Good morning, all! I am soooo happy that this part of the EILEEN recordng job is over. I slept very well.
After I realized I had made my trek to the Kurt Weill Foundation in error, I got to Toyland by 10:45, sicne the two offices are only 7 blocks apart. I began with the woodwind books, checking that the pages had been taped in order and looking for any really dreadful copies from the printer. By the time Marnie arrived, I had finished the winds and moved on to the strings. We have a good copyist who could doesn't appear to understand that when a page turn occurs, one of the string players has to stop playing and turn the page. At that spot, if you've got 6 violins, you only have 3 players actually playing for at leat one measure. as a result, your violin sound is cut in half, and the first page turn he gave the violins, ignoring the place four staves earlier when they had an empty measure, was in a passage where they were marked to play as loudly as possible! It's better to have for the part more pages with sufficient places for turns than what he gave me, so I had to have the Violin 1 part for the Act One Finale reformatted and reprinted. The part went from 8 pages to 11, but now it's much easier for all involved.
By 4 pm, we were on the final stretch of checking parts so Marnie went to Fed Ex and came back with several cartons includng flat rate Internation 10kg cartons. By 6, we were loaded up and off to the Fed Ex at 28th and Seventh Avenue. I had forgotten how many forms we had to deal with so we spent another 30 minutes redoing labels and customs forms. Luckily, we had the nicest and most patient Fed Ex worker I've ever dealt with. Two of our cartons weighed more than 10kg - how manypounds is that? -and he had to repack them into a 25kg carton. By 6:45 we were finished and the three cartons were shipped.
The bad part of the day is that, because of the rush to ship, I completely forgot that I needed to stop at my bank and make a deposit by 5 pm. As a result, I am overdrawn $105 for insufficient fees this morning. I'm very unhappy about it, but it's my own damned fault.
So, this morning I go back to the Kurt Weill Foundation, followed by a stop at Toyland to pick up the full scores we are shipping to Judy, our record producer who lives in Riverdale. I also have to swing by Rodgers & Hammerstein to drop off a thank you gift, and then I'm home for a whle. That's my day.
Cell phones are a necessary evil, but I really do hate the idiots everywhere misusing them, from the fools who get out of an elevator and block the door while checking their text messages to the dumb asses who walk around publicly airing their opinions and private thoughts at the top of ther lungs to the world. Of course, it doesn't help that the manufacturers keep "improving" them so you have your computer, movie theatre, library with you wherever you go, if you so wish. I so do not.
