Agreed on all counts! Sometimes you just have to realize when faced with these sorts of things that tomorrow the sun will rise as it always does and at the very least at least you can take care of your own happiness. I mean, what, if anything, will matter millions of years from now? -William In a message dated 12/11/2010 2:39:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
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/valkhorn%40aol.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
