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My name is Emily Grishman and I'm receiving a Tony Honor for Music Copying. ��
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Congratulations. What does this honor mean to you? This means everything because it's not a competitive award and it was granted to me based on a letter written by colleagues of mine
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So to receive appreciation and acknowledgement from the giants in my field really means everything to me
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Okay, music copyists, that's a big job because you copy all the music as it's written or when it's orchestrated. Exactly
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You give it to the orchestra members, right? Yes, and you know, but most people, you're great Richard, because most people give me the blank stare, music copying, what is it
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And so I just say if you go, anybody, if you go to a show and you walk down to the front and you look over the pit
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and you see all these people there with music stands in front of them and you say
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nobody ever asked this, but who made that? And I am not the creative person, I don't invent it, but I am the scribe, I'm the music editor, I'm the librarian
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and dare I say hand holder for the music team. See that is wonderful because you know, dance arrangements change on a Monday, they have to be copied for a Wednesday, this is what you do
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How about on Monday for a Monday? See, okay. Yes, exactly, you know
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So it's fast paced during the production period, especially during previews. That's the main, that's the toughest part
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But it must be so great. You get that phone call saying, oh my gosh, a new number is going in tomorrow
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Yes, exactly. It is, you know, it is except when they decide it at 3 o'clock and they want to rehearse it at 6.30
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It's going into 90 days. Then not so much. But yes, seeing how things change and you know, I'm the one, I mean I have all the files
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So for me, you know, I know where it started and I know where it ended and I know where the bodies are buried
