I found this in my drafts from a couple of years ago. Well, this clearly isn’t my holiday postcard. I had just sourced a picture of the boat on which one of ‘my’ Glasgow music publishers sailed home from New York. No idea how long he’d been there, nor what he had been doing! A holiday? Business? Whatever, it’s nice to imagine …
(The card is from eBay, not connected with the Glasgow publisher, I hasten to add.)
Talking of America, after attending the IAML Congress, I had something American I needed to check out. If I had FOUND something interesting in the two new databases I’d learned about, then it would have been galling to have found them after completing my book draft.
I needn’t have worried – I found not a thing. So if ‘my’ cinema pianist did write stock music for silent movies, it didn’t end up in those databases. (I have no evidence that he did – it just would’ve been so cool if he had!) Anyone know of a database of UK stock music for silent movies?!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 