Re: [Hornlist] questions for paper

2005-07-08 Thread G


--- Gordon, Heather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm writing a paper...Here're the questions:
 
 1. What material (concertos, sonatas, etc.) helped
 you most in preparing for auditioning for a major
 symphony?

The vast majority of auditions require one of the
Mozart concerti. Mozart defines a hornplayer.
Sometimes Strauss. You should be learning the bread
and butter literature, and some of the jelly too, as
part of your musical training; all of the literature
is important. Even Varese. The best preparation for an
audition is auditions. Take them every chance you can
get. Auditioning is an art-form unto itself, and I'd
be willing to bet that like learning to play chess,
you have to lose a bunch before you start winning.
There are simply too many variations of play that must
be taken into account. Very few players win their
first audition, and the vast majority never win. Such
is the nature of the beast.
 
 2. What etudes best prepared you for auditioning?

Kopprasch, Maxime-Alphonse, Gallay, Reynolds, Bach
Cello Suites, Arban, Kling, Neuling... However, etudes
don't really help you to prepare for an audition.
Etudes are for training in technique that will get you
to the level of being able to audition in the first
place. They are a means to an end, that being a
well-developed player. Besides...isn't an orchestral
excerpt just another kind of etude?
 
 3. How do you mentally prepare for an audition?

In the same manner that I would prepare for any
performance. If you think you will win, you might. If
you think you will lose, you will. I'd be willing to
bet that the vast majority of capable players psyche
themselves out. Don't pay any attention to the other
players in the warm-up room. They aren't better than
you, they just sound different, and their sound may
not be what the orchestra is looking for. Better is
too subjective a term in a room full of relatively
equally accomplished players. And remember - the
toughest competition in the audition will come from
yourself, not the other players.
 
 4. Do you have some sort of ritual (music or
 non-music related) you do to prepare for an
 audition?

No. Why add a ritual to a routine that you wouldn't do
for any other performance situation? You're asking for
trouble. The morning of the day of the audition is too
late to practice. I once had a conductor ask me at a
pre-concert rehearsal if I wanted to run through the
solo in Tchaik 5. I said no, if I don't know it now
it's too late. Besides...the one I play here in about
an hour is going to be the keeper.
 
 5. What advice would you give to college-level horn
 player about playing in general?

Practice. A lot. Learn your scales. Don't be a
specialist of high or low horn, master the entire
range. There are no specialists anymore; well, very,
very few anyway. Don't look for shortcuts; there
aren't any. Playing the horn is learning by rote. Play
every chance you get...band, orchestra, quintets,
chamber music, musicals, opera, bar mitzvahs, dinner
parties, whatever. You MUST get used to performing,
and there is no way other than doing it. Learn to play
natural horn...your aim will improve as well as your
finesse. If you don't have a natural horn, just play
your double without using the valves. Practice a lot
on the F side only for the same reasons. Go to
concerts and recitals. Go to masterclasses for other
instruments and singers; learn how other instruments
approach the fine art of phrasing and shading. Teach
young people...teaching wide-eyed children to make
noise on a horn will help you solidify your own
concepts of how you do what you do in the simplest of
terms; you're also passing on a time-honored tradition
of playing the horn. And you'll make a few bucks on
the side, which is really the whole point now, isn't
it? Never blame your horn until all other
possibilities are ruled out. Your equipment is not the
problem; it's you.
 
 And again, please give your name and symphony
 (unless you're just doing this for fun).  Thanks for
 the help.  

Gary Suits
No major league teams, but played Triple-A ball in
Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and South Carolina. Had to
win a few of those jobs.
 
 Heather Red Gordon
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (If you'd rather answer these questions by phone,
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Re: [Hornlist] questions for paper

2005-07-08 Thread Joe Scarpelli
Good stuff Gary.

Heather, you should take his advice. Many excellent managers on the Major
League level were excellent in Triple A but never really made it to the Big
Show.

Regards,
Joe 
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--- Gordon, Heather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm writing a paper...Here're the questions:
 
 1. What material (concertos, sonatas, etc.) helped
 you most in preparing for auditioning for a major
 symphony?

The vast majority of auditions require one of the
Mozart concerti. Mozart defines a hornplayer.
Sometimes Strauss. You should be learning the bread
and butter literature, and some of the jelly too, as
part of your musical training; all of the literature
is important. Even Varese. The best preparation for an
audition is auditions. Take them every chance you can
get. Auditioning is an art-form unto itself, and I'd
be willing to bet that like learning to play chess,
you have to lose a bunch before you start winning.
There are simply too many variations of play that must
be taken into account. Very few players win their
first audition, and the vast majority never win. Such
is the nature of the beast.
 
 2. What etudes best prepared you for auditioning?

Kopprasch, Maxime-Alphonse, Gallay, Reynolds, Bach
Cello Suites, Arban, Kling, Neuling... However, etudes
don't really help you to prepare for an audition.
Etudes are for training in technique that will get you
to the level of being able to audition in the first
place. They are a means to an end, that being a
well-developed player. Besides...isn't an orchestral
excerpt just another kind of etude?
 
 3. How do you mentally prepare for an audition?

In the same manner that I would prepare for any
performance. If you think you will win, you might. If
you think you will lose, you will. I'd be willing to
bet that the vast majority of capable players psyche
themselves out. Don't pay any attention to the other
players in the warm-up room. They aren't better than
you, they just sound different, and their sound may
not be what the orchestra is looking for. Better is
too subjective a term in a room full of relatively
equally accomplished players. And remember - the
toughest competition in the audition will come from
yourself, not the other players.
 
