Hello friends, fans or enemies or whatever on the hornlist, I would like to share a special experience with you:
I received a desperate call this morning to help out with music for a recital tonight in a very big theatre in a very big city in Germany, as the horn player could not find his solo part of Glazunovs Idyll for horn & stringquintet. I told his calling girlfriend, why he would not just write out the simple horn part for this 4 minute piece from the score ? - The score were missing also & I were the only person (publisher) who could help by sending the part via fax. I do not have a fax machine, so I promised to scan the two pages & send´m via email attachement if the young lady would send me her correct email ID. The email ID arrived & I had the 2 pages scanned & trimmed meanwhile. So I sent them as attachement. To my surprice, a second email arrived telling me, my action would not be needed anymore as the horn part & score resurfaced magically. Would you think, this negligence would enhence my willingness to repeat such an action in the future ??? Would you be willing to do such ? Obviously not. Why do I write such ? Well, just to show an example, how a single stupidity & carelessness can ruin the goodwill. Result: such future services at last minute would require a Paypal advance payment of 50.-$. Should work. - But there are real emergency situations, when I would help out, off course, - and gratis. _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
