Good morning, all! I slept very well, although the dreams, which came fast and furious, were certainly bizarre. In the one I vaguely recall, i was caught up in a production of SWEENEY TOOD and a group of touring high school kids, missing luggage, bus troubles, etc.
This morning I have another round of the McGlinnventory, which will be to check item numbers on a few of the Schoenberg and Wagner Editions for pricing. Our paralegal Geri is wonderful, but she's no musician, and a lot of her information needs to be corrected and clarified before price lists go out. For instance, in the Schoenerg Edition we have a listing for EWARTUNG, but in the complete published edition there are two volumes listed, one the piano-vocal score (Series IIIB/6,1) for $74.00 and one the critical edition of the full score (Series IIIB/6,2) for $314.95. My inventory list omits the crucial series numbers.
The new Wagner edition is even more expensive and we're missing volumes in the series, so I cannot at times even offer for a sale a complete opera. For the FLYING EDITION there are five volumes:
Part One (Series 4/1): Full Score Act One $279.95
Part Two (Series 4/2): Full Score Act Two $287.95
Part Three (Series 4/3): Full Score $397.95
Part Four (Series 4/4): correspondence, notes, remainder Act Three $427.95
(Series 24) Documents, sketchest, correspondence, and Notes $271.95
We have four of the volumes and I assume it's the complete opera in four vols., but until I check it out, I'm stuck. After that, when we start biddding lists for prospetive buyers, who wants to pay $1393.00 for a (possibly) incomplete critical edition of THE FLYING DUTCHMAN? Even at 50% off, that's a lot of money!
I think we have one volume of the RIENZI edition (the inventory list doesn't say which volume), and there are at least two more volumes, so I can't even offer a complete edition. I wouldn't pay $100 for one used volume knowing I'd have to put out $400-700 for the rest of the edition.
I think a lot of these editions will be a tax writeoff to university libraries before the estate is settled. I think most of the folk interested in McGlinn's estate are hoping we're selling the complete score for ANYTHING GOES or SHOW BOAT, bit that isn't the case.
So, when you consider that McGlinn's apartment walls were filled with scores of this value, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he died in complete poverty with no electric power in his apartment, what the hell?
