“My name is Jennifer Kloetzel, I’m the cellist of the Cypress String Quartet (based in San Francisco), and I’m a founding member.”
www.cypressquartet.com
Recorded November 2010
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I was rather surprised in places. If a composer can’t get other musicians to record their music then maybe the Cypress String Quartet shouldn’t record it, either? I have noticed that musicians like to get paid. The policy of accepting submissions only from people who can afford to really smacks of elitism and an elitism based on class and not merit.
Hi Scott – thanks for listening to this episode. I really think that Jennifer’s comment may be a little out of context. When I recorded her interview she was talking about how she would rather hear an unpolished recording of live musicians rather than a midi realization. You are right, most musicians like to get paid – and they should. However, it is also possible to find musicians who are willing to read a piece a couple times without monetary compensation… I think this is what Jennifer was trying to say.
Jim, thanks for the clarification. That’s exactly what I remember saying….any live recording is better than a midi realization, for us to hear a composer’s ‘voice’. We’re certainly not asking that the Berlin Philharmonic record your music, but simply that we hear a live musician playing something that you wrote (and not a computer—nothing wrong with computer music, but it’s not what we do!). I firmly believe the following–and have seen it happen time and again: if someone believes in what they have to offer, they will find a way. I have known composers who borrow recording equipment and do favors for friends in order to get their music recorded in SOME fashion. A live performance recording, or even a rehearsal is fine. When I was a student at Juilliard, people asked me for favors ALL of the time—playing on their recitals, playing their compositions, etc. I never was paid for those, but considered it part of being a musician and building musical friendships….(and often I did it for a free meal or a beer! :-) You know musicians…)
When we choose a composer to work with, we are committing to raising a lot of money and also to spending an incredible amount of time and energy with the composer AND the music. This has a lot to do with whether a composer’s voice speaks to us. We often will be working on a piece for hundreds of hours before we will premiere it, so it is important for us that we believe in the music that we are playing.