Tuesday, 21 April 2015
“The film was “Free Town”—a very rich and thoughtful film; a true story about five black LDS missionaries in Liberia. We were both moved and enriched by the experience. The original motion picture score by Robert Allen Elliott is strong.”
Thursday, 24 April 2015
Continuing the digitalization of Jackman Music Corporation back list publications, and assembly of the 2016 catalog of printed music.
Saturday, 26 April 2015
Spent the morning in the bay of our warehouse assembling the exhibit we will use in Las Vegas's Tropicana Hotel this week during the Retail Print Music Dealers Association annual convention.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Jerry Jackman Blog - week of 13 April 2015
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
I was up until midnight reading Who Moved My Cheese? I was so stoked by it, that I had to wake Carole and tell her about it. We discussed it in more detail what we might do to make Jackman Music Corporation more dynamic. Meridith's biweekly newsletter is going a long way towards that now. I also toyed with an idea for an electronic ChoralClub where members receive publication notices with recording links instead of physical sheet music.
“Hem” is the character in the cheese book most like myself. He is content to carry on usual business and resents distractions to the contrary.
I have to ask myself, “What is it that we are trying to do? Is it about sheet music, or is it about service in the Kingdom? If it is about the latter, we may be more effective just serving more shifts in the temple, or going on a mission. It could be argued that sheet music is also an important aspect of the Kingdom too—I guess—and we may be in a particularly potent position to provide; possibly more so than other folks.
I wonder if there might be a way that we could champion the Ward Choir more effectively?
-- At the office in the morning, I prepared five choral pieces and two books for download through the JMC web site.
-- We are planning an exhibit at the international printed music convention in Las Vegas at the end of this month, and a choral reading workshop tour of northeastern states in the Fall. Locations will probably be Pittsburgh, Albany, and Baltimore.
Thursday, 16 April 2015
I was up until midnight reading Who Moved My Cheese? I was so stoked by it, that I had to wake Carole and tell her about it. We discussed it in more detail what we might do to make Jackman Music Corporation more dynamic. Meridith's biweekly newsletter is going a long way towards that now. I also toyed with an idea for an electronic ChoralClub where members receive publication notices with recording links instead of physical sheet music.
“Hem” is the character in the cheese book most like myself. He is content to carry on usual business and resents distractions to the contrary.
I have to ask myself, “What is it that we are trying to do? Is it about sheet music, or is it about service in the Kingdom? If it is about the latter, we may be more effective just serving more shifts in the temple, or going on a mission. It could be argued that sheet music is also an important aspect of the Kingdom too—I guess—and we may be in a particularly potent position to provide; possibly more so than other folks.
I wonder if there might be a way that we could champion the Ward Choir more effectively?
-- At the office in the morning, I prepared five choral pieces and two books for download through the JMC web site.
-- We are planning an exhibit at the international printed music convention in Las Vegas at the end of this month, and a choral reading workshop tour of northeastern states in the Fall. Locations will probably be Pittsburgh, Albany, and Baltimore.
Thursday, 16 April 2015
My brain, sleeping, processes music at an astounding rate—often with percussion. Last night, it was variations on Smoke on the Water.
-- At the office, I am performing digital transcriptions of back-list items. Carole gave me a list of ten or eleven backlist pieces that were not available from our web site; mostly for women's voices—and I have been contentedly doing new layouts from archive scans over the last three days.
The project I left unfinished last night was very crowded. The original engravings were done by hand in Korea. Beautiful assembly is difficult. When I came back to my desk this morning, I knew I had to start the layout over. I split apart all of the scanned systems, and repasted them; cutting back density from four to three systems per page.
After a full day's work today, I have one relayout project left in this batch.
Friday, 17 April 2015
Friday, 17 April 2015
I had one item left on my list—to create a digital file of the violin part for The Lord's Prayer.
The Lord's Prayer is probably B. Cecil Gates' most successful publication. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has performed and broadcasted the piece since 1938.
Gates issued it through The Choir Publishing Co. in editions for Mixed Voices, Women's Voices, for Men's Chorus; for Solo Medium Voice and for High Voice.
An excellent optional violin obbligato, which was issued separately, accompanies each of these voicings—one in the key of D to accompany the high vocal solo and the chorals, and a version in C to accommodate the medium solo.
