It's an article, and a lovely one at that. There are many fantastic women horn players out there, past and present. I think the issue here is a traditionally male orchestra, accepting a woman brass player for the first time. For us Americans think of it like a 8D player getting into the Chicago symphony.
--- On Thu, 9/2/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Hornlist] FW: FW: [horn] First Lady of Horn To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 2:45 PM Yes, but he is writing to England about an English-trained English woman that made it into THE Berlin Philharmonic (as the first female in the Brass section). Since we Americans are frequently guilty of the same hubris, perhaps we can be more forgiving (even though I see no mention of one of my favorite highly successful American female hornist, Gail Williams). I personally enjoyed the story, the tasteful use of embedded files, AND the shift of perspective (from American to British) that Mr. Ree's accessible prose gave me. Respectfully Submitted, Scott Young > Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:24:33 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] FW: [horn] First Lady of Horn > > Well, if I had managed to get past the first sentence, I would have noticed > that he does get around to mentioning, rather dismissively, Helen Kotas. But > the fact that he knows about her only makes his first sentence that much more > absurd. --J > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/rob_schmidtke%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
