I know it, I know it for long, he has gone crazy now !!!! Did you or did your lovely wife deliver the baby ? Keep your Intel-i-gen-CIA together, edit Cop-rush, but dont join Goethe or Schiller, Miller or Muller, Plea - ass.
Merry Christmas, my friend. Hope our silliness can stay with us for a while still, even world seems to go the serious path of intolerance now. Cordially Hans .................................................... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > A VISIT FROM ST. DENNIS > By Prof. I. M. Gestopftmitscheist > > Twas the night before Kopprasch, when all through the house > Not a hornist was playing, not even some Strauss; > The 8D's were packed in their cases with care, > In hopes that St. Dennis soon would be there. > > The students were nestled all snug in their beds, > While visions of symphony jobs danced in their heads; > As Mamma and I filled out financial aid forms, > We wished that those kids had never been born! > > With auditions looming for college and schools, > These two "musicians" were acting like fools. > Playing only solos, excerpts, and such, > Their playing was not to be considered, much. > > Add to these facts that these kids had big heads, > Mamma and I were in the throes of great dread. > Since money was tight and the wallet quite thin, > Unless they got scholarships, the future was grim. > > When out on the lawn there arose such a sound, > I sprang from the desk like a deer on a bound! > Away to the window, I flew like a flash, > Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash! > > The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow > Gave the lustre of midday to objects below, > When what to my wondering eyes should appear, > But a gigantic sleigh and eight great-big reindeer! > > A distinguished man had his hand on the rein, > I new in a moment that it surely was St. Brain. > More rapid than Al Cass his coursers they came, > And he free buzzed, and shouted, and called them by name: > > Now, Alex! now Kruspe! now Conn and Holton! > On, Yamaha! on Geyer! on, Schmid and Lawson! > To the top of the range! to the pedal notes fall! > Now play away! play away! play away all! > > As great horn players can do "on the fly," > When they meet with an excerpt, mount to the sky, > So up to the roof-top the coursers they flew, > With a sleigh full of music, and St. Dennis too. > > And then, in an eighth note, I heard on the roof > The puffing and blowing of each little toot. > As I drew in my head, and was fumbling around, > Down the chimney came St. Dennis, ready to sound. > > He was dressed in his tails, and patent leather shoes, > And he then said to me, "In a minute, great news!" > A bundle of music he had flung on his back, > And in his right hand, a Marcus Bona pack. > > I stared at his face, and his eyes were afire, > and I knew in his life, there was only one desire, > to take out a horn and play it so well, > that the rest of us mortals could just "go to hell!" > > He opened the gig bag and picked up his horn, > like I knew he had done since the day he was born. > He then played the Siegfried with nary a clam, > and all I could think of was "hot damn!" > > And this great performance had awakened the kids, > Who came in a'running, and put on the skids. > They were all shaken, scared, and bewildered of that > Since the only horn playing they had done had sounded like crap. > > He then played "Till Eulenspiegel" with nary a crack, > And all with perfect rhythm, dynamics and attack. > His beautiful tone was simply amazing, > Not to mention his incredible phrasing. > > The kids starting yelling, "HOW CAN WE DO THAT?" > "WE'LL NEVER SUCCEED IF WE STILL SOUND LIKE CRAP!" > And then St. Dennis said, "Please, don't despair. > There is remedy for all problems, so there." > > "My instructions, now, you should perfectly heed, > If you really ever, ever want to succeed." > St. Dennis then reached down into his sack, > And pulled out some music and handed it back. > > "There are five fundamentals to playing horn well, > Without support for you air, your playing will smell. > A strong embouchure gives you right notes and range, > Good articulation keeps things from sounding strange." > > "One must know their intervals and play pitches in tune, > Or else you will clam and play like a bufoon! > You need perfect rhythm, without any glitches, > Otherwise, you'll have the audience in stitches." > > "Put it all together and what have you got? > Why, great playing, for sure, and crap it is not! > If you work on the basics one hour per day, > Then people will listen, they might even pay!" > > "So practice these studies, numbers one through sixty. > Until you have assuredness and consistency. > This time you invest is always well spent, > Especially when you must perform at any event." > > "Your excerpts and solos will go like the wind, > Since you know all the techniques to employ within. > A tricky passage is now in your grasp, > Since you have practiced and practiced: KOPPRASCH!!!" > > With a wink of his eye and a nod of his head, > "I've got others to tell, tonight," he said. > And then with his horn and his music in hand, > Up the chimney he went, fast as fast can. > > He sprang to his sleigh and buzzed to his team, > Away they all flew, as if in a dream. > But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, > "Happy KOPPRASCH to all and to all a good night!" > > Copywrong, 1999, revised version, 2000 Prof. I. M. Gestopftmitscheist > > The Merryestest and Happyestest Seasonings Greetonings to Everyone! > > Prof. I. M. Gestopftmitscheist > Principal 8th horn and Principal 4th Wagner Tuber, Schplittenotendorf am > Oedland Staatsoper und Philharmoniker, (ret.) > Solo Horn, Exit 2 Brass Quintet > Hornist, Broken Winds WW Quintet > Solo 4th Horn (Leader, call me for bookings), Smirnoff Horn Quartet > Hornist as Needed, L'Ensemble du Chambre des Palourdes > Principal Natural Horn, I Soloisti di Feces > Principal Baroque and Hunting Horn, Camarata Vongoleforte > Adjunct, Part-time, Arms-length Professor of Horn and Pest Control, Exit 2 > Community College, Exit 2, NJ > Author, "The Kopprasch Connection," "Kopprasch for Fun and Profit," > "Kopprasch for the New Millenium: Where Do you Fit In?" and "Hooked on > Hornonics" > Founder, Director and CEO, Universal Institute for the Study, Preservation > and Dissemination of Kopprasch Throughout the Solar System > Founder and Guru Extraordinaire, Hornaholics Anonymous > Grand Poobah of the Koppraschian Kult > Director and Program Manager, The All Kopprasch Channel (AKC), Kopprasch > Public Radio (KPR) > Founder of Kopprasch Depot, your one stop shop for all you need! > Interplanetarily Known Soloist and Artist of Record > Phone: yes > Fax: yes > E-mail: yes > Website: no > > "Have yourself a merry little Kopprasch!" > _______________________________________________ > Horn mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn > -- Prof.Hans Pizka email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel.: +49 89 903 9548 - www.pizka.de (horn site) with connections to www.pizka.de/Pizka-music.html (publications) - www.pizka.de/PizClasHr.htm (instruments, mouthpieces) www.pizka.de/PizWrHorn.htm (Viennese Horns) - www.pizka.de/mpiece.htm (mouthpieces) www.pizka.de/Pizka-travel.htm (pictures, stories, experiences from my travel) - open soon mail is virus checked _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn
