Finale 2007a arrives in cyberspace

MakeMusic has released the first update, but some of the bugs I experienced don’t seem to have been addressed. The 2007 update was worth the cost, and recent jobs more than paid for the update. More overnight...

Found myself on Google blog search . . .

Since Google can find blogs for you too, I’ve successfully turned myself up on Google. Whew! Sort by date helps. Below my blog I found this movie review. How about that. Later. . .

What I do

Now this is the post that it would be nice for Google to catch.

Since I discovered I have a very good aural memory in my mid-teens, even though I hadn't taken piano lessons, I elected to take on music as a career. I discovered a talent for transcribing music from recordings (since I have perfect pitch), and at the same time learned how professional orchestrating and copying is done, so I've moved ahead in that line of work. Unfortunately I've experienced serious setbacks in the past few years, as change has been inevitable and I wasn't quite prepared for it. Be that as it may, here goes:

• Music copyist (extraction/reconstruction of pc-stored data, and new data entry) using Finale 2003 or 2007 exclusively. Recently reconstructed a one-act opera running a few hundred pages.
• Orchestrator/arranger/transcriber: Numerous works of this type for concert band, during my tenure from 1993-2005 as a music librarian (details available so e-mail me). Also recently reconstructed a 1912 operetta for a prestigious midwestern company.
• Long-time Mac & Finale user, also experienced with Adobe software (early user of InDesign).
• This list will be enlarged and updated going forward.

It would be improper on this blog to directly do business, but e-mail is welcome. More later.

Companion blog started, called SchweiBlog 07

I’ve started a companion blog to this one for personal stuff, while this one will be for my professional music stuff. I’ll put crosslinks in when it’s appropriate. Hope this works for me.

Been Away A While

Ummm... time to start blogging in earnest before time runs out! More tomorrow morning.