If you have a low register shift when you play that passage, it may be the facial expression she was referring to. When I demonstrated a register shift to my wife, she said that was a Where the Wild Things Are face.
Herb Foster ________________________________ From: PatentDan Feigelson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 8:43:47 AM Subject: [Hornlist] A six-year-old's view of Ludwig So last night I was comparing how different mouthpieces responded in the low register, among other things playing the low descending chromatic passage in the 2nd horn part near the end of the Beethoven sextet, when my 6-year-old daughter comes into the room, gives me a big smile, and then makes her best Where-The-Wild-Things-Are-Gnash-Their-Terrible-Teeth face. So I respond in kind. Then I go back to playing, and she makes the face again. Then she says, "Can you do that again?" So I make a mean face again and she says, "No, can you do like...like you did when you did it before?" I couldn't recall having made a face like that in any story I'd told her recently, so I said, "Like when?" "Like when you...when you...". And then she starts singing the passage from the Beethoven. "Oh, you mean this?" I said, and started playing the Beethoven again, and she started making her face again. I don't know if that's a comment on the sound I was producing (I hope it wasn't that nasty!) or just how that particular lick sounded to her when taken out of context, but I was pretty proud of her for associating something I don't think she'd ever heard before with a particular feeling or expression. Dan Feigelson _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/herb_foster%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