 4. Do you have some sort of ritual (music or
 non-music related) you do to prepare for an
 audition?

No. Why add a ritual to a routine that you wouldn't do
for any other performance situation? You're asking for
trouble. The morning of the day of the audition is too
late to practice. I once had a conductor ask me at a
pre-concert rehearsal if I wanted to run through the
solo in Tchaik 5. I said no, if I don't know it now
it's too late. Besides...the one I play here in about
an hour is going to be the keeper.
 
 5. What advice would you give to college-level horn
 player about playing in general?

Practice. A lot. Learn your scales. Don't be a
specialist of high or low horn, master the entire
range. There are no specialists anymore; well, very,
very few anyway. Don't look for shortcuts; there
aren't any. Playing the horn is learning by rote. Play
every chance you get...band, orchestra, quintets,
chamber music, musicals, opera, bar mitzvahs, dinner
parties, whatever. You MUST get used to performing,
and there is no way other than doing it. Learn to play
natural horn...your aim will improve as well as your
finesse. If you don't have a natural horn, just play
your double without using the valves. Practice a lot
on the F side only for the same reasons. Go to
concerts and recitals. Go to masterclasses for other
instruments and singers; learn how other instruments
approach the fine art of phrasing and shading. Teach
young people...teaching wide-eyed children to make
noise on a horn will help you solidify your own
concepts of how you do what you do in the simplest of
terms; you're also passing on a time-honored tradition
of playing the horn. And you'll make a few bucks on
the side, which is really the whole point now, isn't
it? Never blame your horn until all other
possibilities are ruled out. Your equipment is not the
problem; it's you.
 
 And again, please give your name and symphony
 (unless you're just doing this for fun).  Thanks for
 the help.  

Gary Suits
No major league teams, but played Triple-A ball in
Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and South Carolina. Had to
win a few of those jobs.
 
 Heather Red Gordon
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (If you'd rather answer these questions by phone,
 you can email me for my number)
 
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Re: [Hornlist] questions for paper

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
1.  any sonata, any solo piece, any concerto. Do not
restrict yourself to one or two concertos only (like Mozart
3 or 4 and Strauss 1). Learn studying very quick. Learn how
to study more effective by NOT practising things you can do
very well allready. Repeat these things by running through
to improve steadiness  endurance. Concentrate yourself to
the difficult spots. Learn to recognize these DIFFICULT
spots instantly.

2. all etudes serve very well to improve the playing
technique; all classical etudes are designed to improve not
only playing techique but also musical knowledge  skill to
prepare you to anticipate things (the music to come during
the next measures) within all the classical  romantic
repertory: Kopprasch, Gallay, Maxime-Alphonse, Nowak,
Belloli, de Grave, Bergonzi, Ranieri, Schantl, plus some
more preparation for the music of the 20th century: Neuling,
Stary, Reynolds, Barboteu, etc.

Learn to study these etudes with a minimum of effort  a
maximum of benefit. Learn to read the music in advance
(without the horn) to get the fingering  the breathing.
Learn to read the music in advance while you are playing
(always read one or two measures ahead). Do not get stuck if
you commit an error. Remember it while going ahead, but
return to it  clean it after you have ended the etude. If
the passage is very difficult (fingering), do it in the most
awkward transposition. It will work then.

3. Go to an audition only, if you are well prepared. Do not
prepare for Mt.Everest, if you have never climbed any hill.
Find quietness the days before the audition. Avoid exposure
to unorganized noise (disco, pops, etc.). Avoid alcohol
strictly. But otherwise live on your normal routine.

4. Yes, there is a ritual. No coffee, as nobody knows how a
coffee is prepared at the audition place or the hotel. It
might influence your stomach painfully, which is not the
best for the audition. Empty your body in time before the
audition (got it !!!). After warming up (not too much), walk
a few steps in the fresh air. Sit down on a quiet place 
concentrate yourself to JUST ZERO or JUST BLACK or what
else. This is a superb relax (it is not easy the first few
attempts)  you can switch on your concentration like the
light.

5. Listen is often better than playing yourself. Learn from
the mistakes committed by others  by yourself. Listen
again. Listen. Listen  And, feel the music. 

6. Do not forget improving your general knowledge about
everything  special about the arts, the relations of
colours, the relation of forms, the relation of abstracts
(musical forms). Read scores  try to hear them becomming
real sound just inside your brain. A wonderful  helpful
experience.

===

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I'm writing a paper about what college horn players--getting
ready to enter the performing world--can learn from horn
players currently in major symphonies.  If anyone wants to
help me out, I have a few questions here.  All I ask is that
you give your name and what symphony you play(ed) for.  If
you want to give your two-cents anyway, be my guest.  I'm
interested in any responses, I just can only use certain
responses in my paper.  This isn't anything that'll ever be
published either, so there's no need to be really formal or
worry about future political careers or anything crazy like
that.  Here're the questions:

1. What material (concertos, sonatas, etc.) helped you most
in preparing for auditioning for a major symphony?

2. What etudes best prepared you for auditioning?

3. How do you mentally prepare for an audition?

4. Do you have some sort of ritual (music or non-music
related) you do to prepare for an audition?

5. What advice would you give to college-level horn player
about playing in general?

And again, please give your name and symphony (unless you're
just doing this for fun).  Thanks for the help.  

Heather Red Gordon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(If you'd rather answer these questions by phone, you can
email me for my number)

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[Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread James Ray Crenshaw
 who are the 'bad men' depends on each individual's
 and nation's point of view


But not in this case. Everyone knows who the bad guys were. Even the bad
guys themselves know. The only thing worse than moral superiority is moral
relativism.

Everyone returns to dust; may their journey be a swift one.

