I was pleased to find another choral musician publicizing information about YouTube performances of choral music.
Jack Senzig, director of the Gifford Children’s Choir of Racine, WI, has been a choral director for 20+ years and he's trying to provide a useful service for my professional colleagues. He has created a site called the ChoirBragBlog and one of the purposes is to explore the practice of choral performances on YouTube.
He has a message to the publishers of choral music:
Note to publishers: This is meant to be a boon to your industry. If you find any of your copyrighted materials on this site and object feel free to contact me and I will remove them. If you want to promote videos of your copyrighted works you may submit two links to the Promoted Video page. Composers and copyright holders that direct their own ensembles are welcome to post to the regular topical pages.
Recently, Jack has started to publish his findings after contacting different publishers. He's published reports from GIA, Concordia, and Chorister's Guild.
David has explored this issue before on ChoralNet . . . Look here.
Keep it up, Jack!
David Topping says
philip copeland says
David Topping says
https://choralnet.org/view/177928
https://choralnet.org/view/240291
500,000 views Lessons from YouTube
https://choralnet.org/view/255945
YouTube No License Needed
https://choralnet.org/view/265915
YouTube and BMI
https://choralnet.org/view/266800
Posting choral song on school’s website: legal?
https://choralnet.org/view/273075
YouTube question
https://choralnet.org/view/275347
https://choralnet.org/view/292782
donald patriquin says
That being said, it makes sense for them to ask that the publishers and composers of music so performed be named. Much else amounts to needless bureaucracy, and is just a stumbling block for publisher, composer, and choir. With the advent of PDF transmission and self-publishing, ‘traditional’ music publishers are under a lot of pressure today, maybe even extinction. Anything to keep them going is a valuable service to the music community; music printed on cheap paper today and gone tomorrow is not always the answer. Also, publishers help set standards via their editorial policies, something that self-publishing tends not to do. They also advertise, have readings and so on. May they stay around, but may they take advantage of 21st. century media. And may they keep it simple- for everyone’s sake!