I must have fallen asleep with the radio on. I was maybe 15, a budding hornist, growing up in Southern California. (Do any of you remember KFAC classical, both AM and FM?. So sad how the station left the air) I woke in the wee hours to a piece of romantic orchestral music festooned with horn trills. They kept coming, one after the other, played by multiple horns it seems. I was enthralled. But it was late. I must have fallen back asleep. I never found out what the piece was. This memory remains pungent though. At times I wonder if it was just teenage hormones playing tricks on me. I had a notion early on that it must have been Mahler. Not any of the popular symphonies 1, 4, or 5, to be sure. One of the really long ones that I always seem to fall asleep in the middle of. But listen though I might, I have never again heard the trilling call of the horn as I did that night. I would be ever so grateful if the cornological magisterium represented by this list would help me unravel this mystery which has haunted me for about 35 years. Any suggestions? K. Spielmann
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