If I may be allowed to interrupt with a horn-related question;

Q1: What is the stuff that Finke valve rotors are made of?

Q2: Anyone own a Finke with valves of this stuff?

Q3: If so, how have they behaved? (compare  contrast with standard valves)

jrc

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Re: [Hornlist] Marching French Horn

2005-07-08 Thread SANDRA CLARK
OK Bill - you've opened a door, and I hope you're not sorry!  Not only is the 
new Boston tubist a former member of a DCI corps, but so is the new principal 
trumpet of the Chicago Symphony.  There is also a former DCI member in the Met 
trumpet section.  Al Chez, trumpet player for David Lettermen, did his time in 
corps, as has at least one studio French horn player out in LA.  Jazz 
improvisation has not escaped the world of the horn - Chris Komer, a very well 
known NY based free lance player (as well as NJ symphony 3rd  horn and Burning 
River Brass member) marched with a very good group from California and is an 
amazing improvisation talent!  And the Boston Brass features a former DCI 
marcher on horn.

There are others of us out there in less glamorous positions - players who not 
only survived the experience of marching and playing at the same time (yes - it 
can be done!), but have gone on to make a few shekels at it, too.

If you're really interested in what some former drum corps members have done 
since their 'misspent' youth - purchase and listen to the disk I've linked 
below.  It showcases a very wide range of styles and performances - from French 
Horn octets (with some incredible performances, including a guy who plays 
higher than Tuckwell!), solo Cello, solo Marimba, a jazz tuba group, some rock 
and Latino based ensembles, and some all brass 'big band' style groups.  This 
last group features your son's friend, Adam Rappa, if I'm not mistaken.

http://www.bluedevils.org/merchandise/product_info.php?products_id=87

Sandra Clark
Toledo, OH
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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
Oh no, Bill, that sounds far too simple. It is not the
question to eradicate groups guided by hate. No, again no.
It is necessary that WE change our mind  our policy toward
them by abandoning our elitarian thinking, our just business
orientated thinking. WE (I say WE for US, E.U., J etc.)
plunder the resources of military weaker nations, thread
them with our sophisticated military power, spoil their
environment, faith, language, behaviour, life. We spoil them
with our junk food  junk products nobody is really
interested to have (but we buy), just to fill the bank
accounts of a few  No wonder, some of them, with a
similar narrow mind as ours, remorse with hate  hate driven
attacks, violence with violence, eye by eye, teeth by teeth,
like the Old Testament. But we forget living in the (so
called) high sophisticated  (mentally  physically)
liberated 21st century. No, we have fallen back to the
deepest Middle Ages. Watch our language, how has it fallen
to the primitivest level. How many millions in our
maleducated society can really read  understand what they
read ? If you will not be my brother, I break your head.
Is that the guide-sentence of this century ? It seems to be
so.##

Give up this attitudes of lamentation, if yours became
targets of injust attacks. Force your politicians to
preach forgiveness, tolerance, anti-violence (even it will
become of disadvantage for you  yours), anti-racism,
cosmopolitanism, wisdom, peace, anti-exploitism 
And hate will disappear, but love each other will bring a
better world.

If you can contribute to that, by expressing love with the
horn, you might contribute to the understanding of nations
by the use of the music, the international language, but not
by the big-bang-bang-wooom-woom.

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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:00 PM
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Hit and run eh?  Oh well Burke felt that actions of the
British Crown (George III) were alienating the colonist.

Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights
associated with your government-they will cling and grapple
to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear
them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood
that your government may be one thing and their privileges
another, that these two things may exist without any mutual
relation - the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and
everything hastens to decay and dissolution.

The fact is that there is a small group of people a foot in
the world guided by hate more than anything else.  If
history has taught us anything, non-violence only works in
changing the minds of people who have something other than
hate as their guiding philosophy.



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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Gross
The source of terrorism is not the impoverished nations of the world.  The
majority of the members of Al Qeada are from one of the riches nations in
the world, Saudi Arabia.  The current source of terror in Iraq is not from
the underclasses in that country, but from the members of the Baath party
who can't live the thought of having to give up the power they held over
their fellow Iraqis and have to face up to the damage they did to the Shia
and Kurds while they held power.

I appreciate your optimistic view of the world.  I just can not accept it.
Visiting Bergen Belsen and seeing mounts of earth with simple labels such as
here lie 5,000 dead or here lie uncounted dead make be believe that
accepting the source of evil is not the way.  I also look to more recent
history, a small town called Srebeniza when 7,000+ died because people just
stood by.  You may be willing to accept that, I am not.

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Oh no, Bill, that sounds far too simple. It is not the
question to eradicate groups guided by hate. No, again no.
It is necessary that WE change our mind  our policy toward
them by abandoning our elitarian thinking, our just business
orientated thinking. WE (I say WE for US, E.U., J etc.)
plunder the resources of military weaker nations, thread
them with our sophisticated military power, spoil their
environment, faith, language, behaviour, life. We spoil them
with our junk food  junk products nobody is really
interested to have (but we buy), just to fill the bank
accounts of a few  No wonder, some of them, with a
similar narrow mind as ours, remorse with hate  hate driven
attacks, violence with violence, eye by eye, teeth by teeth,
like the Old Testament. But we forget living in the (so
called) high sophisticated  (mentally  physically)
liberated 21st century. No, we have fallen back to the
deepest Middle Ages. Watch our language, how has it fallen
to the primitivest level. How many millions in our
maleducated society can really read  understand what they
read ? If you will not be my brother, I break your head.
Is that the guide-sentence of this century ? It seems to be
so.##

Give up this attitudes of lamentation, if yours became
targets of injust attacks. Force your politicians to
preach forgiveness, tolerance, anti-violence (even it will
become of disadvantage for you  yours), anti-racism,
cosmopolitanism, wisdom, peace, anti-exploitism 
And hate will disappear, but love each other will bring a
better world.

