Hi Hans, Thank you for your greetings - albeit from 11,000 metres!
I don't know anything about the inner dynamics and politics in your section. All I know is that when we do Bolero here we do it in the manner I have described. After all, it is most often performed in popular concerts, which can be busy for the horns, so, while it is quite possible for me to play the piece as written, it just makes it a little easier to swap octaves with the 2nd horn. There is never any problem with this, and when you imply that "asking nicely' is somehow related to "ass-licking" (sic), then I think you have a problem in communication with your low players. Maybe they sense a lack of respect from you. Maybe they don't respect you. Any good commander of troops will tell you that you have to earn the respect of the men under you. It is a bit the same with orchestral sections. Perhaps you have a problem here - I don't know, but I am sorry that you don't feel that you can expect the sort of co-operation from your team that I have from mine here in Melbourne. Cheers, Graeme Evans (Principal Horn, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) +61 3 9318 0690(H), +61 419 880371(B), +61 3 93180893(Fax) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'The Horn List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Bolero Encounter > Ho, ho, ho -- should your exclamation marks (!!!!) suggest, that I would > not ask them not nicely enough ?? > > First, as a principal I have not to ass-lick anybody in the section. > > Second, as a principal I have not to ask anybody for help. > > Third, as a principal I do rather help THEM out if they have an entrance > with a big upward leap, helping with the lower note, or helping them for > an over long held note. > > Fourth, as a principal I do not expect any help from the section. > > Fifth, we have a superb understanding in our section & are friends each > other, except delegating the parts. > > Sixth, as a principal I have to know my part & my potentials that good, > that I know, where I get a break anyway, as the third plays the same > phrase the same time, and as soon as I pause for say two bars, the third > plays louder as he or she (sorry, we have no "she" in our section so > far) understands that AND listen to the principals playing. > > My alternating principal uses an assistant for the aria from Giulio > Caesar, while I play it just "solo". This does not minimize his > reputation in no ways, as it is up to everybody to arrange the things in > his or her way. The result counts. > > Greetings to Australia, where I just flew over ten days ago on my way > back from NewZealand. > > Hans > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Graeme Evans > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:23 AM > To: The Horn List > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Bolero Encounter > > I'm sure they won't if you ask them nicely (!!!!) > > Cheers, > > Graeme Evans > (Principal Horn, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) > +61 3 9318 0690(H), +61 419 880371(B), +61 3 93180893(Fax) > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
