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Re: Regional Orchestras and the "help..."
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:56 pm
by UDELBR
It's only recently that musicians have been listed on CD liners, and that only occasionally. Everyone else is listed though: management, sponsors, recording techs, etc.
Shameful, actually.
Re: Regional Orchestras and the "help..."
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:13 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
That wouldn't be the "B-Ark Orchestra", would it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSid-p0Xlk0
Re: Regional Orchestras and the "help..."
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:29 pm
by sloan
What's the fuss? Symphony musicians are just "note technicians". All the creative and artistic decisions are made by management.
Re: Regional Orchestras and the "help..."
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:07 pm
by Rick Denney
Consider movie credits. They list the pimply faced adolescent that brings Perrier to the second-assistant grip ("second assistant grip best boy"), but not the guy whose solo musical performance will become culturally iconic for decades to come.
Rick "Tommy who?" Denney
Re: Regional Orchestras and the "help..."
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:51 pm
by ShoelessWes
LJV wrote:So, I get a call to sub in a regional orchestra that is a bit of a distance from me, but what the heck.
I have no idea who the regular tooba player is, so I look to their website.
Secretaries, administrative assistants, on and on, have credits and bios.
Not one musician is mentioned anywhere on the entire website. These folks are full time employees. They audition, sign a contract, pay union dues, etc.
Very weird.
This is the case with 2 of the Orchestras I've been with in the past. I have no problem with it, unless the checks bounce... (which, no surprise, happens)