[Fmpro] ASCAP POLICY AT SUNDANCE

[Scott Szabo]

I agree with Pete. I played in bands since I was 15. I performed live
recently for the first time in years. I did some tunes with the guitar
player from my last band (12 years ago) for charity. I don't see how film
score composers could get up on a small stage and entertain. How would it
go? "Hi, I'm Scott Szabo. And tonight, while sitting on this bar stool,
going to play some cues from a film I scored recently, on my ipod.
Enjoy...oh, be good to your waiters and waitresses. They work hard for you."

That being said, I could see ASCAP providing a listening space (a couple of
CD players with headphones) for composer demo CDs and a table for free demo
CDs of ASCAP composers. What do you think of that idea?

Scott Szabo
Szabo Sound & Music
2400 Central Parkway, Suite C
Houston, TX 77092
713-956-7451
www.szabosoundandmusic.com


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fmpro-bounces+scott=szabosoundandmusic.com at nxport.com] On Behalf Of
Pete
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:16 AM
To: fmpro at nxport.com
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] ASCAP POLICY AT SUNDANCE

This looks like it's half-hour acoustic guitar sets in
a cafe/bar setting. I don't think it's an
anti-composer shut-out policy, it's just a
singer/songwriter based event. That's the target
audience for this show. There's no Hip Hop, no
Country, no Jazz, no Hard Rock, no Choral Music, no
Electronica, no Latin, no Orchestral Composers etc...

Pete


--- Mark Holden <markholden at aol.com> wrote:
> ASCAP POLICY AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
> 
> I'd like to raise a topic that may be worthy of the
> list's attention. ASCAP
> is representing only songwriters at the upcoming
> Sundance Film Festival
> Cafe, basically shutting-out score composers.
> 
>
http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/events/sundance/2008/schedule.aspx
> 
> I find this policy to be outrageous. To use money
> and resources earned by
> ALL the members of ASCAP to promote a single
> classification of writer is as
> wrong as it can be. And to exclude score composers
> from special promotion at
> a prestigious film festival is wholly bizarre!
> 
> Filmmakers need BOTH song and score in the vast
> majority of their
> productions, so why push song exclusively? What is
> the ASCAP leadership
> thinking? It's like selling bacon at a rabbinical
> convention-- it just don't
> smell right.
> 
> I submit it goes straight to the agenda of the
> Bergman administration: to
> MINIMIZE instrumental score. How do they do it?
> Let's look at the evidence.
> The usage weightings, the sponsorship of networking
> groups, and the tracking
> of performances through debacles such as MediaGuide
> ARE ALL SONG-CENTRIC.
> And that's just for starters...
> 
> Look, I'm not anti-song. There are songs in my
> catalog. I just want to know
> why ASCAP policy is so slanted against SCORE. Is
> there anyone else on this
> list that feels that ASCAP should balance their
> promotion of song and score
> at Sundance and elsewhere?
> 
> Please, let us have your opinions.
> 
> Very best,
> 
> Mark Holden
> 
> BTW, I heard tonight from the head of BMI Media
> Relations, Hanna Pantle, who
> assures me that BMI is promoting songwriters and
> composers in equal numbers
> at Sundance.


 
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