[Hornlist] Re: Horn Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:00 AM Subject: Horn Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1 Send Horn mailing list submissions to horn@music.memphis.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Horn digest..." Please edit replies to include only relevant text. Please DO NOT include the entire digest in your reply. For more netiquette information, see: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Today's Topics: 1. Horn Studio Graduate Assistantship at Illinois State University (Joe Neisler) 2. Duets and Video Conference update. (Wendell Rider) 3. Re: Yamaha YHR 881 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 4. HAPPY HORNOWEEN (sort of and belateds) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 5. Re: HAPPY HORNOWEEN (sort of and belateds) (Carlberg Jones) -- message: 1 date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:23:35 -0500 from: Joe Neisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> subject: [Hornlist] Horn Studio Graduate Assistantship at Illinois State University Dear Colleagues, I am writing to publicize Graduate Assistantships and Tuition Waivers for Hornists at Illinois State University.Please post and/or share this announcement with those who may be interested. For more information, please reply directly to me at[EMAIL PROTECTED] Horn Studio Graduate Assistantship at Illinois State University The Illinois State University School of Music anticipates a Horn Studio Graduate Assistantship Vacancy and Graduate Tuition Waivers for hornists for 2007-2008. The Horn Studio Studio Graduate Assistantship is currently filled until Fall 2007, but Graduate Tuition Waivers for hornists are currently available. Stipend is $5,400. per year plus a full Tuition Waiver worth $5,100. per year for Illinois residents and $10,650. per year for non-residents. The assistantship is a renewable award worth up to $16,050. per year for non-residents. In addition to performing in a graduate brass or woodwind quintet and large ensemble, other duties may include instruction of studio overload/instruction of studio during faculty tours, assisting with Horn Choir and Master Class, coaching student chamber ensembles, studio teaching, classroom teaching or audio recording, depending on the candidate's interests and experience and departmental needs. Additional performance opportunities may be available in several regional orchestras. Current Studio enrollment is 20 students. Hermann Baumann, Barry Tuckwell, Gail Williams, Froydis Wekre, Eric Ruske, Martin Hackleman, Daniel Bourgue, hornists with the U.S. Marine, Army Field, and Navy Bands and hornists from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paris Opera, and the St. Louis, Houston, Baltimore and National Symphonies have presented Recitals, Concerts and Master Classes at ISU. Illinois State University is located in Bloomington-Normal, a musically active and culturally rich city of more than 100,000. Illinois State University offers the Master of Music in Performance, Conducting, Composition, Music Therapy and the Master of Music Education. The application deadline is March 1. For more information, contact Dr. Joe Neisler, Associate Professor of Horn, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the School of Music web site at http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/music/ -- Dr. Joe W. Neisler Associate Professor of Horn School of Music Campus Box 5660 Illinois State University Normal IL 61790-5660 Phone: 309-438-5063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solo Horn, Opera Illinois and The Prairie Ensemble Illinois State University Faculty Brass Quintet and Sonneries Quintet Conn-Selmer Educational Artist Bands of America Horn Clinician Jurist, International Horn Competition of America http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/faculty_staff/biographydetail.asp?u=jneisle http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/music/ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by email reply or by telephone at 309-438-5063 and immediately delete this message and any attachments. -- message: 2 date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:15:10 -0800 from: Wendell Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> subject: [Hornlist]
Re: [Hornlist] Unusual Horn
Please send a thorough photo documentation to me. Already from your text I have a strong suspicion about the maker and the history behind the horn. Blue print type shots of front and back, thorough documentatition of valves and stays, plus fully readable shots of all engravings. Klaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Corenut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - long time since I was seen loitering here. I am considering putting my > right-handed F/Bb compensating horn on eBay and thought I would let you know > before I do it so that if there is interest in this kind of thing, you know > where to find it. > > > > I cannot find ANYone who knows what make it is - there are just 3 crowns > stamped in the usual place on the flare where a maker's name would go, but > even a well respected researcher in the USA who has seen many pics of this > horn cannot identify the origin. > > > > When I've compiled a description and listed it, I'll post the number up here > so you can have a look if you're interested. (Most likely be listed this > coming weekend) > > > > I bought it about 7 years ago and it was sold as having belonged to that > famous Russian jazz horn-player, Arkady Shilkloper. I have nothing to prove > the link but he may verify this if asked (in a suitable language..) > > > > If you want to know anymore about it in the meantime, please e-mail me and > I'll try to be as helpful as I can. > > > > Regards, > > > > Paul > > UK > > ___ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com > __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] Unusual Horn
