Dear Wilbert,
That horn player from the Florida Orchestra was James Wilson; I agree, I
find him to be a wonderful horn player; he teaches at University of South
Florida. I attended a master class of his in December, and he played a
very interesting quartet with two of his graduate students and the fourth
horn player (I believe it was, but he could've been second; I cannot
remember) from the Florida Orchestra. It was very interesting. I can't
remember the name or composer either, but it was primarily in bass clef,
contemporary and highy dissonant. We are all high school students in the
masterclass (there were twenty four of us, eight in three different honor
bands at USF for a period of four days, then a concert on the last day;
this was Festival of Winds). They played the quartet twice with us in our
desks, and after the first time they had asked what we thought of the
piece (expecting rejection of the literature) and were suprised that we
found it interesting and pleasing to a degree. Then they played it a
third time and have us get up and stand over their shoulders and watch
their music as they played. Professor Wilson certainly is an interesting
individual from the brief discussion I had with him, but he was completey
into the idea that music is a language, and when you play your horn, it
is your voice, and you can do anything you feel to get your message
across.
Three cheers for our Florida Orchestra,
Brittany Davies, Fort Myers, Florida
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