[mb-style] Bach passions and CSG

[Brian Schweitzer]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian Schweitzer wrote:
>  > A side note to this, by the way, I've noticed a few new classical
>  > editors just in the past few days who have been going through and
>  > either adding new releases or editing existing releases into the "no
>  > work in the title" format you're suggesting; when I've asked why,
>  > they've said they're using some of the trial-balloon edits like this
>  > one as examples from "classical editors who know how to do it".
>
>  Any examples of this? I've been very good at keeping my
>  vote-on-edits-for-your-subscriptions-queue empty the last weeks, and I
>  have not seen it. (Feel free to mail me in private, this is probably not
>  interesting for the general public.)

Not any particular ones I can point to offhand; I've been digging
through the "more obscure composers" section of my collection and
noticing more than a few of these editors that way, via the random
inlines: Zelenka, Steizel, Zazou, Schoenberg, etc - ie, composers not
in the top 100 artists list, where the classical part of the inline
kicks in, but there's no large outstanding queue (like Bach,
Beethoven, Mozart, etc) to hide them.

Anyhow, just was the general observation that we all do need to keep
it in mind; perhaps even an annotation when we do trial balloon
releases, something like "This is not entered according to current
guidelines, please check the style list for details, but please do not
copy this style", or something like that?  I get the sense that our
average editors do quickly figure which are the 8 or 10 or so editors
active in classical, and (those not simply dumping from freedb and
running) do try to imitate our edits.

Brian