Re: [F_MINOR] OT: Question about Recording Contracts

[lstanwyk <lstanwyk@RYERSON.CA>]

Sounds like an intriguing story. Would love to read it when it's
finished.  I've always been a fan of books/stories/films based on
musical life.  Is anyone from F_Minor familiar with the 19th c. novelist
Henry Handel Richardson?  See
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/r/r52mg/. She (used a male
pseudonym) wrote a book called 'Maurice Guest', which is a fascinating
look at music student life in Leipzig during the 1890s.  The book was
quite shocking for it's time, i.e., contained a character names Heinz
Kraft, a homosexual pianist, etc.  There's was also a cad of a violinist
character who some say was based on Strauss.

Cheers :o)

"Anne M. Marble" wrote:
>
> From: lstanwyk <lstanwyk@RYERSON.CA>
> > Hi Anne:
> >
> >         Are you looking for factual input?  Certainly this young
> violinist
> > could get a good lawyer and break his contract based on a viable medical
> > condition.  I'm all too familiar with the anxieties associated with
> > performing - that's why I quit musicial life in my mid-20s.  Life as a
> > musician on the road is not for the feint of heart :P
>
> That's a good point. However, in this case, the musician probably would
> have been happy just to pay them off. (Luckily, he had money. I like giving
> my characters plenty of money but making their lives miserable. <g>)
>
> The real reason he had the anxiety and wanted to stop performing was
> because of the guilty he felt after killing a blackmailer. It was pretty
> much in self-defense, but for various reasons (because he went, uhm,
> overboard), he had to get rid of the body and conceal the murder. So he
> would have preferred to get out of the contract than go to a doctor, for
> fear that the doctor might somehow figure out what was wrong.
>
> NOTE: It should be stated right here that this musician is not based on any
> actual performers! :)
>
> P.S. Yes, I know I am cruel to my characters. ;-)
>
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