
Originally Posted by
jsrnephdoc
Aren't there trademark or intellectual property statutes that require album covers to display correctly and identify the ensemble actually performing the music on the recording?
I don't know anything about UK law. It was quite common, in the days of records and CDs, for companies that specialised in low-cost albums to use random photos for their covers.
About female orchestral musicians, as we've seen the violin sections nowadays are often at least half female, and flutes mostly female.
I know a couple LA area professional "sax guys" who are female, but there's a built-in prejudice, even if the women really good, which these are. (A "sax guy" generally plays sax, flute, clarinet, and even oboe, and oftentimes pennywhistle, bamboo flutes, panpipes, etc.)
Percussion and Brass are perhaps the most persistent male bastions in Orchestras. I play every year for the She Can Play Brass concert which raises scholarship money for promising young female Brass players. (I've tried to talk them into using one of our local superb female pipers, who know all about fighting gender bias, but they seem to like me.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 27th March 25 at 03:59 PM.
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