For those who have never heard of the program, IPA Now is a brilliant program that automatically transcribes several languages (Latin, French, German, Italian) into IPA Symbols. For one week, Kelly Turner (owner of IPA Now!) has agreed to give ChoralNet members the program for a discounted price of $17.99. Here is the […]
Composer confronts copyright abusers
My excellent Samford student Chris Barbee pointed this article out to me about composer Jason Robert Brown’s confrontation of copyright abusers. It is a long story, but many of you will find it fascinating. Here is how it began: Four thousand copies of my music were being offered for “trade.” (I put “trade” […]
Tick – tock! ACDA Honor Choir Deadline Approaches
ACDA has gone digital with the National Honor Choirs for the Chicago conference. The quick notes: teachers/conductors must be ACDA members they submit MP3's through the ACDA site to opusevent.com (sign into ACDA site first) Deadline is October 1 Most ACDA submissions come at the last second . . . don't let this be […]
The Value of the Performing Arts
Another great TED video that speaks about what we do:
A new kind of music publisher
Yesterday's rant on the stagnated music publishing model of today has an answer from one music publisher: Graphite Publishing. A few days ago, Timothy Takach from Graphite Publishing sent me an email telling me about his company. Here is the history: 5 years ago, Jocelyn Hagen and I started a company called Graphite […]
Most Music Publishing Gets it Wrong
It has been a pretty long time since I last blogged about the music publishing industry. I have been frustrated with their paper-based economic business plan for sometime now and have blogged about it here, here, and here. The music publishing is far too entrenched in the Gutenberg model and relies solely on the […]