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An interview with milt okun of cherry lane music group
Cherry Lane Music is an American music publisher based in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. It was founded in 1960 by Milton Okun in the apartment above the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. Cherry Lane Music built a wide range of high quality sheet music, DVDs, and educational tools for practicing musicians. In March 2010, Cherry Lane was acquired by BMG Rights Management, which had been formed in 2008 jointly by Bertelsmann AG and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. BMG operates Cherry Lane as a subsidiary.
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History
The mission statement of Cherry Lane Music, as once stated by John Stix (born 1953) — who had a long career at the company stretching back to 1983 and rose to become its top executive — was to "get sheet music out of the piano bench and onto the piano. By making a pact with our fans, we hope they will come to see our folios as more than just songbooks."
The print company's portfolio includes sheet music of performing artists from a wide variety of genres, including hits by Kenny Rogers, The Black Eyed Peas, John Denver, Elvis Presley, John Legend, Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, John Mayer, the soundtrack to the Pokémon franchise, the White Stripes to the Dave Matthews Band, Metallica, and Jack Johnson.
When BMG acquired Cherry Lane in 2010, the number of copyrighted musical works was around 150,000. The estimated acquisition price ranged between 85 and 100 million US dollars.
The company distributes through Hal Leonard, another US-based music publisher.
Selected types of folios
Cherry Lane provides a number of different kinds of personality folios aimed at musicians of all skill levels.