Considering the separate part; how to assemble it for download; I decided rather than to continue with a separate edition, instead to include a violin part with each edition.
This afternoon, I reassembled the SSA edition that I had finished yesterday, adding the violin part on page 7 out of 8, then took on the versions for Mixed Voices, and for Men's Voices; adding the violin obbligato page into each of them, and saving them all in digital form for upload to our web page and subsequent download by our customers.
I love doing this work.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Jerry Jackman Blog - week of 8 April 2015
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Our catalog has increased in size by double since 2009. Carole, Heidi, and I are working this week on a printed catalog edition for the Retail Print Music Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas at the end of the month.
There is more detail to check in that list than you can imagine—barcodes, prices, voicings...
For seven years, as a hobby, I have also played bass in a swing band called Mississippi Mood. Because of a recent change in personnel, I will be arranging more than before—and I am absolutely thrilled! The previous arranger, Lemoyne Taylor, is a consummate pro, and I will be challenged to the moon to make a contribution to his brilliant book.
At the moment, I am studying William Russo's Jazz Composition and Orchestration. Among other principles, this book discusses the use of quartal harmony—an area introduced to me by my teacher Robert P. Manookin while I was working on my composition degree.
I have loved all three of Russo's jazz orchestration books.
He is innovative.
He worked with Stan Kenton as an arranger and trombonist during the experimental years.
Along with the regular sections of the jazz band—saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and rhythm, Russo often included four celli—and his avant garde approach to classical music mixed with jazz makes him a rich study.
Our catalog has increased in size by double since 2009. Carole, Heidi, and I are working this week on a printed catalog edition for the Retail Print Music Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas at the end of the month.
There is more detail to check in that list than you can imagine—barcodes, prices, voicings...
For seven years, as a hobby, I have also played bass in a swing band called Mississippi Mood. Because of a recent change in personnel, I will be arranging more than before—and I am absolutely thrilled! The previous arranger, Lemoyne Taylor, is a consummate pro, and I will be challenged to the moon to make a contribution to his brilliant book.
At the moment, I am studying William Russo's Jazz Composition and Orchestration. Among other principles, this book discusses the use of quartal harmony—an area introduced to me by my teacher Robert P. Manookin while I was working on my composition degree.
I have loved all three of Russo's jazz orchestration books.
He is innovative.
He worked with Stan Kenton as an arranger and trombonist during the experimental years.
Along with the regular sections of the jazz band—saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and rhythm, Russo often included four celli—and his avant garde approach to classical music mixed with jazz makes him a rich study.
Jerry Jackman Blog - week of 1 April 2015
7 April 2015
At 11:00 a.m., I connected with Neil Burton in England by Facetime. I needed clearance for use of one of his photographs for the Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir series cover. He was very gracious. Face to face, he gave me carte blanch with two shots, then sent me original digital files for each.
This is the was the first time I have used Facetime for Jackman Music Corportion business, and the first for a European call. It was more effective and easy than I anticipated.
This afternoon I spent restoring the choral #00065 How Lovely Are the Messengers, from the oratorio, St. Paul, by Felix Mendelssohn for reprint. I created new engravings for page one to fix decaying art boards. This work is capably edited by Jerold Ottley.
5 April 2015
At least four of our choral publications were used in the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this weekend.
6 April 2015
I spent the rest of the day checking proofs from our printer. I have, at the moment, thirty one music publications in process—mostly choral.
2 April 2015
Reprints all day. Cindy presented me with about eighteen reprint request slips. One of the pieces, #00328 Two Austrian Alp Carols arranged by Donald Ripplinger, required that undertake new engraving to make corrections. We then restored the Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Series cover with new art and full-color photography. Tomorrow, I will update the rest of the pieces in that series with the new art, and will archive them all until the time that these layouts are needed for reprinting.
5 April 2015
At least four of our choral publications were used in the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this weekend.
6 April 2015
I spent the rest of the day checking proofs from our printer. I have, at the moment, thirty one music publications in process—mostly choral.
2 April 2015
Reprints all day. Cindy presented me with about eighteen reprint request slips. One of the pieces, #00328 Two Austrian Alp Carols arranged by Donald Ripplinger, required that undertake new engraving to make corrections. We then restored the Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Series cover with new art and full-color photography. Tomorrow, I will update the rest of the pieces in that series with the new art, and will archive them all until the time that these layouts are needed for reprinting.
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