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Church Windows/Appalachian Spring Suite / Re: A new compilation.
« on: February 22, 2011, 01:00:03 AM »
Week must have been a typo - Ellen told me in February. Pretty simple.
Tom, I apologize if I offended you by quoting you. Also, when you stated "Church Windows" would ship in a week I wondered where you got your information; simple as that. I was under the impression one purpose of The Tape Forum was to announce such things as title shipment dates.

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Church Windows/Appalachian Spring Suite / Re: A new compilation.
« on: February 21, 2011, 01:06:38 PM »
FWIW, TomR (me) does not believe in wishful thinking. I was also quoted incorrectly - I was told Church Windows would arrive in February, not next week. February is not over yet.

Tom



Tom,

I may have posted the following in the wrong place so I'm post it here in reply to your quoted statement above.

The date of your post was Jan. 20 and you said "Church Windows will arrive next week", not sometime during the month of February. At the time of your post there were still eleven days left in the month of January. Perhaps I was mistaken about your wishful thinking but how did you came to the conclusion you would received Church Windows by the following week?
John


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Church Windows/Appalachian Spring Suite / Re: A new compilation.
« on: February 21, 2011, 12:44:50 PM »
John,

We transferred both the Respighi and the Copland at the same time. Most of the tapes have been duped, and the artwork is just about finished (as I understand...that's actually Doc's department.) I believe that these are in line to ship next, though I heard a rumor that there's a supply chain problem with one small part. Doc can update that when he has time. He's traveling right now for the HeadFi meet tomorrow.

We expect that the Series Three titles will be complete albums as they originally came out. But it's always possible that we'll surprise ourselves before we're done.

Paul,

Thank you for taking time to answer my question. On September 16th you posted the following: "Keith and I finally got a chance to get together and transfer the tapes for both Church Windows and Nojima Plays Liszt. We'll get started duplicating Church Windows next week, so it will probably be the next title shipped." There was no mention of Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite as part of the mix. It wasn't until February 9th (5 months later) that Doc mentioned, OBTW "Tam and Keith are planning a re-release of this album and for this they made the decision to combine Church Windows with Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite..." Then Doc went on to say that TTP would follow suit. This did not sound like something that was already 'in the can'. Perhaps Church Windows was not a big seller so combining it with Appalachian Spring would make sense from a business perspective but I think this should have been mentioned five months ago?

I certainly can't speak for others but is it any wonder people are not committing to Series Three before all the titles are settled on? I realize what you guys are doing is not easy work, far from it but an outlay of $3000 without any idea of what you'll end up with, or when, is not an easy decision, even with a 10 percent discount. Again I thank you for your time.

Regards,

John


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Timing is everything in life....Clifford Brown arrived and Church Windows will arrive next week!'

Tom

The date of your post was Jan. 20 and you said "Church Windows will arrive next week", not sometime during the month of February. At the time of your post there were still eleven days left in the month of January. Perhaps I was mistaken about your wishful thinking but how did you came to the conclusion you would received Church Windows by the following week?
John

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Church Windows/Appalachian Spring Suite / Re: A new compilation.
« on: February 18, 2011, 10:17:08 AM »
Respighi's Church Windows has been put out by Reference Recordings in a few different versions over the years. There is a 45 rpm version of Church Windows (RR-15), and there is a CD version that includes Poema Autumnale. Tam and Keith are planning a re-release of this album and for this they made the decision to combine Church Windows with Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite by the same Pacific Symphony Orchestra conducted by Keith Clark (RR-22), effectively combining the most moving pieces from two different albums. The two sessions were recorded in the same venue about 2-1/2 years apart (Santa Ana High School Auditorium). We have followed suit with this new compilation and the A reel of this album contains the Respighi while the B reel contains the Copland.

Back in September Paul reported that he and Keith Johnson met and transferred Church Windows. Now we hear there is another version coming out, a compilation to include Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite. Does this require yet another transfer session or was this done last September, too? What does this mean to the tape's release date? On January 20th TomR commented: "Clifford Brown arrived and Church Windows will arrive next week." Was that wishful thinking on TomR's part? It's a bit confusing. Will Series 3 bring us anymore "Best Of" albums?

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It's simply a matter of Paul and Keith finding the time to get together and make the transfers. They haven't been able to coordinate that yet, and we have been shipping series two albums as soon as we complete them, so other catalog numbers have gone out that have higher numbers. The catalog numbers were assigned some time ago, before we had a clear picture of which albums would be ready first.

So are you saying a lack of subscribers for Church Windows would have no bearing on when Paul and Keith find time to make the transfers? I?ve only see one other inquiry here about the delay in TP-014. At what point does the management group of The Tape Project make the determination there isn?t enough demand for a given tape and shelve it? What is a reasonable length of time paying subscribers should wait for tapes that are not making it into production? The subscription list was announced two years ago so it?s not as if it just snuck up on you.
John Beach

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We have our requests in for titles. By now you guys probably know that we don't announce them until the licenses are signed.

This implies that TP-014, Keith Clark/Pacific Symphony Orchestra: Respighi: Church Windows; Poema Autumnale has been licensed but to my knowledge no one at The Tape Project has been able to tell us when it will be issued. Doc, you said a couple of months ago Paul would have an answer upon his return from vacation. Has anyone seen a release date for this tape? What seems to be the holdup? In the mean time three tapes further along in the queue have been shipped or is about to be shipped still no one can tell us when Church Windows gets shipped. How about it Doc? Is there a problem?
John Beach

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Tape Project Albums - general / Re: What's shipping next?
« on: August 25, 2010, 09:02:42 PM »
Starting to print the Little Hatch artwork today. We should see the first albums going out early next week.

A couple of months ago the question was raised as to when TP-014 (Church Windows) would become available. It was suggested Paul would have an answer upon his return from vacation. Did I miss the announcement date? If so, will the two Reference Recordings be released this year or not? When should those of us who purchased Reference Recordings titles (TP-014, TP-019) expect to receive them?

John Beach

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Heart Like a Wheel / Re: Breaking our own rule
« on: January 26, 2010, 10:48:52 PM »
I'm new at this so please bear with me. I thought when we met at the studio on October 24th that we listened to Paul's master copy of "Heart Like A Wheel". Wasn't that a useful demonstration of the quality of the tape? Like I said, I'm new at this so if I'm confused on this issue, forgive me.
John Beach

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