If you can contribute to that, by expressing love with the
horn, you might contribute to the understanding of nations
by the use of the music, the international language, but not
by the big-bang-bang-wooom-woom.

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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:00 PM
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Hit and run eh?  Oh well Burke felt that actions of the
British Crown (George III) were alienating the colonist.

Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights
associated with your government-they will cling and grapple
to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear
them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood
that your government may be one thing and their privileges
another, that these two things may exist without any mutual
relation - the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and
everything hastens to decay and dissolution.

The fact is that there is a small group of people a foot in
the world guided by hate more than anything else.  If
history has taught us anything, non-violence only works in
changing the minds of people who have something other than
hate as their guiding philosophy.



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Re: [Hornlist] Marching French Horn

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Gross
Sandra. . .

I wonder if similar type (not identical, just similar) paths exist in other
places around the world.  There is a long held tradition of brass bands in
the UK.  Wonder if there is something similar in Europe, Asia, etc,

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OK Bill - you've opened a door, and I hope you're not sorry!  Not only is
the new Boston tubist a former member of a DCI corps, but so is the new
principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony.  There is also a former DCI
member in the Met trumpet section.  Al Chez, trumpet player for David
Lettermen, did his time in corps, as has at least one studio French horn
player out in LA.  Jazz improvisation has not escaped the world of the horn
- Chris Komer, a very well known NY based free lance player (as well as NJ
symphony 3rd  horn and Burning River Brass member) marched with a very good
group from California and is an amazing improvisation talent!  And the
Boston Brass features a former DCI marcher on horn.

[. . .] 


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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Jonathan West
Bill, Hans,

You are both right in your different ways, but without realising the fact,
you appear to be addressing different questions.

Regarding those who have already become terrorists, there is little that can
be done except to maintain vigilance and work hard to hunt them down and put
them in jail. Nonviolence is not going to persuade existing active
terrorists to change their aims or their methods. Something more active is
necessary.

But that will not prevent ongoing terrorist attacks like the one in London
this week, so long as the conditions remain that cause people to become so
filled with desperation that a very small proportion turn to fanaticism,
hate and terrorism, and a somewhat larger proportion provide varying degrees
of support, ranging from providing money to merely looking the other way and
not telling the police about anything they might see. Provided that there is
a regular supply of new terrorists and adequate passive support for them,
the problem will never go away.

This means that political action is necessary to address the injustices
suffered by the communities from which the terrorists come, so that those
who are *not* terrorists see that there are other effective ways of getting
justice. Only by doing so will the passive supporters be persuaded to
withdraw their support. Only when the terrorists have been detached from
their sources of support will it become possible to further restrict their
activities and eventually capture those remaining.

Note that I am not advocating negotiating with terrorists, though of
course that is exactly what the UK government did to successfully bring
peace to Northern Ireland. I am advocating that western governments act in
good faith to work to put right past and present injustices, and by this
means show the people of other countries that they need not regard the West
as their enemy.

Given that western governments have a long history of empire and other
interference in foreign countries, which has resulted in many injustices
which are felt by people today, this is probably a task which will take a
generation or longer to accomplish. All the more reason to start now.

Regards
Jonathan West

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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Tom Spillman
Jonathan, Bill, Hans...

I think some of the solutions being posited might have worked with the 
economic terrorists of the past.  However, for example, Ben Ladin is 
hardly from a disadvantaged country or society.  His father is/was one 
of the wealthiest men in Saudi Arabia and his own personal fortune was 
financing his organization in the early days.  He is hardly 
disadvantaged or desperate.  In my opinion, pacifism will only work if 
all sides feel the same way and will respect one another.

How does one confront religious fanaticism that is dedicated to the 
proposition of eliminating all nonbelievers?  What is our crime, other 
than not believing in the Qu'aran?  Allowing our women to be educated or 
drive cars?  What economic advantage have we gained from them?  Economic 
exploitation may have been very true in the nineteenth century, but most 
such empires are long gone.

Their goal appears to be the destruction of modern western civilization 
and societies and, as an inhabitant of one of those societies, I have no 
plans in acquiescing to their goals.

I will not attack them unless attacked. 

Then, if attacked, I will retaliate in overwhelming force...

Regards (from an OLD -- 74 -- modestly decorated  veteran of the Korean 
war)...

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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
Jonathan, 

I will give you a example how to deal with the past. It
comes from China, where it was use in long distant history,
that ALL enemy troops were beheaded.

Butr there is an important example how to deal with the
political past. It is on display at LINTONG. Does it ring ?
No, surely. The Lintong accident during the Chinese-Japanese
War, when Red Army troups captivated the whole general-staff
of Chiangkaishek  himself at this beautiful Tang Period
thermae. 

There are some large pictures on display showing Mao Tse
Tung, ChiangKaiShek, Chue-en-Lai, etc. standing in one line.
The inscription reads:  ChiangKaiShek, a big leader of the
Chinese People, who later went his own way. That´s how to
deal with the past, not eradicate physically. This display
has be seen by myself in place not now, after things have
become quite liberal in China, but some 20 years ago  later
on several visits.

And further: we have to abandon our elitarian claim, that
the Christian religion is the only one leading to the hail
 Other religions claim the same, but Buddhism is just a
peaceful philosophy of life  every single individual has to
find his or her path in life. The so called religion is just
of help, if necessary  wished by the individual.

