I agree with you Hans. E has always been one of my favorite keys for the horn. The only passage that used to give me a little extra practice panic was the aria in Cosi. I am sure there are others, but I haven't come across them in my limited experience. In the day when I was playing stuff like this, I was playing a 103 and I had to play it on the B flat side. When playing the second horn solo, I could stay on the F side (though I threw the B flat down for the written F# at the top). Had I the smarts (or the $$) to get an extended (or shortened) slide like many of our illustrious well-known colleagues (or a stopping valve), I would have made life a bit easier ... but what's the fun in that??
As far as Armida is concerned, Scott is a long time friend (you are friends as well?) and he is a fine player. When he tells me the parts are tricky, I tend to believe him. Thanks for the recording suggestion. best c >>> Hans Pizka <[email protected]> 2/15/2011 11:56 AM >>> Hello Chris, what is so difficult on the horn soli within Rossinís music ? is it the key ß Most of these soli are in E. Ooops, that́s the main difficulty for the notorious Bb-side players. But areńt these solos much easier on the F-side ? And they do not go high either, but have very tricky passages for the Bb-horn user. These soli are not longer than a few measures, like in "A Turk in Italy" or "Il Barbiere". Every reasonable horn player must be able to play them in public after reading or/and playing them through just a few times. All these soli are quite common stuff. This like passages are all included in the two Kopprasch books, - and as they were written in a natural horn style, the technical difficulties are limited, - except the tonality E, which still horrifies the Bb-users & Bb-thinkers. Armida should not be any exception. As Rossinís father was a horn player, Rossini knew very well, how to write for the horn in a way, that his compositions could be performed properly, even then back. ################################################################################### Am 15.02.2011 um 14:55 schrieb Chris Wilhjelm: > > As a dabbler in the conducting world I feel a real need to get out in front of what's going to happen here (it's a conductor thing) > > Yes, I do know the difference between a bull and an orchestra, > > I feel sorry for the snake and I'm okay with no skid marks > > and I know that a conductor buried up to his neck in sand means that you ran out of sand. > > of course this knowledge dates from the time before I turned from the Force and went to the dark side. > > I was speaking to my friend Scott Brubaker on Sunday and he told me that the Met Opera will be doing a set of performances of Rossini's Armida starting next week (with Renee Fleming) > I have NEVER heard this - he went on to say that there are big solos for 1st and 3rd horn in the overture. Does anyone have an mp3 or know of a good performance available? > > As an aside, The Ridgewood Concert Band is performing the Overture to Siege of Corinth (another little played Rossini Opera with a beautiful horn solo in the overture) Tuesday 2/22 (principal horn, Carolyn Kirby is terrific). This will be a joint concert with the Texas Christian U. Wind Symphony - info on the RCB website. > > best to all > Chris > > > >>>> Walter Lewis <[email protected]> 2/15/2011 8:20 AM >>> > Paul, > > As we all know, some conductors just need shooting! > > Steve Mumford and I know of one here in Metro Detroit that is so bad, that he can't conduct electricity let alone a symphony orchestra. This guy falls into the category I just mentioned. Shooting his would be the only merciful thing to do for the sake of music. > > Walt Lewis, > > --- On Mon, 2/14/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Musicianship > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 10:35 PM > > Hey Jerry, > > What if it is a conducting class and someone is shooting at the > conductor ?? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Houston <[email protected]> > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 7:33 pm > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Musicianship > > On 02/14/2011 04:06 PM, David Goldberg wrote: >> He might be on the illegal side too. I just looked for information >> about this - it appears to be illegal in the USA. Recommend that > anyone >> interested in this, research first. > > You beat me to it. I was going to note the need for caution (or, at > least, discretion). Disabling cell phones prevents folks from using > them for emergency purposes. If a student in the class, for example, > started shooting at folks (well, it's happened...), no one could call > 911 and report it. > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/corno911%40aol.com > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/lewhorn9%40yahoo.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/cwilhjelm%40pascack.k12.nj.us > > _______________________________________________ > 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/cwilhjelm%40pascack.k12.nj.us _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
