I covered the last low f (concert Bb), when I played the serenade on my Viennese & it did not lose anything of the quality as the Hymn must be played with outmost delicacy anyway, light, soft, like a hush-hush-rush. And fingering is much easier on the F-horn anyway. ============================================================ ==================================================
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Glick Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:53 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Re: It's not over yet! I can't positively answer that question, but in the winter of 1946, I studied with Dennis Brain at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as part of the Army's postwar education program. You're right, Howard, his horn was exactly as you described it. I doubt that, at that time, he played anything on a B-flat horn (or with a B-flat crook), however, because one of the first things he asked me to do at my first lesson, was to play only on the F side. (At that time, my horn was an army-issue Conn, probably a 6D). It wasn't until I returned to Boston in June 1946, and resumed studies with my first horn teacher, Max Shapiro (father of the Boston Symphony's Harry Shapiro), that I went back to using the full double horn. Ed Glick >>> Howard Sanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/24/2006 11:44 PM >>> wieder hat Hans Pizka geschrieben: > > For which horn did Britten write the Serenade, what horn had he in > mind ? (excluding Prologue & Epilogue) This is more interesting than it first seems. It is well known that the work was written for Dennis Brain, and that before ca. 1950 Brain played a Raoux, which was essentially a cor solo with a valve section added. Originally Brain's Raoux was crooked in F, but later he had it modified to B-flat alto. Here's the interesting part: The last note of Hymn is a written F an octave and a fifth below middle C. In the first recording, by Brain, Pears, and Britten, this note is wonderfully sonorous and well in tune, too much so to be 123 lipped down and covered. So did Brain play this song on a B-flat horn? What about the others? And what about the prologue and epilogue? B-flat alto 13? I've always wondered that. Probably no one is left who knows the answer for sure. Howard Sanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/glick%40unt.e du _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
