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Transposing a gender-swapped Pirates of Penzance

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:12 pm
by nichols
Over the last few years, I've been approached by several theatre companies about doing a gender-swapped Pirates of Penzance. The necessary, and vast, transposition work required to do so has always been the obstacle. I just saw paulsson's lovely engraving and immediately thought, he has the files! I would love to be put in touch with him to discuss creating a gender-swapped version that can be licensed out.

Thanks!

Re: Transposing a gender-swapped Pirates of Penzance

Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:31 am
by bicinium
I have dusted off my German (please don't laugh) and posted a message, which should get him notified by e-mail: https://imslp.org/index.php?title=Speci ... read=24172

Re: Transposing a gender-swapped Pirates of Penzance

Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 5:07 am
by FG1
I tried contacting Paulsson a number of times by every conceivable method last year to discuss his engraving of La Fille du Regiment. I had no success, and had to complete my job without access to his files.

This is the thread which tells the story.

https://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 121#p44121

I did have some success using Neuratron Photoscore on the PDF files, but I'm not sure it was worth the effort. I can PM a summary of the results if it would be helpful.

Re: Transposing a gender-swapped Pirates of Penzance

Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:48 am
by Backfire_22
Too bad, does anyone know how to contact him? I've read your initial thread and the story of that project, and it could be quite a fascinating thing to organise, play and watch.