[HANASHIR:16136] Re: Minchag for arrangements

[ilana axel <iaxel...>]

Dear all,
Thanks to all for your comments, this discussion has
been very helpful. I am very sorry if some of you
thought that I was somehow trying to get around the
issue of composers' due rights. That was certainly
never my intention. Rather, I am trying to understand
the correct practices and expectations of a very
demanding profession called "synagogue music
director/educator." When requests are made on the
Hanashir site, for example, for this or that song,
transcription, arrangement, etc, it is obvious that I,
for one, must be extremely careful in my response.
Thank you all for your help, Happy Chanukah to
everyone,
Ilana
--- Robin Sparr <rssings (at) rcn(dot)com> wrote:
>   ilana axel wrote:
> 
> > But, if one is not
> > intending to profit from the arrangement, can one
> > share it freely without consent from the original
> song
> > composer?
> I don't think so, because any arrangement would
> certainly include the 
> original composer's composition, which generally
> would not  distributed 
> without permission.  Adrian correctly makes the
> point that many 
> composers are happy to share their music and
> recordings for little or 
> no compensation, in order to promote their music. 
> But they still do 
> own it, and for anyone other than the composer to
> distribute it, 
> without permission, would seem to me to be not so
> menschlicht.  In the 
> schools where I've taught, I've often been asked to
> make recordings of 
> the songs I teach, but have been very very reluctant
> to do so, and 
> instead have provided discographies and encouraged
> families to BUY the 
> music of our contemporary Jewish American composers
> instead.  (I must 
> admit: before I was aware of the rules, I did make a
> recording with one 
> of my choirs, and was taken to task about it
> subsequently; that 
> experience certainly informs my current position on
> this issue.)
> -robin s-r
> 
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