I agree wholeheartly! We play the most beautiful sounding instrument known to man and some of these hacks can only write us f#?/+*g afterbeat parts. I did a Summer concert last year, struggled to get to a basement rehearsal room with an arthritic hip (which I had replaced) to ultimately play twelve pieces of which 10 were nothing but afterbeat crap parts. What a waste of my time! The pain wasn't worth it. When I was asked to sign up again for this summer, I said I want to know what we're going to play before I commit to playing that junk.
End of rant. Walt Lewis Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Bill Gross" <william.s.gr...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:12:14 To: 'The Horn List'<horn@music.memphis.edu> Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Copycat Musical Themes "Good on ya, mate!" Anything that gives Anderson a payback for all the crappy horn parts he created over the years is well deserved. -----Original Message----- From: horn-bounces+bgross=airmail....@music.memphis.edu [mailto:horn-bounces+bgross=airmail....@music.memphis.edu] On Behalf Of Eldon Matlick Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:48 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Copycat Musical Themes Sorry to reply so late to an old post, but I thought you all might like this. Certainly there are many selections when the phrasing and chord changes can cause some interesting interpolations. We were doing a tribute concert to Leroy Anderson a few years back. Oh, a tremendously exciting concert for us to be sure.... (Our Music Director likes to pull these insipid things out from time to time. We were doing 'The First Day of Spring,' an especially sappy arrangement, when I noticed that I could hum the theme to The Flintstone's along with it. Of course, to break the boredom I played it softly on the next run through. My brass colleagues lost it and it took several bars for the winds to catch on. The conductor, of course, was not terribly amused, but we all got a good chuckle, but of course, I didn't do it again. Being a bad boy in OKC, Dr. Eldon Matlick, Horn Professor, University of Oklahoma Principal Hornist, OK City Philharmonic 500 W Boyd Norman, OK 73019 (405) 325-4093 off. (405) 325-7574 fax Conn-Selmer Educational Artist http://ouhorns.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/bgross%40airmail.net _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/lewhorn9%40yahoo.com
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