Regarding the "Siegfried", you are at the wrong way. A 5´5" man. No matter how he will sing the role, WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. ALL factors must play TOGETHER. If the singer of Tosca is an old ugly & fat lady, it doesn´t matter how she sing & how she can endure the big & bowling laughter after she sang "I dedicated my life to beauty only ....", or in "Magic Flute": Imagine Tamino singing "This picture is so beautiful ..." (holding Taminas portrait in his hands, when the audience already had seen the elephant-like soprano ..... The piece would be ruined at once.
Really, it is not a matter of "COURAGE ENDURING THE LAUGHTER", really. Fortunately, things for the horn player are not that severe. General physic conditions & beauty are not inflecting the playing in general. But irregularities in the mouth area do it, no matter what kind of arguments might come up again. And if you read my letter again & again, if you try to understand that, you would easily find out, that I do not oppose to any player with irregularities there, except pointing to the fact, that their possibilities are limited. My warnings go in that direction, that the teachers should act more responsible & point their students to their "defects" or "irregularities" as future obstacles, if they tend to make a living of playing the horn. And these warnings are not valid for the horn only, but for all instruments, for many occupations. And , please, there are many other countries in the world than the USA. You are not the only nation, but all others are "third world". ========================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 2:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Hornlist] something to think HR Hans, Your ideals are maybe a little too third world for us americans, but they are very true. Remember that the majority of this list is American and the majority of us were raised with the ideal that we could DO anything we set our minds to. I have a certain medical condition that hinders the way I do some things but If I caved in to the critisism and hate of the world I would fail as a person in all respects. If I didn't push myself to get out of bed in the morning I have failed as a person. If I didn't meet the world with a new face and give my all everytime I did anything I will have failed as a person. Maybe we didn't recieve the same perfection as you did when god made us, should this hinder us from aspiring to be what or who we want to be? As for the 5'5" sigfried, if he has the balls to sing it and the courage to get laughed at by an entire community he IS the best person for the job regardless of height. Maybe a perfect person can never know the tribulation Sigfried has gone through without some hardship? Maybe the 6'3" blond haired blue eyed men should rule the world? Would this make it any better place than it is now? Hoss _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans.pizka%40t-online.de _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
