Bravo, bravo. But that´s not in music only. We see that day by day everywhere but it might be different in fields you might explain much better than me.
Let´s smoke the peace pipe (not inhale, off course !) & bury past differences. I wish you a good year to com. Regards Hans ################################################################ Am 11.12.2010 um 20:30 schrieb [email protected]: > These things perpetuate themselves unfortunately. > > I have been to a few auditions where people who breathed in the middle of a > phrase in Tchaik 5 or had no musicality at all on a Mozart concerto often > moved ahead to the next round simply because no horn player (including the > conductor) was on the panel. > > Mediocrity perpetuates itself without any outside help. > > -William > > > In a message dated 12/11/2010 2:25:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 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/valkhorn%40aol.com > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
