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Alexandra Gardner is a great composer who, thanks in no small part to her time as an Associate Editor for NewMusicBox, knows a lot about the nuts and bolts workings of the concert music world. For this week, she and I sat down to talk about a wide range of practical considerations for composers.
- During our conversation, we touched on:
- Pricing your scores
- Comparing your prices to similar scores by other self-publishied composers or put out by traditional publishers
- Prices that reflect blood, sweat, and tears cs. those that reflect concrete costs of printing & binding
- Taking where you are in your career into consideration when pricing your scores
- Composer web sites
- Integrating your non-musical interests into your composer site to make it more interesting and engaging
- Making your site easy to navigate, and your materials/info easy to find
- Providing the information that performers and presenters need
- Information redundancies across your site
- Taking into account the Luddites in the concert music world when making your site
- Evaluating the use of your time honestly
- Advice and “your mileaeg may vary”
- Getting your doctorate
- Gaining skills from non-musical day jobs
- Networking and how we perceive it
- Capital “N” Networking vs. lower-case “n” networking
- Contacting new people
Links:
Alexandra Gardner
Alex for NewMusicBox
“Fair Trade for Sheet Music” by Dennis Tobenski
Alex Shapiro: Notes from the Kelp
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