[Dixielandjazz] Who is BMI?

[Mike]

Your story is fairly similar to mine with a few differences.

I joined ASCAP on recommendation from a few of my college 
professors who thought that I write good material. I don't 
really expect to get very much if anything from ASCAP but for me 
it will be mostly a networking thing. I don't agree with 
everything that ASCAP says or does; I'm also sure that there are 
people who don't agree with organizations that they are members 
of(unions and the like). We deal with these people & 
organizations because sometimes it's necessary. Such is life.

Mike




Dan Augustine wrote:
> List-Message-Recipient: mike at railroadstjazzwest.com
> Folks--
>     Well, i bin, man and boy, a member of ASCAP since about 1976 or so, 
> ponying up $10 or $20 a year every year since then, and i have never 
> gotten a damn dime from them.
>     Admittedly, my reason for joining was poor: i arranged a piece 
> called _Canzon Trigesimaquinta_ by Tiburtio Massaino (a contemporary of 
> Giovanni Gabrieli, in the early 1600's) for 4 antiphonal brass quartets 
> (published by G. Schirmer), and it cannily occurred to me that this 
> would be a perfect piece to play to demonstrate the latest technology in 
> sound recording, Quadraphonic Sound!  (The piece calls for a quartet of 
> brass instruments in each corner of a room, or auditorium.)  How many of 
> you ever bought a Quadraphonic recording? I rest my case.
>     Sadly, even though i sold a number of copies of the arrangement, 
> which was also recorded by the University of Minnesota brass ensemble in 
> the 1980s, ASCAP never sent me any money.