[CAUT] recital policy

[Fred Sturm]

I would echo Kent's comments, all of them. I haven't been on official  
duty at a concert by the music department, ever. I think I touched up  
at intermission once 23 years ago (first year I was there). I tune for  
all faculty and guest recitals, and then If I haven't otherwise tuned  
each of the concert instruments within two weeks, I schedule a tuning  
for the department in general (student recitals). I have no problem  
with my tunings lasting through many concerts - not that unisons  
couldn't be refined a bit every day if I had that much time to spare.  
(I am on at concerts for other venues only when the artist's rider  
specifically calls for it. George WInston and one or two others from  
time to time).
Regards,
Fred Sturm
fssturm at unm.edu
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain

On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Kent Swafford wrote:

> Within the past week, my administrators have confirmed that we do  
> not provide concert standby. Generally speaking, we have more than  
> one piano in the halls, so if there is a disaster, the worst that  
> would happen would be continuing the concert on a different piano.  
> Hasn't happened yet to my knowledge.
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> And by the way, even when I have happened to attend concerts, I have  
> never provided touchups at intermission.  My thoughts are that the  
> general level of tuning is better than in times past, and our  
> tunings can withstand a day or so of playing, within reasonable  
> limits and tolerances.
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> In his recent article, Robert Weirich remarks on the passing of the  
> one recital/one tuning norm. Our halls are simply too busy to tune  
> for every recital, too busy to prohibit rehearsals on pianos between  
> the tuning and recital. Weirich sees this as a budget issue, but as  
> I mention above, I think that our tunings are generally better than  
> they were 40 years ago, so we have chosen to forego some tunings in  
> the halls before choosing cuts in other areas.
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> Kent
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> On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Dr. Henry Nicolaides wrote:
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>> Hi list...I was wondering about policy regarding the piano  
>> technician presence at/during recitals.  It does not appear that  
>> we, at SIU, have a written guideline or policy.  I prep and tune  
>> before the solo piano recitals and tune within a reasonable time  
>> (whatever that happens to be and considering the use of the piano  
>> and recital hall) before accompanied voice and instrumental  
>> recitals.  Just wondering if anyone was "required" to be present  
>> during any recitals to be available should the unthinkable happen.
>>
>> Henry Nicolaides
>> Piano Technician, School of Music
>> Southern Illinois University
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