IIRC Respighi specifies the exact record he wants in the score (Concert Gramophone Company #1060 or something like that). Real birds would be fun but definitely a gloss (like the time I went to The Bartered Bride in Bloomington and my companion thrilled to the real chickens on stage).
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <finale@shsu.edu> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the fake? > At 11:43 PM -0400 5/6/07, Aaron Rabushka wrote: > >Hmm--I wonder if Respighi's nightengale (sp?) record caused the same furor. > >(Not to mention that it may take a period-instrument mindset to bring it off > >with a 78-rpm turntable rather than a laptop computer nowadays!) > > Don't be silly, Aaron. A true period-instrument person would insist > on using a real nightingale, or possible a small flock of them, since > it has proved rather difficult to train birds to respond to a > conductor's cues. Somewhat like opera singers. > > John > > > -- > John & Susie Howell > Virginia Tech Department of Music > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
