Working conditions

I'm not being paid. I'm a freelance composer. These are the rules: 1. You don't get to discuss instrumentation or orchestration with me. I'll set an ensemble, and you'll tolerate it. There are people who I would ask for advice; pretty confident these days, though. 2. You're only licencing the notes on the page, not any revisions. Revisions are paid separately. Not adding guitar to the finale of the quartet. Why? It'll sound different live. Guitars can't get the tunings; strings can. There's an expectation of a bold, slightly accelerated pulse. Māori rhythm (literally). 'The Māori' is supposed to be an illusion the quartet conjures, not a human specimen. It's not supposed to be a quintet. Usually, people don't tell composers they should put their first instrument in every piece. Are all Salina's masterworks for solo violin? Only because I'm Māori and they can't play guitar. It's a string quartet, not a play. Theatrics in classical music are as ham-fisted as show tunes in a concert hall. One of my goals is to encourage Māori to take up orchestral instruments. 3. If you want to play it and it hasn't been premiered, pay as if it was commissioned. Be fair -- you're too afraid to talk to me, but you want to use my sound. Y'all have to meet me before I'll lift the boycott. Board execs, conductors .. that crowd. Have lunch with me. Negotiate via formal channels and negotiate in good faith. Pay me fairly, and admit that you were being bigoted while underestimating my music. If I'm not part of your social world, I'm unlikely to want to do concerts. I should make a decent wage, if not living wage or better, just for my music. That requires y'all paying me for my compositions. Publishing them or licencing them. Having my movies pirated is good, but having my scores pirated is awful.