[HANASHIR:16137] Re: Minchag for arrangements

[rahel <rahel...>]

I don't mean to insult anyone, but the word is "minhag" - with a "hay" - 
not a "khet".

Thanks,

Rahel






At 01:38 PM 12/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>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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