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RE: [Hornlist] Popping and Scraping
Message text written by The Horn List >Usually this is not the solo horn from the pit, but the alternating solo horn who had played first act. < Dear All Which again reminds us of the story which Alan Civil used to tell. A certain well known London horn player (I think Edmund Chapman but I am not sure) was playing 1st horn in Siegfried in the 30s. He was asked to go offstage to do the call as well but, when he asked for an extra fee (10 guineas), this was refused. The management assumed that his professionalism and concern for a good performance would lead him to do as he was told. However, several times, the orchestral manager crept into the pit and was met with a muttered - "10 guineas, 10 guineas". Finally, in desperation, the manager passed his wallet to the 1st horn who promptly got up, left the pit, went backstage and played the call! Civil himself had a very amusing routine which I heard him give at least twice, based on his experiences playing this famous call at the Royal Opera House and English National Opera. He would play the passage which leads to a top C with a huge crescendo and accelerando but, instead of the C, he would whip the horn away from his embouchure and exclaim "and here you have got a problem!" The 'problem' was not the difficulty of playing top C but the fact that, having done so, you would want to play a nice long note and not the crotchet which Wagner writes. Elsewhere, on the repeated Es - each successively quieter, he would deliberately fall off the quietist one and then repeat the passage - playing the E all the same dynamic and stepping backwards for each one! Here, I am thawing out after a 'muddy field' date last night at Ripley Castle. Cold, wet and windy for the rehearsal, merely cold and windy for the show which was enlivened by an ambulance having to come and take a member of the audience away. In his remarks to the audience, the conductor (Frank Renton) remarked that one item - Johann Strauss' 'Thunder and Lightning' Polka appeared during the rehearsal to have attracted special effects from the elements to go with the Spitfire and Lancaster aircraft which did several fly pasts during Ron Goodwin's '633 Squadron', Walton's 'Spitfire Prelude and Fugue' and Coates' 'Dambusters' March. I am intrigued to know why over 4,000 people would turn up to freeze and get wet to hear an orchestra play, rather than sit at home with their CDs (and there were several such dates going on in Yorkshire and Lancashire last night). The answer must be the frisson of live music and this must be a good thing. Cheers Paul A. Kampen - 4th horn, Orchestra of Opera North (Leeds UK) ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
RE: [Hornlist] Wagner's anti-Semitism
Message text written by The Horn List >Protestants beat catholics in Ireland,< Dear Prof and List This was a particularly fascinating and informative posting - the reason why I enjoy some of the Non horn related messages most of all. However, this comment must be treated with caution. In the early 70s I shared a flat with two colleagues from Belfast; they were very close friends. One was a Catholic and one a Protestant and they said that they would never dare to visit each other at home as both families had very hard line views. They both said that 'The Troubles' (which were then at their height) had little to do with religion and much more to do with politics. The history of Ireland is very complex and has become clouded by a lot of myths and legends (Cromwell at Drogheda - he hated the Irish and massacred the population - true or false?). This has been compounded by what seems to modern people as the stupidity and arrogance of absentee landlords and British Governments. But on the other hand, the agricultural methods and the dividing of land holdings between successive generations of sons could not support the growing population of Ireland in the 19th century any more than it could in the Highlands of Scotland. But that does not excuse the brutal 'Highland Clearances'. Take the Easter Rising in Dublin - its leaders were a joke to most Dubliners; that is until the British government executed them and turned them into martyrs. But there again, if it was not for WW1, Ireland would have been given its rightful independence in full (no partition). But actually, if that had happened, would the majority of the north's population have accepted that? What about General Sir Hubert Gough (a dashing cavalry officer who 'masterminded' the Passchendaele campaign, got sacked for the disaster that followed and lived into the 1950s wracked with guilt and writing self-justifying books) who had led the 'Curragh' revolt of like minded Northern Irish army officers just before WW1. I think that we have got into very dangerous waters here! Regards Paul Kampen ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
RE: [Hornlist] unusual concert venues
We video taped Haendels Fireworks Music & Watermusic back in 1969 during our summer opera festival in July. The recording begun near to Midnight as we had a Don Giovanni performance that night. The recording took place in the former prince electors famous garden at Schleissheim castle, right at the fountains (Water Music). There was a magnificent Fire Works in the back ground. And we had to act like playing, meant playing actually. No problem. We had recorded the sound already, so we played along the tape. As the time progressed during this summer night, we got some refreshments, also alcoholica. You can imagine the ensemble after 03:00 A.M., and it became late night early morning cool, but we had to play again & again for some other shots. Everything became wet & the sound was like "cats music". The terrible thing was, we had to keep concentrated & earnest faces for the close ups. Quite strange. So as the morning arrived & we had to drive back home, we had to call taxis, as we were unable to drive because (see above). ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
RE: [Hornlist] unusual concert venues
- Original Message - From: "jeffrey rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: I played a concert for the spring equinox here in Mexico this last spring. Re: It was in a tiny canyon about an hour south of Mexico City near the mystical Re: city of Tepoztlan. Supposedly in this place, aliens have been cited many Re: times over the century. Every year groups of extraterrestrial believers and Re: mystics gather here to celebrate the equinox hoping to be joined by, yes, Re: aliens. Hi Jeffrey, Sorry I didn't reply sooner - I was away (to the great outdoors)on a camping trip! I was wondering what music you played for your alien canyon concert? Was it alien themed? Did you see any (apart from the one out the front with the big white stick)? We once had to wear masks of characters from the Star Wars films for a 'Spaced Out' concert. The wind and brass players mostly had to cut the lower half of their masks away just to be able to play. The conductor thought he'd be clever and come on in the pitch blackness as Darth Vader and scare the audience by suddenly turning his light sabre on (which was then to double as a baton). Unfortunately he tripped over the fold-back speaker, totally crushed the sabre, had to call out for light and totally ruined his grand entrance. We were laughing so hard we couldn't play :) Chris W -- ___ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for just US$9.95 per year! Powered by Outblaze ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
