As at least some members will know and have experienced there is a sad history attached to membership of a number of music forums. One joins a forum. One will almost enjoy reading the discussion of music and of composers. One may be able to download music (actually in reality vast quantities of music) which other members have so generously made available through uploads. One may post very, very frequently.
.......and then, SOMETIMES, forum politics intrude into one's pleasure and things can turn sour, perhaps even very sour!! There are disputes, sometimes very bitter and nasty in nature. Some members end up being banned from participation, some leave in disgust. Some forum administrators are or turn into power-crazed dictators. Some-and I speak from personal experience-are so upset by the cruel abuse to which they are subjected that they (no doubt cravenly) abandon their responsibilities and feel they have no option but to go into prolonged hibernation for their own mental well-being.
This is NOT inevitable. With good sense, good humour, civility and proportionate responses there is absolutely no reason why this new Forum cannot prosper. I have full confidence in Albion as Administrator.
The downside is that what was written on and what was downloaded to a forum one has left remains there even if the authors have left.
My understanding is that Albion has been able to save the totality of the British and Irish Music Archive-the most comprehensive, valuable and important such archive of broadcast music in existence, I think anywhere!
As for the rest......?
As I said almost all the Orchestral music written by non-British composers uploaded to AMF I downloaded to my PC. (And NO I have not actually listened to most of the music!).
Is there a catalogue? Well, yes, the music was "catalogued" in the appropriate sections on AMF in the sense that one could trawl through scores of pages on that forum to see what had been uploaded.
Did I catalogue the music I downloaded? Well, yes, I did...........BUT my "catalogue" is just a word document in alphabetical order by compoer of all the orchestral music I had downloaded before my sudden and sad departure from AMF.
.......and another big BUT! The list is 550 pages long!! With seven or eight compositions on each page we are talking about at least 4,000 pieces of music.
With the best will in the world I could not possibly re-upload all of this.
Perhaps there might be some clever "technical" way in which I could copy the lot?
I could certainly tidy up my own "catalogue" and make that available in some appropriate format.
I suppose that the "offer" I made in a previous post was predicated on former members of AMF having lost particular downloads. I apologise unreservedly if the offer has been misleading!
I am however more than happy to consider any suggestions that do not entail me spending days/weeks in front of my pc. Spending too long in a sedentary position in front of a computer ended up damn near killing me in 2018 when I suffered an embolism which landed me in hospital.
(If you have managed to read all this I congratulate you!! Those who know me will recognise my continuing abject failure to avoid prolixity!)
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