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There is a distincition about Full Concert Performance and Concert Library

Posted by:	Quicheo 10:21 am EDT 08/07/14
In reply to:	or availability - Carol2 08:23 am EDT 08/07/14

You raise a good point about licensing and it's a good idea to check to be sure there is not a restriction in the license. In my experience, usually most licensing houses are okay with presenting a whole work as a semi-staged concert. Some houses, like R and H and MTI, have concert libraries where SINGLE SONGS can be rented for presentation in a concert with full orchestra. For example, when our theater had a milestone birthday, we did a concert and featured songs from shows from our previous seasons. We rented the orchestrations on a song by song basis. This is one legal way to perform the songs. A note--sometimes, the songs in question are NOT the same orchestration provided when one licenses the whole show. A discussion with the Concert Library people at each house is often helpful. Some houses, notably Tams, have no mechanism to rent a single song, at least not to community or lower tier professional theaters. In these cases, one must either forgo the songs or buy the full orchestration for a song outright (several publishers offer such, often designed for school concerts, etc.). I'm sure others have had far more experience than I and can offer more solutions.

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