Hello Hans: Do you set out to be insulting...and overly egotistical...or does that just come naturally to you?
I'm not nearly as 'professional' as you in that I've not played in the amazingly fabulous orchestras you have (NO saracasm intended OR implied in that last sentence...). There are many decisions in my life others can and have taken exception to...though I find it odd that the fact that I derive benefit from playing passages in our hall is one of them. Is the benefit I gain due to a severe lack of confidence, such that I must attempt to impress my colleagues by bothering them? Well...who cares? If that is what I must do to succeed, why would you care? I read most of your posts. You're a supremely intelligent and wise master of the horn. But I've seen this before with you...an arrogance that borders on the same kind of attempt to impress others with which you castigate me, and anyone else who 'practices' anywhere but at home. As they say in medicine: Physician...heal thyself. Just so in these boards. Perhaps we all should look in the mirror prior to taking quite so much joy in cutting someone else 'down to size'. Sandra Clark Toledo Ohio --- [email protected] wrote: From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> To: The Horn List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Any Ensemble Pet Peeve Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:58:43 +0200 Hello Sandra, why is it necessary to try out the halls´s respond to loud playing ? Exactly that is what divides professionals - I mean real professionals - from semi pro & amateurs. One has to develop the ability to respond to the halls acoustics spontaneously. Of what use should it be, playing loud in an empty hall, when the acoustic properties will change anyway & often dramatically when the hall is full with the audience. We experienced that once on our first Japan tour with a concert that started with Richard Strauss´ "Don Juan", Sawallisch conducting it 1974. The rehearsal in the Kosei nenkin kaikan was superb, but when we began the concert that evening, we received a big shock, but for a fraction of a second only, as we changed our sound emission according to the circumstances within a fraction of a second also. That´s it !!!! PS: I know why so many players play all the excerpts over & over before the rehearsal or the performance. Guess ?? Just to impress the other players. But when it comes to these solos, the same players are shitless scared anyway. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