Read elder etnological dictionaries or encyclopedias and
wonder about the prejudice of OUR (white) ancestors. You
would be terribly ashamed about their view. And this very
particular (colonialist) spirit is still existant  wide
spread.

Has anybody ever heard about the daily murders in the
Southern provinces of Thailand ? Where teachers, monks,
officials, housewives, children are slaughtered in the name
of Islam ? They talk about islamist, but the murderers are
the former drug contrabandists, robbers of any kind, which
are disturbed in their particular business by the presence
of a large police  military force. Or do they just
eliminate witnesses ? 

Sorry, things go off our horn topic due to the actual
tragedies happen.




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Bill, Hans,

You are both right in your different ways, but without
realising the fact, you appear to be addressing different
questions.

Regarding those who have already become terrorists, there is
little that can be done except to maintain vigilance and
work hard to hunt them down and put them in jail.
Nonviolence is not going to persuade existing active
terrorists to change their aims or their methods. Something
more active is necessary.

But that will not prevent ongoing terrorist attacks like the
one in London this week, so long as the conditions remain
that cause people to become so filled with desperation that
a very small proportion turn to fanaticism, hate and
terrorism, and a somewhat larger proportion provide varying
degrees of support, ranging from providing money to merely
looking the other way and not telling the police about
anything they might see. Provided that there is a regular
supply of new terrorists and adequate passive support for
them, the problem will never go away.

This means that political action is necessary to address the
injustices suffered by the communities from which the
terrorists come, so that those who are *not* terrorists see
that there are other effective ways of getting justice. Only
by doing so will the passive supporters be persuaded to
withdraw their support. Only when the terrorists have been
detached from their sources of support will it become
possible to further restrict their activities and eventually
capture those remaining.

Note that I am not advocating negotiating with terrorists,
though of course that is exactly what the UK government did
to successfully bring peace to Northern Ireland. I am
advocating that western governments act in good faith to
work to put right past and present injustices, and by this
means show the people of other countries that they need not
regard the West as their enemy.

Given that western governments have a long history of empire
and other interference in foreign countries, which has
resulted in many injustices which are felt by people today,
this is probably a task which will take a generation or
longer to accomplish. All the more reason to start now.

Regards
Jonathan West

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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Gross
Jonathan,

From your lips to Rumsfeld's ear. (With apologies to my Jewish friends.)

War is not conducted with weapons alone.  One of the short falls of the US
effort against Islamic terrorist is the failure of creating an information
campaign to convince the majority of the Islamic world that the future for
all of us is in peaceful resolution of disagreements.  Force is not without
use in this situation, it's just one of the tools in the kit bag.

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[. . .]
I want the killing to stop. I want *all* the killing to stop, both of our
friends and of our enemies. I am willing to explore whatever means will
actually achieve that end. I am not prepared to countenance genocide, but
short of genocide the facts demonstrate that force alone will not win.
Therefore persuasion *must* be an element of the strategy.

Regards
Jonathan West

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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Tom Spillman
This has, as I feared, turned into a political discussion with each 
stating the facts that are obvious to them (including me!).  
Unfortunately, there is little agreement as to what the facts are.

Accordingly, I'll not reply any further to this thread.  I have not 
changed my mind, nor do I imagine that anyone else has changed theirs.  
However, as a last gasp, I have a question and a comment for Jonathan:  
How did we /persuade/ Hitler et al to cease and desist?  I think our 
methods with Al Quaeda (sp?) will be about as successful.

I will only respond to posts about horns and hornplaying from now on...

Regards

Tom

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[Hornlist] descant horn

2005-07-08 Thread MARKSUERON
Could someone tell me what works(general and maybe specific) descant  horns 
are used on, assuming one's not using a triple.
 
Thanks,
 
Ron
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Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread Jonathan West
Tom,

If you had read my posts carefully, you would have realised that I am not
suggesting that it is practical to persuade Al Qaida to cease  desist. I
was proposing that persuasion of *others* is a necessary part of a strategy
for defeating Al Qaida by cutting it off from the sources of support and new
recruits it requires in order to continue to operate. Retaliation in
overwhelmeng force is in my view counterproductive because (for reasons
stated earlier) the net effect is to increase the number of new recruits.

Regards
Jonathan West

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Re: [Hornlist] descant horn

2005-07-08 Thread Paul Rincon
Giulio Ceasare - Handel
Bach Cantatas such as Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild
Baroque Horn Concerti such as the Knechtl
Brandenburg nr. 1, Bach B minor mass...

Those are just a few - of course there's more works - but those are the ones 
I can think off at the moment!

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[Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread matthew scheffelman
If one wants peace, you( or they ) must accept the
consequences. I doubt these religious fundamentalist
radicals will ever accept peace. Hiding in the love
for community and brotherhood, terrorists thrive off
the trust of others belonging to the same belief
,unless brainwashing is employed, it will never end.

War will never be the same as it was in the two world
wars, or vietnam, Korea. A strong UN must step up to
fix the years of mistakes(yugoslavia).

I truly believe our western culture is positive for
the future for one Huge reason. The empowerment of the
Female in controling her body for all purposes.
This is the biggest fear among Men in all non-western
cultures, more so the middle east. I will not spout my
reasons of strength for the American Woman.

Matthew Scheffelman
Horn


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Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread Jerry Houston
matthew scheffelman wrote:

  (considerable spouting snipped)
 
 ... I will not spout my
 reasons of strength for the American Woman.

