Good morning, all! Yesterday morning was a bit frustrating at the McGlinnventory because two of our colleagues didn't show up to continue the inventory of the DATs - and there are a ton of them! - going to the Library of Congress, nor did they show up last week and time is getting short because the executor wants to close this estate by Dec 31. This morning one of them sent me and our paralegal an email saying the problem on his end is the scheduling of the catering company he's working for over the holidays, bit I'm rather pissed at the other, a brilliant musician who needs handholding to walk a step. I would have hired other people at half the rate but I am stuck with these two because of the executor.
So that was the frustration, but I did get my inventory lists in order and Geri, our paralegal, and I did get orchestra parts and full scores pulled for the LoC. McGlinn had sold the Library his collection in 1998 and then sent them, after receiving in three payments a ton of money, about 3/4 ofwhat he promised. Our first job, before shipping the Library everything else due the Music Division, is to find everything not sent from that original shipment. Interestingly, on the LoC inventory sheets, there is a ton of material they received that is not on the McGlinn lists!
After that, I went to Toyland for a meeting with two lovely ladies, one an opera singer who will be performing with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival next summer, and the other the daughter of the institute's director and a lady I've always liked, about the progress of this project. Since I've been threatening to resign for the past year, I didn't care what occurred. What did occur was quite promising, with good suggestions and a chance to vent all of the frustrations. If what we've worked out is to be accomplished, it would be a wonderful thing. We'll see.
Today, I'm off to City Center to help Joshie, my adopted son, finish up the new edition of FOLLIES for Music Theatre International. His Finale program clearly clashed with the program that the original inputting employed and, on his last pass to print out the score, a lot of information was lost. He's on a severe deadline since MTI needs the materials for the Kennedy Center production, and I will go in and see what proofing/things I can do to help.
I think that's all of my news.
