Dear friends, did you listen & watch the audition videos sent to youtube for the YTSO, perhaps ? Here is the link.
http://goo.gl/O5Whr Allow me to comment: There is one serious video only, Cooper from FtWorth, taken seriously, nicely dressed for a presentation, clean playing, nice tone, even with difficulties deciding & holding the tempo in the Beethoven Adagio. The Hungarian candidate used the "coverage of the church like acoustic" but played nicely also. But the others ? Recorded in the sleeping room chaos, dancing with the horn (would be another movie title: "Dancing with the Horn"), hairs not cleaned, videographed from below the horn (the guy with the big hairs), not even repeating the recording to eliminate wrong notes, some produced that many wrong notes one could write a tune using them; very free in their tempi; extreme hard tone; very funny phrasings in the Mozart; additional notes (ornamentation) in the Mozart (the south americans were masters with this !), etc. Some cannot master one trill at least. My question is now: how about self critics ? Does it exist with these young ladies & gentlemen ? I doubt that. Some of them seem to me having never listened to good recordings of the relevant pieces. What to do with their teachers ? They are responsible ! _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