I admire and appreciate your restraint.
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Re: [Hornlist] descant horn

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
Paul, not only for these works. There are delicate high
arias in some of Mozart dramatic works or in Haydns
sinfonias or in pre-classic symphonic works, which can be
played on the double horn easily, but sound much better if a
descant horn is used, as the sound is thinner. But, one has
to know, how to make a descant horn sound nice  sweet 
make it sing. This is not easy  needs a lot of experience. 

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Giulio Ceasare - Handel
Bach Cantatas such as Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild
Baroque Horn Concerti such as the Knechtl Brandenburg nr. 1,
Bach B minor mass...

Those are just a few - of course there's more works - but
those are the ones I can think off at the moment!

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Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
Matthew  others,

You forgot important facts or descriptions of the real
situation:

Women are not liberated (officially) in many muslim
societies, but they are in command of the business  the
household in real life there. There are really resticted
circles, where women are forced to use the Chador (veil),
because of the existing super-jealousy of their husbands.
But still there, women command everything except politics
(but they work behind the scene).

Women in muslim societies are protected against sexism 
attacks as there exists capital punishment for violators. If
you were invited to a muslim house, you would know that the
ladies wear Gucci  Dior under their Kaftan. 

That´s the one side. 

Religious fanatics fight against the spoilage of their
siciety by so called Western decadent behaviour, press, TV,
etc. - which is our fault. Why do we export such senseless 
disgusting  useless things to them ? Why do we always try
to imply our view of the society to other societies. Are we
really free ? I doubt. We live under the pressure of
consumism, we nealy believe all what is told us by the TV,
we believe it be the truth. 

An example: 
They also have brothels in muslim societies like in javanese
(95 % muslim) Djakarta, but as a westerner you will never
get any chance to visit one od these etablissements, as the
Javanese say: That is our case, our territory, no outsider
should touch ! 

We have to understand, that every society has limitations
with no exception. We have to understand that we with our
narrow (also !) view, are excluded from some parts of their
societies. And we have to respect.

Some of you talked about the rich being the source for
terrorism. That´s right, as they  special some of the
super-rich get the informations about the super corrupt
regimes in Saudi Arabia and ist super corrumped society (!!!
E.g. sex parties of any imaginable  unimaginable taste,
which nobody could even dream about in his worst nightmare,
just ten or twenty years ago !) 

and the former super corrupt regime in Iraq and the
corruption in all near East incl. Israel, who sells even
high sophisticated military equipment to their worst enemies
by using dark channels over third party middlemen.  All is
BUSINESS, even the TERRORISM. Some events might even been
arranged by our side, to get things done quickly, to join
forces for the GRIP ON OIL and other resources.

If we would give up this politics, we would have a chance to
calm down the waves, perhaps, if there would not be another
new business related reason behind the other side : POWER,
GRIP ON WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDER, from one side to the
other, no difference. But common men are BETWEEN. Right,
between MILL STONES. We SUFFER by the egocentrism of a few
 on BOTH SIDES. I see no difference if I been hit by a
suicide bomber or by a laser guided bomb or rocket  shot
from far away in a safe distance. If someone be killed or
injured, I do not care which side has done it. It makes no
difference at all.

You resonate on Srbrenica, but what about Ugand 
Rwanda-Burundi; Etiopia ? Have you forgotten Biafra ?
Cambodia ? Hiroshima, Dresden ? I do not blame our Western
friends for these two tragedies. It was just politics 
necessary perhaps. I blame mankind as a whole, to let such
things happen. Auschwitz, Mauthausen  the other lagers ? I
have seen them. We have the large documentary center here in
Dachau  I bring all my visiting friends to this place to
experience the HELL. But why did mankind let this happen ?
Did they close their eyes completely or were they drunk in
their magalomania ? And we supported Pol Pot  Idi Amin 
Saddam just for selfish interests.

I just work through the official 8000+ pages of the official
Kriegstagebuch of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (War diary
of the suppreme command) to learn more about the facts, but
learned, what nonsense came from The Fuehrer himself in his
sermons for the generals as early as three years before the
collaps, but all the generals remained silent until July
20th, 1944 when a handful of courageous amateur
revolutionaries tried to eliminate the devil -
unsuccessfully. But all the others remained TACET. That is
our illness, our tragedy.


It is ashaming for mankind. Deepest ashaming in the 21st
century. I really feel sorry for this world, I feel sorry
for all children. Their chances for the future are not so
nice. For myself, baaah, 63 years have passed quite o.k. I
am thankful for that, very thankful.


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If one wants peace, you( or they ) must accept the
consequences. I doubt these religious fundamentalist
radicals will ever accept peace. Hiding in the love for
community and brotherhood, terrorists thrive off the 

Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Gross
Were that it was that simple.

Take the case of Saudi Arabia for example.  It's a kingdom ruled by the
House of Sa'ud.  The Saudi family came to power through an alliance with the
Wahabbi Sect of Islam.  The Wahabbi Sect is one of ones holding to a very
strict, almost repressive version of Islam.  The House of Sa'ud like many
other governments around the world made a pact of convenience.  It was what
they needed at that time.

The Saudi family has been a force for change in the nation.  In the 1930 the
Saudi nation established its first radio station.  Their old Wahabbi pals
were dead set against it because there was no mention of radio in the Quran,
thus it must be of the devil.  The first broadcast was a reading of that
document. The King justified radio in his kingdom by asking how can this be
of the devil, it is providing the words of the Quran across the kingdom.  

The House of Sa'ud was a force for modernization until a group of radicals
captured the Mosque in Mecca in the late 1970s.  They were objecting to the
changes taking place.  The ruing family put down the radical ruthlessly but
this act had a major impact upon them.

