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New Distribution for RobertSterlingMusic.com
It’s official… It was announced yesterday at the Alleluia Conference (Baylor University, Waco) that Semsen Music is now distributing my online catalog of choral and orchestral music. (Includes all the anthems and orchestra arrangements found here on RobertSterlingMusic.com) I’m excited
This Feels Different
Technology has disrupted and altered the music business many times in the past. It’s not a New Thing, by any stretch of the imagination. The invention of the printing press was a radical change for music. The player piano came
The Legacy Series Has Arrived
It’s here. A few months back I announced plans to release a series of “legacy” titles – music from my earlier years that had gone P-O-P! Permanently Out of Print. Now I will admit there have been creative efforts from my
“Legacy” Titles to Return
One of the great frustrations for any composer/arranger of printed music is that much of what one writes is doomed to eventually go POP! – “permanently out of print.” It’s one of those cold decisions publishers have to make when
The New Reality
When I first became a consumer of recorded music, most of my friends purchased 45s. I typically opted for LPs, which were not only a better bargain (more music for the money), but also they also had a lot of
Keeping Up
When I entered the music business in the very late 1970s, how was I to know the music industry of the 20th century was at a peak and on the verge of a cataclysmic shift? This shift would occur gradually,
New Music for Orchestra
A year ago, I launched a new line of orchestra arrangements – for the “Modern Orchestra,” separating these new charts from the more symphonic arrangements that had preceded them. It seemed time that I should add to that little line
Ending Your Anthem: Go Big or Go Home?
Every composer/arranger’s dilemma (at one point or another): How do I end this anthem??? I’ve run out of ideas!After all, how many ways can one finish an SATB choral piece? If you write for choirs long enough, and do as many
WRITING. ABANDONING. (A Musical Tale)
In 1991, while still a newly-signed writer/arranger with Word Music, I took my first shot at the art and craft of musical theater. Or, to be more accurate – church musical theater. One needs to understand that “church” is a powerful modifier
Finale’s Finale
The End of an Era and What It Means to Music Geeks A bomb dropped on the music industry yesterday when it was announced that the venerated music notation program, Finale, the software users loved to hate, would cease to
Adventures in Rewriting – “Turning My Steps”
“Writing is rewriting.” I wasn’t the first to say it. I wouldn’t be surprised if that quip pre-dates Shakespeare. But it’s an important truth for writers to accept as a crucial part of their creative efforts. It’s a (sometimes brutal) reality
Life Its Own Self
I may have outdone myself this time… going a full seven months between blog posts. That may well be a new record for the World’s Laziest Blogger. Alert the folks at Guinness! It’s not like I’ve not written anything in