- by Art Sulit, www.MuSeeks.com/ArthurSulit
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Johann Pachelbel is someone from the Baroque period whom I don't know much about. Someone please send me a bio, and I will give you full credit! Please send to classic-music @(at) mindspring.com
Also, every time I play a wedding, the bride for some stupid reason always request's Pachelbel's thorougly lame 'Canon in D'. Heavily over-played, it is a droning no-good work, all to common and distateful, belying ignorance, and not originally intended for weddings. If you want a really special wedding, then go for Grieg's 'Wedding at Troldhaugen', and avoid the same old Wagner's Wedding March, which is from his opera Tannhauser about a doomed relationship. Dumb people, wake up!
And you wedding planners: make sure you pay the organists same as you would the catererand videographer--don't insist on this per service $150 crap. You can't get great music for that cheap-o amount, because that doesn't even cover the practice hours, preparation and driving around required. Instead, the better weddings spend a few thousand dollars on the music alone, to really make it special.
Why should food preparers & videographers get paid thousands for less difficult work, while your composer-organists are forced to give you only schlock? Thorougly backwards and ridiculous. You'll ruin your own weddings that way. Over 50% of you will come crying to your counsellors later on when the divorce papers are filed, losing over half your property...and this is exactly what you yourself asked for when you abuse God's music ministers looking to cut corners on your own wedding! Is that worth the mere $150 you pay for cheap commercial music? Do you want to risk your own relationship, by starting out on immoral grounds? I'd show a little more love, respect and dignity if I were you, so that you will get love and care also in return. This is a special art, not a meat factory.
Also, you wedding couples: don't you dare ask another lame-ass videographer to pirate music onto your wedding videos for you. You both would be participating in Federal Criminal acts if you do (or did) so, and will eventually be prosecuted, with statutory minimum fines between $750 and $30,000 per song pirated without permission. With each song you synchronize to picture written after approx 1925, you are required to get the songwriter's / publisher's permissions first, and generally pay a licensing fee, depending on the size of your audience.
It takes over $80,000 to make a single recording sometimes, so you have no right to just go waltz around burning it to cd or on your videos. I am vocal about it here, because over 99% of vidographers I surveyed have reported that you all don't have any conscience about this, so you unwittingly invoke a curse among your wedding and your family, the more you pull this shit. Enough already! God will be your judge! And so will Pachelbel!