User:Richard Mix
General information
Country of origin: USA (San Francisco Bay area)
Contributor since: 2004-06-23
Number of scores on CPDL: ~12
Works with editions by this editor: 410 (see list)
Contact information
e-mail: myname at excessivelywarmmail.com
Background
I am still using Sibelius 3, with which I have done professional work for Laureate Press. I'm also available for translation from French or German into English. My most recent gig, for a Corporate Council magazine reporter, was some Süddeutsche Zeitung reporting on the shocking pharmacological tests in Kano and resulting lawsuits, but I'm even quicker with musicological jargon.
Here's a blurb on my main line of work, updated December 3, 2011:
Richard Mix (bass) made his Bella Musica debut with Bach's Magnificat in 1996. He appears with over a dozen Bay Area opera companies singing a repertoire that embraces Wagner and Monteverdi as well as Scelsi and Stockhausen. A former cellist, he made his singing debut as Truelove in Berkeley Contemporary Opera's 1992 production of The Rake's Progress and went on to the Darmstaeter Sommerferienkurse für neue Musik, to which he was re-invited with the Patenring Award in 1994 and 1996. West coast premieres range from Arthur in Maxwell Davis' The Lighthouse to C.P.E. Bach’s 1789 Matthaeuspassion, and he is currently looking forward to staged productions of Vladimir in Butterfly Country, whose Nabokovian title role was written for him by his wife, Ann Callaway. He is a cantor at St. David of Wales Church in Richmond where he conducts the annual period-orchestra Messiah sing-along (Jan 5, 2012 at 7:00).
CPDL
Among my CPDL hobbies are:
- Refining & expanding Sacred music by season (taking the tridentine rite as relevant to the bulk of the literature) & Ordinary Time (relating to my Sunday job at St. David of Wales Church)
- Proselytizing for cpdl at Musica Sacra
- Categorizing Trent codices compositions
- Keeping an eye on Pages awaiting cleanup
- And of course uploading choir editions as I abandon hope of ever selling them.
I'm gathering thoughts for an upcoming concert at User:Richard Mix/Victoria Vespers, which should in time feed back into CPDL editing.
I'm experimenting with a sortable composer-page layout at User:Richard Mix/Purcell anthems
Toolbox
- UF motet database. for looking up titles/incipits
- To make parallel columns: <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width=100%> <tr><td valign="top">{{Text|Latin}} <poem> </poem> </td><td valign="top"> {{Translation|English}} <poem> </poem> </td></tr></table>