Even today there is officially a strict segregation of women outside the
home. Places of employment must provide separate work spaces for women and
men.  Yet, many Saudi women looking for this employment will note on their
application or resume that they are willing to work in a mixed office.  In
one generation the number of educated women has gone from 20% to 80%.  That
is 80% of the female population of the kingdom has received some formal
classroom education.  There are many restrictions on women written into law.
Those laws are often more honored in the breach than in being obeyed.  The
Royal family almost follows a don't ask, don't tell policy wrt to women
outside the home.  

The Wahabbis get to run religious police in the kingdom.  They are the ones
who enforce these segregation laws.  Since the Wahabbis are a major fraction
of the population and part of the Royal Family's power base their ability to
enforce these laws varies from day to day as the Royal Family gages the need
to control the Wahabbis.  


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Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread Rob Kathner
Guys,

Please don't spam this list with political discussions - this is a horn 
list.

Thanks.


Bill Gross wrote:

Were that it was that simple.

Take the case of Saudi Arabia for example.  It's a kingdom ruled by the
House of Sa'ud.  The Saudi family came to power through an alliance with the
Wahabbi Sect of Islam.  The Wahabbi Sect is one of ones holding to a very
strict, almost repressive version of Islam.  The House of Sa'ud like many
other governments around the world made a pact of convenience.  It was what
they needed at that time.

The Saudi family has been a force for change in the nation.  In the 1930 the
Saudi nation established its first radio station.  Their old Wahabbi pals
were dead set against it because there was no mention of radio in the Quran,
thus it must be of the devil.  The first broadcast was a reading of that
document. The King justified radio in his kingdom by asking how can this be
of the devil, it is providing the words of the Quran across the kingdom.  

The House of Sa'ud was a force for modernization until a group of radicals
captured the Mosque in Mecca in the late 1970s.  They were objecting to the
changes taking place.  The ruing family put down the radical ruthlessly but
this act had a major impact upon them.

Even today there is officially a strict segregation of women outside the
home. Places of employment must provide separate work spaces for women and
men.  Yet, many Saudi women looking for this employment will note on their
application or resume that they are willing to work in a mixed office.  In
one generation the number of educated women has gone from 20% to 80%.  That
is 80% of the female population of the kingdom has received some formal
classroom education.  There are many restrictions on women written into law.
Those laws are often more honored in the breach than in being obeyed.  The
Royal family almost follows a don't ask, don't tell policy wrt to women
outside the home.  

The Wahabbis get to run religious police in the kingdom.  They are the ones
who enforce these segregation laws.  Since the Wahabbis are a major fraction
of the population and part of the Royal Family's power base their ability to
enforce these laws varies from day to day as the Royal Family gages the need
to control the Wahabbis.  


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Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread Alan Cole
Hey, if you think I am an ignoramus on horn-related  musical stuff, just 
wait till you hear my cogent analysis of national  world events.

-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
  
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Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
To the lister who did not sign his name,
 
This is not spam, .  If the same subject is being discussed in six  months 
time then I may come to agree with you.
 
I prefer not to see ream after ream of horn-unrelated correspondence but  the 
odd venture into the wide world can sometimes be enlightening.
 
Please be patient for a while - there's been no animosity yet. :-)
 
All the best,
 
Lawrence
 
 
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[Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo Beethoven's 9th

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Gross
From what I've heard in modern performances of Beethoven's 9th the 4th Horn
Solo more often than not is performed by the Principal Horn rather than the
4th Horn.

How long has this been the practice?  Why did Beethoven score it for 4th
Horn if the Principal would end up playing it?  Was there that much
difference between expectations of 4th Horns players when he completed the
work and today?  Just curious.  


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Re: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo Beethoven's 9th

2005-07-08 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
Before the row about natural and valves starts, can I say that two weeks  ago 
we performed Beethoven 9 on natural horns - the 4th solo was played  
excellently on natural horn by the 4th horn, Dan Coghill. (who is  English).
 
All the best,
 
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Re: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo Beethoven's 9th

2005-07-08 Thread Alan Cole
I've never understood what it is about valves that's considered so unnatural.

-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
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At 04:06 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote:

Before the row about natural and valves starts, can I say that two weeks  ago
we performed Beethoven 9 on natural horns - the 4th solo was played
excellently on natural horn by the 4th horn, Dan Coghill. (who is  English).

All the best,

Lawrence

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Re: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo Beethoven's 9th

2005-07-08 Thread eric_d_james
I won't try to answer explain modern day practice but
in answer to your question:

 Why did Beethoven
 score it for 4th
 Horn if the Principal would end up playing it?  Was
 there that much
 difference between expectations of 4th Horns players
 when he completed the
 work and today?  

Beethoven did not score that part for 4th horn, he
scored it for second horn--the second of the pair in
Eb.  It is a classic Beethoven second horn solo.  Our
modern day concept of 4th horn did not exit in
Beethoven's time.  The only situation where horns would
be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 is if they were all in the same
key. 

Eric James
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Re: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo Beethoven's 9th

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
Even then back in history, orchestras had a working plan and
employment lists. Sometimes they wanted a very good player,
but there was no appropriate vacancy. So they hired the
better player, but he could be paid as a 4rth horn player
perhaps (receiving some compensation from the budget for a
defunct position). The plyer for the fourth horn solo in the
9th symphony was such a virtuoso, while many of todays 4rth
horn players are not used to be exposed that much with this
well known longer solo. So first horns, used to solo anyway,
took over. Has been so the entire 20th century in most
places (with exceptions, rare exceptions.)


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Subject: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo
Beethoven's 9th

From what I've heard in modern performances of Beethoven's
9th the 4th 
Horn
Solo more often than not is performed by the Principal Horn
rather than the 4th Horn.

