Answer is simple:

GET OUT OF YOUR BED MUCH EARLIER, no matter when you have gone sleep.

Some grimasse exercises with or without mirror, just to relax your  
face muscles, which should be relaxed after a few hours anyway.

But, have you ever thought, that you might use too much front  
pressure ????? As you play 4rth, there should be no exhaustment. If  
you have a performance on 4rth, do not poooh-poooh too much. There is  
no "Sherman-tank-noise" necessary in classical music. And nobody says,  
that all dynamics must be at maximum loudness. There is no maximum in  
the music.

There is a simple rule: if you cannot listen the other voices, you are  
much too loud definitely.

Use your brain to avoid burned through chops.

In the music wold, it is not necessary that YOU be heard. Let this  
business for those, who play the solo or the melody line. Be happy,  
that you can support them. Be happy with being part of the whole  
ensemble.

Music has no place for a loudness competition.

Well, these little solos in Flying Dutchman Ouverture can make players  
nervous like hell. "Have seen cows vomiting", so the proverb.
Big mouth before the performance, but   "fffffa-a-a t-t-tu-u-ut-t-t-  
to-o-otfff- - - - t-foo-oo-t-tu-u-t-tfhoo-o-ot----t-ta-a-a-" (the  
colleagues):-ha-ha-ha ....."

Stop bear after performances, so to get up from the materrasse EARLY,  
so your body is awake long before the start of the rehearsal. I said  
LONG BEFORE.

AND STOP PRESSING !!!!

BTW: if the solo is marked "p", think of a bit soloistic piano.

This solo is one of the most popular "laugh numbers" in the horn  
orchestra literature. The other one is the No.2 in the real opera,  
also in piano, 2nd horn enters with 1/16 f# below staff, followed by a  
1/2 note f# & slurs up for a tritunus to the c1. All in very slow  
tempo. An incredible laugh number, if the 1st horn has a dirty look to  
the 2nd just before the solo & makes a puckering mouth: pfffft-pffft.  
Works 100%.
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Am 14.06.2010 um 16:11 schrieb William.S.Gross:

> A problem I've been fighting for a while is lack of flexibilty in the
> morning. For example, When we did the overture to Dutchman , there is
> a 4th solo marked p that I never get out at less than a F during
> morning rehearsals. I had no problem at the reformance.
>
> I've got no problems in the late eveninng or night.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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