Re: Finale 27.4 released
Posted: 19 Dec 2023, 19:59
Oh, if only I weren't so old! (due to be 83 in February). If I weren't, I'm sure I would be using Dorico by now with (perhaps) something like the same fluency as Michel. However, I still feel reluctant to make the change, to the extent that if Finale becomes unusable on whatever hardware I use in future, I may just go back to doing all my scores in manuscript (with which of course I was fluent for most of my composing career) and hope that others may then be persuaded to get on with all the computer stuff from my MS.
Of course there is the business of making things available as PDFs which can be read on an iPad. Recently I was able to give some singers my latest minor edits in Finale generated PDFs before a performance, while the pianist who was using paper sheet music had to pencil these in.
At a concert in London on 17 November of songs relating to rain, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the invention of the Mackintosh raincoat, both of the two singers, and also the actor linking all the items, were reading from iPads, although the pianist preferred paper. This concert included the first performance of a rather bleak ≤9 minute vocal duet with piano by me as well as another premiere by Noah Max and songs by Schubert, Brahms, Debussy et al. A film of the entire concert was made and should be publicly available on-line for two or three weeks (no longer because of fees!) immediately after Christmas. When it is, if I remember I'll post a link here (apart from all else, it shows the convenience of iPads for singers in a full and varied programme).
At another concert I attended in London on my three week November visit, all the members of a piano quartet were using iPads for quartets by Bridge, Fauré and Brahms (the one with the gypsy rondo). However, all the members of an expanded LPO for Mahler 3 in the RFH appeared to be using paper, and I think all the singers for that too.
Of course there is the business of making things available as PDFs which can be read on an iPad. Recently I was able to give some singers my latest minor edits in Finale generated PDFs before a performance, while the pianist who was using paper sheet music had to pencil these in.
At a concert in London on 17 November of songs relating to rain, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the invention of the Mackintosh raincoat, both of the two singers, and also the actor linking all the items, were reading from iPads, although the pianist preferred paper. This concert included the first performance of a rather bleak ≤9 minute vocal duet with piano by me as well as another premiere by Noah Max and songs by Schubert, Brahms, Debussy et al. A film of the entire concert was made and should be publicly available on-line for two or three weeks (no longer because of fees!) immediately after Christmas. When it is, if I remember I'll post a link here (apart from all else, it shows the convenience of iPads for singers in a full and varied programme).
At another concert I attended in London on my three week November visit, all the members of a piano quartet were using iPads for quartets by Bridge, Fauré and Brahms (the one with the gypsy rondo). However, all the members of an expanded LPO for Mahler 3 in the RFH appeared to be using paper, and I think all the singers for that too.