Last month I had the pleasure of performing Cosi fan tutte on natural horn. None of the other orchestra players played an authentic instrument - but it was not so polished a production that my hand horn stood out.
Pleasure faded when disaster struck. During the fifth performance, just before the first act finale, I discovered that I couldn't remove the A crook. Oof! I fled the pit, and struggled some more with the horn, failing to remove the crook, but wrecking it in the process. I rushed home and retrieved my valvehorn, returning in time for the downbeat to the second act. A week later, a local repairperson was able to remove the crook. The corpus of the horn was okay, but the crook was, in the immortal words of the late Richard Nixon, not A crook. So I shipped it off to distant parts where former crooks reform their ways. Yesterday it reappeared on my doorstep, ready once again to do serious mischief to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and polished to a dazzling brilliance that puts my other crooks to shame. So, hand horn people, check out Eccles. 7:13 and consider yourself warned. gotta go, cabbage _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
