July 19th 2008 Report

Very difficult to write this report, but here we go anyway.

The news is in that it might cost over two thousand pounds to use the Shostakovich music. And when you add the Bruckner to this, it comes to about two thousand five hundred...there’s some negotiations to get this figure down but I cant see it being reduced by much...I don’t know. The worst part of all this is that I don’t think I can spend that amount of money on this animation...because, I simply don't feel it's worth it. I feel terrible that the thing might not be set off on merry way into the world, to go off and visit the folks at the TCM short competition, I really do.

I didn’t realise that Mr Shostakovich was not past the eighty year copyright. The thing is though, his music is incredible, can't begin to tell you how big a fan I am of his stuff.