{"id":185,"date":"2023-05-19T17:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2023-05-19T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T00:28:04","slug":"opening-from-glassworks-by-philip-glass-corrected-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/music\/opening-from-glassworks-by-philip-glass-corrected-score\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Opening&#8221; from Glassworks by Philip Glass &#8211; Corrected Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was under the impression that the Sheet Music Plus company was a reputable source of musical scores when I bought a PDF copy of Philip Glass&#8217; <i>Opening<\/i> from them. I was wrong! The score had at least 6 mistakes! I struggled for months with it, until I listened to Glass play it (many, many times) and identified the errors. This was not a quick process, mostly because I trusted that Sheet Music Plus must be selling accurate copies. It took me from last August 2022 until May 2023 to get it all figured out.<\/p>\n<p>When I contacted Sheet Music Plus to notify them of the mistakes and request a refund, they dismissed me out of hand. There were no refunds on PDFs, period, even defective ones. After I posted several negative online reviews, then they replied that I should have notified them <i>immediately<\/i>. Well, I just couldn&#8217;t figure out the problem <i>immediately<\/i>, I&#8217;m not that great a musician!<\/p>\n<p>So, for anyone else who&#8217;s been burned on this score, here&#8217;s a corrected PDF. If Philip Glass requests its removal, I will comply. <a href=\"http:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/downloads\/Glass-Opening_from_Glassworks.pdf\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Opening&#8221; from Glassworks by Philip Glass &#8211; Corrected Score<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was under the impression that the Sheet Music Plus company was a reputable source of musical scores when I bought a PDF copy of Philip Glass&#8217; Opening from them. I was wrong! The score had at least 6 mistakes! I struggled for months with it, until I listened to Glass play it (many, many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkorchok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}