Perhaps I should come to the Forum more often - I learned of Tina's passing in the Newsgroup with great sadness. I now post here what I said then in response to Richard's announcement, in order to add a little to the tributes that others have already posted here.
Perhaps however the greatest tribute any of us can make to Tina is to listen to her work and in her own word "Enjoy".
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Tina, gone from us? Richard, I can scarcely bring myself to believe your
words.
Her ability to produce high quality scores was first class A* would have
been too low a grade for her. It was not just the ability to get the notes
onto e-paper but her surpassing ability to then turn those notes into music
for which she well earned her penname - Tinability.
Her work on Beethoven, that she succeeded with the Planets and Rachmaninoff
is great evidence of this. Perhaps only one thing stretched her too far, and
having seen her work here I can understand it but it was not so much a
limitation on her part but the limitations of midi and NWC that held back
her work on The Rite of Spring!
And then, who can forget the occasions when someone posted a request for
something and Tina would respond: "You mean [something like] this?" And then
her work on the mpc manual, her use of softfonts, her appreciation of the
new features introduced in NWC2 - GlobalMod! and the like - what a debt we
owe to her.
How hard her increasingly failing sight must have been for her, but how
valiantly in spite of this she pressed on. I am so sorry to hear of her
passing. And that we knew nothing of it for a year. God grant comfort to
John. And Richard, thank you for looking to include more of her work in the
Scriptorium.
Stuart
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PS Richard has put a copy of Tina's website, Keyboard Creations
http://nwc-scriptorium.org/kc_index.html, into the Scriptorium for us.