How long has this been the practice?  Why did Beethoven
score it for 4th Horn if the Principal would end up playing
it?  Was there that much difference between expectations of
4th Horns players when he completed the work and today?
Just curious.  


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Re: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn Solo Beethoven's 9th

2005-07-08 Thread Hans
Sorry, Eric, if scored for corno secundo, it means, it was
scored for a player who had everything except the extrem
high register , the clarino register. The modern horn
player. The extreme high players were named Prim Hornist
(Corno primo). Leutgeb was a corno secundo. In Beethovens
symphony nop.9 there are brilliant samples of battere come
secundo corno (in the 12/8 rhythm, the triades).

 

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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Warning - Horn Related 4th Horn
Solo Beethoven's 9th

I won't try to answer explain modern day practice but in
answer to your question:

 Why did Beethoven
 score it for 4th
 Horn if the Principal would end up playing it?  Was there
that much 
 difference between expectations of 4th Horns players when
he completed 
 the work and today?

Beethoven did not score that part for 4th horn, he scored it
for second horn--the second of the pair in Eb.  It is a
classic Beethoven second horn solo.  Our modern day concept
of 4th horn did not exit in Beethoven's time.  The only
situation where horns would be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 is if
they were all in the same key. 

Eric James
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Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...

2005-07-08 Thread billbamberg
As I get older, I find myself less and less able to see things in black and 
white, as I did when I was younger.  However, I've found that reducing things 
to simplicity doesn't require black or white, or good or evil classification.  
In the world today, and probably back to the cave man, we can put all people 
into one of two categories; A. those who feel empowered to personally take, or 
destroy, the lives of others, for any reason, and, B those who delegate 
retribution and punishment to acceptable authority entrusted to defend the 
rights of all.  Either way can work, but majority must demand that one set of 
rules be applied to everyone.  The day of the sword and sixgun is fairly 
recent.  If you carried a weapon, best be prepared to use it.  I have cats that 
like to kill birds.  The cat's aren't evil, they're cats.  A tree hugger 
neighbor put bells on the cats to protect her bird feeder.  One by one the cats 
disappeared.  Those bells were dinner bells to the local coyotes.  The coyotes 
aren't evil, they're coyotes.  I told the tree hugger I'd put the bells back on 
if she arranges the extermination of the coyotes.  Interestingly, a mountain 
lion ate a bicyclist a few months back and started talk of eradicating the 
lions.  Fortunately, they're protected because they eat the coyotes.
 
People collectively have to decide what to do.  With all the scare about 
terrorists, the US is constantly putting violent sex offenders back on the 
street, which creates far more victims, by far, than the terrorists do.  
Terrorists are usually satisfied to cause disruption.  In the US, government 
agencies keep sex offenders supplied with Viagra.  Saturday Night Live should 
spoof that commercial.  Then again, we probably make a lot of money on the 
terrorist munitions.
 
 
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Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Peace ...


Matthew  others,

You forgot important facts or descriptions of the real
situation:

Women are not liberated (officially) in many muslim
societies, but they are in command of the business  the
household in real life there. There are really resticted
circles, where women are forced to use the Chador (veil),
because of the existing super-jealousy of their husbands.
But still there, women command everything except politics
(but they work behind the scene).

Women in muslim societies are protected against sexism 
attacks as there exists capital punishment for violators. If
you were invited to a muslim house, you would know that the
ladies wear Gucci  Dior under their Kaftan. 

That´s the one side. 

Religious fanatics fight against the spoilage of their
siciety by so called Western decadent behaviour, press, TV,
etc. - which is our fault. Why do we export such senseless 
disgusting  useless things to them ? Why do we always try
to imply our view of the society to other societies. Are we
really free ? I doubt. We live under the pressure of
consumism, we nealy believe all what is told us by the TV,
we believe it be the truth. 

An example: 
They also have brothels in muslim societies like in javanese
(95 % muslim) Djakarta, but as a westerner you will never
get any chance to visit one od these etablissements, as the
Javanese say: That is our case, our territory, no outsider
should touch ! 

We have to understand, that every society has limitations
with no exception. We have to understand that we with our
narrow (also !) view, are excluded from some parts of their
societies. And we have to respect.

Some of you talked about the rich being the source for
terrorism. That´s right, as they  special some of the
super-rich get the informations about the super corrupt
regimes in Saudi Arabia and ist super corrumped society (!!!
E.g. sex parties of any imaginable  unimaginable taste,
which nobody could even dream about in his worst nightmare,
just ten or twenty years ago !) 

and the former super corrupt regime in Iraq and the
corruption in all near East incl. Israel, who sells even
high sophisticated military equipment to their worst enemies
by using dark channels over third party middlemen.  All is
BUSINESS, even the TERRORISM. Some events might even been
arranged by our side, to get things done quickly, to join
forces for the GRIP ON OIL and other resources.

If we would give up this politics, we would have a chance to
calm down the waves, perhaps, if there would not be another
new business related reason behind the other side : POWER,
GRIP ON WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDER, from one side to the
other, no difference. But common men are BETWEEN. Right,
between MILL STONES. We SUFFER by the egocentrism of a few
 on BOTH SIDES. I see no difference if I been hit by a
suicide bomber or by a laser guided bomb or rocket  shot
from far away in a safe distance. If someone be killed or
injured, I do not care which side has done it. It makes no
difference at all.

You resonate on Srbrenica, but 

Re: [Hornlist] UK attack - NHR

2005-07-08 Thread David Goldberg
Bill, Jonathan, Hans, others interested and concerned, check this out for 
some background on the attack:

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2742


{  David Goldberg:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  }
{ Math Dept, Washtenaw Community College }
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