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p2pnet news view | Music:- “There’s no doubt Casals was a genius. So when he says of Guillermo Venegas Lloveras, ‘I know of no composer in the history of music who, without study, has composed at his level,’ the statement means something.”
‘Casals’ is Pablo Casals and when I (JN) wrote that last November, I was prefacing an item by Guillermo Venegas Lloveras’ son, Rafael, a frequent p2pnet poster.
I also said the Venegas family has been, “royally screwed, blued and tattooed by the corporate music industry”.
Here’s Rafael again, this time with a piece on the Guillermo Venegas Lloveras CD, “as performed by a wonderful singer, Diana Olivia Valle.
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About the songs in the record and the singer, that is a matter of hearing. For that just go to our web page at http://gvenegas.com. Song clips can be heard. The CD is “Diana y Aquella Noche” (Diana and That Night).
The CD has several ballads, such as Aquella noche, a llulaby (La muñeca se durmió), a Russian song (Mi balalaica), a Tango (Invernal) and a ranchera, Despedida.
A story about the CD’s music is in order.
No composer/songwriter’s history in recent history has been as tortuous as that of Guillermo Venegas Lloveras.
Pablo Casals, the cellist and one of the greatest 20th century musicians, praised him and other very knowledgeable musicians have called Guillermo the greatest songwriter.
Because he concluded early in life that music publishers and record companies operating in his homeland, Puerto Rico and producing records with his songs in Puerto Rico and abroad, were less than honest when it came to paying royalties, he lost interest in having his music published and recorded.
Musically, he led a reclusive life. Actually Guillermo made no money from his music. He spent more money producing one recording he made than all the royalties he earned as a composer. A result is that only a small fraction of his music has been recorded, with very few of the recordings sold outside of Puerto Rico.
The upside here is that most of his great music has never been recorded or heard outside of Puerto Rico and that creates new opportunities for artists who are looking for new but great songs. Some of those songs are on the new Diana Olivia CD.
Then after Guillermo died in 1993, his children heirs (including myself) had to struggle in court several music publishers and record companies because his music had been stolen or used by record companies, small and big, without any licenses. The end of the struggle is not in sight yet.
Because we (Guillermo’s children) have had to spend much of our money and time on legal copyright matters. We were guilty only of inheriting the rights to his music, but others wanted the music. As a consequence, it is not until recently that we have been able to do the recording we are announcing here.
An interesting licensing innovation on this CD is a printed statement on the cover:
“This CD may be performed on radio and public places anywhere in the world. It’s our way of helping radio stations and businesses, through simplicity.”
With this record they can perform music publicly without doing impossible to do copyright and performance rights research and without taking huge (the ridiculous up to $150,000 in statutory damages per infringement) legal risks .
This is the type of innovation that is needed to get great music heard again, without lawsuits. The way it use to be originally.
You are all invited to visit http://www.gvenegas.com to her clips of the CD tracks.
Diana Olivia has her own web page: http://dianaolivia.com.
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