I don't know Scott personally but he's a wonderful (and impressive) player. One story I know about him regards his recording of the Ewazen Concerto. For those that are unfamiliar, there are a few runs that are optionally 8va - High C and higher. Ewazen wasn't clear on the range of the horn and originally intended for those runs to be down an octave. Scott practiced them (and recorded them) in the original octave. -William In a message dated 2/15/2011 12:44:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
I agree with you Hans. E has always been one of my favorite keys for the horn. The only passage that used to give me a little extra practice panic was the aria in Cosi. I am sure there are others, but I haven't come across them in my limited experience. In the day when I was playing stuff like this, I was playing a 103 and I had to play it on the B flat side. When playing the second horn solo, I could stay on the F side (though I threw the B flat down for the written F# at the top). Had I the smarts (or the $$) to get an extended (or shortened) slide like many of our illustrious well-known colleagues (or a stopping valve), I would have made life a bit easier ... but what's the fun in that?? As far as Armida is concerned, Scott is a long time friend (you are friends as well?) and he is a fine player. When he tells me the parts are tricky, I tend to believe him. Thanks for the recording suggestion. best c >>> Hans Pizka <[email protected]> 2/15/2011 11:56 AM >>> Hello Chris, what is so difficult on the horn soli within Rossinís music ? is it the key ß Most of these soli are in E. Ooops, that́s the main difficulty for the notorious Bb-side players. But areńt these solos much easier on the F-side ? And they do not go high either, but have very tricky passages for the Bb-horn user. These soli are not longer than a few measures, like in "A Turk in Italy" or "Il Barbiere". Every reasonable horn player must be able to play them in public after reading or/and playing them through just a few times. All these soli are quite common stuff. This like passages are all included in the two Kopprasch books, - and as they were written in a natural horn style, the technical difficulties are limited, - except the tonality E, which still horrifies the Bb-users & Bb-thinkers. Armida should not be any exception. As Rossinís father was a horn player, Rossini knew very well, how to write for the horn in a way, that his compositions could be performed properly, even then back. ############################################################################ ####### Am 15.02.2011 um 14:55 schrieb Chris Wilhjelm: > > As a dabbler in the conducting world I feel a real need to get out in front of what's going to happen here (it's a conductor thing) > > Yes, I do know the difference between a bull and an orchestra, > > I feel sorry for the snake and I'm okay with no skid marks > > and I know that a conductor buried up to his neck in sand means that you ran out of sand. > > of course this knowledge dates from the time before I turned from the Force and went to the dark side. > > I was speaking to my friend Scott Brubaker on Sunday and he told me that the Met Opera will be doing a set of performances of Rossini's Armida starting next week (with Renee Fleming) > I have NEVER heard this - he went on to say that there are big solos for 1st and 3rd horn in the overture. Does anyone have an mp3 or know of a good performance available? > > As an aside, The Ridgewood Concert Band is performing the Overture to Siege of Corinth (another little played Rossini Opera with a beautiful horn solo in the overture) Tuesday 2/22 (principal horn, Carolyn Kirby is terrific). This will be a joint concert with the Texas Christian U. Wind Symphony - info on the RCB website. > > best to all > Chris > > > >>>> Walter Lewis <[email protected]> 2/15/2011 8:20 AM >>> > Paul, > > As we all know, some conductors just need shooting! > > Steve Mumford and I know of one here in Metro Detroit that is so bad, that he can't conduct electricity let alone a symphony orchestra. This guy falls into the category I just mentioned. Shooting his would be the only merciful thing to do for the sake of music. > > Walt Lewis, > > --- On Mon, 2/14/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Musicianship > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 10:35 PM > > Hey Jerry, > > What if it is a conducting class and someone is shooting at the > conductor ?? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Houston <[email protected]> > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 7:33 pm > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Musicianship > > On 02/14/2011 04:06 PM, David Goldberg wrote: >> He might be on the illegal side too. I just looked for information >> about this - it appears to be illegal in the USA. Recommend that > anyone >> interested in this, research first. > > You beat me to it. I was going to note the need for caution (or, at > least, discretion). Disabling cell phones prevents folks from using > them for emergency purposes. If a student in the class, for example, > started shooting at folks (well, it's happened...), no one could call > 911 and report it. > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/corno911%40aol.com > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/lewhorn9%40yahoo.co m > > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/cwilhjelm%40pascack .k12.nj.us > > _______________________________________________ > 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/cwilhjelm%40pascack .k12.nj.us _______________________________________________ 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
