Good for you Hans. And may you "climb" many many more mountains. The Happiest Holidays.
Milton Milton Kicklighter 4th Horn Buffalo Philharmonic Retired ________________________________ From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> To: The Horn List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, December 20, 2010 1:50:46 PM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Cuivre Hello dear friend ! Great story. This composer is a real "A.....H" in our language. Merry Christmas to You & a good transition to the New Year 2011 !!! Passed all my biennial checks & added heart katheter on recomm. of my medic. All turned out fine, nothing out of norm. Fortunately. High mountains still waiting for me. Just started training accompanied by my wife, you remember, leaving the car in the garage (still Alfa 156 turbo diesel 2.400 cc) and walk shopping, walk postoffice 6 kms every day no matter if the clouds bring snow, rain or shit (hoho). Cannot wait for more snow, so to walk around the village using snow-shoes. Also cannot wait for spring to bike around. Keep things stiff, my friend. As always yours Hans ######################################################################### Am 20.12.2010 um 19:35 schrieb [email protected]: > Good story, Hans! I did similar in Minneapolis some years back. We were > recording a piece of S**T by our rather arrogant composer in residence at > the time who will remain anonymous. He was coming out to the podium to give > instructions both to our conductor and us before each take. At one point > he looks at the horns and says: > > "Horns, bar 355, cuivre!" > > 4th horn: "you want it stopped?" > > "No! I want Cuivre!" > > 3rd horn: "You want it louder?" > > "No! Cuivre! CUIVRE!" > > 2nd horn: "What exactly do you want?" > > "I've told you over and over, I WANT IT CUIVRE!!!" > > 1st horn (moi) standing up and pointing at my third valve cap "OK. Got > it! We'll just push our cuivre buttons. No problem!" > > We just played it so loud it would peel paint. After the next break, he > came back for more instructions for others and then looked at us and said: > > "And oh, horns, that was simply marvelous! Leave those cuivre buttons on > all day!" > > KB > > > In a message dated 12/20/2010 1:00:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:56:09 +0100 > From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] The Girl from Arles > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Sorry, Martin, > > bells up might be right for certain compositions but not for L?Arlesienne. > One has to take the compositions title into consideration also. > > I produced a scandal about "cuivre" and its interpretation, years ago, > with > famous conductor Igor Markevich, in front of the orchestra. He insisted > always: "blay > kuivree, KUIVREE !!" - I said (playing light weight brassy as usual in > French music): > "Sorry, Maestro, I am doing it always as written in my part." - "Thaz not > Kuivree ! Kuivree > mast be pouchee !" - "Sorry, Maestro, the one has nothing to do with the > other !" - > "You blay kuivree as pouchee now !" - "Sorry, Maestro, how should I play > this passage: > cuivre or bouche ?" - No more from the maestro. I played the passage > French style light > weight brassy with a bit stressy embouchure. It worked fine & sounded fine. > > But Markevich denounced me at the administration, who sent me a warning > letter. > But they had to draw back the warning letter, as they had forgotten to > hear my version > of the case first. > > Markevich was a quite well known conductor, but famous for his despotic > attitudes. But a > guest conductor must not behave like he did. > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at >https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/kicklighgter%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
