ARTIST BLANKET PERMISSIONS (Songs You Can Step For FFR)

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this is one of the e-mails i sent out.... and all e-mails that i send out look similar to this, with the important information changed to match the specific person i'm sending it to:




Hello Mr. Penders,

My name is Michael Pollack and I am contacting you on behalf of the administration of the website www.flashflashrevolution.com . We are a Flash-based game simulation of the arcade game Dance Dance Revolution.

Our site featues over 170 songs for people to "dance" to, using their fingers. Most of our songs are in the Dance/Techno genre, but we do currently have 12 classical pieces and are looking to add many more. Some of our classical pieces are: Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Koraskov, Revolutionary Etude by Chopin, Pagannini's 5th Caprice, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. We also have 3 pieces already from performers on Classicalarchive: Brahms' 5th and 7th Hungarian Dance and Liszt's Grand Galop Chromatique. Basically, we look for more upbeat classical pieces, and a few of your performances caught my ear. If you would like to try our game, the link is: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/FFR_the_Game.php

We are requesting authorization to use your renditions of classical pieces that can be found on Classicalarchives.com. We would also love to use original pieces of yours that would be appropriate for our site. We would not modify your files in any way and would give you complete credit for performing them and/or composing them. They would be played and listened to by our users, who currently number over 1,000,000. As our site is free to our users, we would be unable to provide any form of compensation for allowing us to use your work. You would be helping almost 1 million teenagers to further appreciate Classical Music.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me back. Thank you for your time and consideration.




Sincerely,

Michael Pollack