep21.104719.18667@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:31:42 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <1992Sep21.104719.18667@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA]) writes:
>cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
>
>>I have the Haitink recording and his mucking about with the tempi and
>>dynamics is precisely what I don't like about the recording.  I heard
>>a performance of the tenth conducted by Andre Previn a few years ago
>>and he was doing the same thing.  I don't think Shostakovich needs any
>>"help".
>
>Yes this is interesting. For example I have found that Jarvi plays
>the 3rd movement centeral section a lot slower than every other
>recording I've heard, and it sounds good, or at least brings a whole
>different perspective into the music, while his first section is
>a bit fast...
>
>Same with symphony no. 7, where the very first minute or two is
>played VERY fast in relation to other recordings I have
>heard.
>
>About the 10th, I don't know exactly what tempi DS had set, how
>was Maxim's recording? (I have seen it, but after hearing his
>15th which is woeful I kept away from it, even though I like his
>8th). Did DS ever conduct his 10th? I guess not, but it would
>have been very interesting for sure.
>
>
>
Are there recordings of DS works conducted by DS?

Charles YEomans
cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
yeomans@austin.onu.edu

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From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:36:39 GMT
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chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789") writes:

>Which raises another question. The library also had the "complete
>Shostakovich edition" (the 25-odd volume set). Just glancing at them 
>suggests that lots of music by Shostakovich remains to be recorded; many
>of the pieces I'd never heard of before. Go for it Neemi... (sp)

Neeme Jarvi ;-) yes... a lot has also been lost.. but the
complete version would be fantastic! I wonder how much it
costs!!

>Good luck,
>Bill

-richard


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From: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789")
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Reply-To: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:42:55 GMT

In article <BvG09E.LzH@unix.amherst.edu>, mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS) writes:
>Richard A. Muirden [GA] (s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
>: I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
>: some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
>: prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
>: the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
>: affoard them? :-(
>
[stuff from mike rogers deleted]

Another good place is your local university library. At my old school in
Southern California they had an excellent collection of scores for many,
many pieces... They will tend to be well-bound, sturdy editions. I was the
first ever borrower of the DSCH 2nd violin concerto score, thus I didn't
feel obliged to return it the next day. 

Which raises another question. The library also had the "complete
Shostakovich edition" (the 25-odd volume set). Just glancing at them 
suggests that lots of music by Shostakovich remains to be recorded; many
of the pieces I'd never heard of before. Go for it Neemi... (sp)

Good luck,
Bill

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| University of Houston, TX  >-----------<         reality itself"     |
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From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
Subject: Re: Scores $$$!
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:25:54 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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bstjohn@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>(Not to toot my own horn, but...) As the master's TA for the conservatory orch
>estra I only know too well how much scores cost. By the way ths collected works
>volumes, now out-of-print because of the governmental crash, cost $60 a piece.
>I own vols. 6, 7, 8, 20,21. Mahler's 5th runs $100. Go to your library, if you
>don't have the bucks....

I wonder how much they would cost in Russia... a lot cheaper I'd say..

:)

-richard

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From: dean@pico.qpsx.oz.au (Dean Economou)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: music scores cost a fortune!!!
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:49:24 GMT
Organization: QPSX Communications LTD, Perth, Western Australia.
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s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA]) writes:
: I was browsing in the sheet music section of a music store looking for
: some Shostakovich scores for my own intrest and was shocked to see the
: prices on the "small" pieces! My mind boggles at what the score for
: the Leningrad symphony or 10th would cost! Outrageous! How can people
: affoard them? :-(
: 
: -richard

They are expensive, but very much cheaper than the fines levelled at
those who try and use photocopied versions.  A few choirs in Australia
were somehow turned over to copyright holders recently.  Rumour has it
that the fines were in the vicinity of $200,000.


Cheers,
Dean
(dean@qpsx.oz.au)
: 
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