Message text written by The Horn List >"Okay orchestra, let's take "September," once more from the beginning, and down a half-step if you please! Okay, ready...???"<
Dear All A couple of years ago, I played in a concert at the Telewest Arena in Newcastle-on-Tyne with a tenor singer - whatsisname? - big bloke who always has a white towel with him. At any rate, he did the duet from the end of Act 1 of La Boheme with a superb young soprano; we were using a special set of parts and, half way through there was a funny key change (which was highly unconvincing) and the rest of it was all down a semitone. Mind you, I have known the soprano's last note in this sung offstage by a member of the chorus (earning a fraction of what the Mimi is getting) and we once had to do the whole of Rodolpho's aria down a semitone for the whole run with a tenor from the USA. Unfortunately, one night in Hull we had a deputy 3rd horn who forgot my verbal reminder about this and did not notice the usual 3rd horn's pencil marks. Nor did he understand the muttered comments from the 2nd horn and myself until, in desperation, the 2nd horn got hold of the 3rd horn's instrument and pulled it away from his embouchure. Cheers Paul A. Kampen (W. Yorks UK) _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