Hi - long time since I was seen loitering here. I am considering putting my right-handed F/Bb compensating horn on eBay and thought I would let you know before I do it so that if there is interest in this kind of thing, you know where to find it. I cannot find ANYone who knows what make it is - there are just 3 crowns stamped in the usual place on the flare where a maker's name would go, but even a well respected researcher in the USA who has seen many pics of this horn cannot identify the origin. When I've compiled a description and listed it, I'll post the number up here so you can have a look if you're interested. (Most likely be listed this coming weekend) I bought it about 7 years ago and it was sold as having belonged to that famous Russian jazz horn-player, Arkady Shilkloper. I have nothing to prove the link but he may verify this if asked (in a suitable language..) If you want to know anymore about it in the meantime, please e-mail me and I'll try to be as helpful as I can. Regards, Paul UK ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Radio City Music Hall News
Past interviewing Mollie local 802 which represents NY musicians is in a bitter struggle with Cablevision who are the new owners of RCMH. RCMH is threatening to tape and or hire SCAB musicians. They are making far reaching (Louisiana Phil) and local calls to hire an orchestra. This is a job with tenure and a CBA which is being renegotiated. The musicians have been picketing and will continue to picket outside RCMH. I would ask that if you are contacted for work at RCMH or to tape Christmas show music to contact Local 802 at 1-212-245-4802. Debbie Schmidt ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] Radio City Music Hall News
Howdy, folks! I'm pasting a New York times article below regarding the possible strike at Radio City Music Hall for two reasons: 1. They interviewed Mollie Pate, Principal Horn with the New Orleans Symphony, and 2. This is an extremely critical issue that all professional musicians need to be aware of. _ New York Times October 22, 2005 Saturday TO LOUISIANA MUSICIANS, RADIO CITY HAS LOST ITS ALLURE Daniel J. Wakin For struggling musicians of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, their season silenced by Hurricane Katrina, it sounded like a spectacular offer indeed: a 10-week job in New York, where they are due anyway for a joint benefit concert on Friday with the New York Philharmonic. At least $1,600 a week. Free transportation and lodging. And a chance to be part of a beloved tradition: to play for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. "It was kind of too good to be true," said Mollie Pate, the principal horn player, "and it really was." It turns out that there is already an orchestra that plays for the show, and its musicians are involved in a labor dispute with Radio City Entertainment, the producer, and its owner, Cablevision Systems. The Radio City players have authorized a strike. "We're totally out of work, but I still would never stoop so low to take somebody else's gig," Ms. Pate said. Once word of the dispute circulated among the Louisiana musicians, she said, she immediately dropped the idea, as did fellow members who had been approached. The trail that would have led Ms. Pate and her colleagues to Radio City is murky. She said she and another horn player, Samantha Woolf, had been contacted by a colleague, who was relaying the job offer from a New Orleans hiring agent. "We're pretty desperate," Ms. Woolf said. "It was presented, 'You want to come up here, people want to help you out, they'll put you up.' " The colleague, Rachel Jordan, a violinist, said she had passed on word of the job to seven or eight players without knowing the labor situation at Radio City. "If there's money to be made, I'm going to call the people I know," said Ms. Jordan, a 14-year member who said she was fighting to keep her job in a separate dispute with the orchestra. She said she had been approached by an agent in New Orleans, whom she would not identify. The agent, too, appeared not to know about the labor situation, said Ms. Jordan, who comes from a prominent New Orleans jazz family. A spokesman for Radio City Entertainment, Barry Watkins, would not respond specifically to the question of whether Radio City sought to hire Louisiana players. But he said of the Radio City musicians, "Once they threatened to strike, we had no choice but to explore all alternatives." Those alternatives, the producers have said, include recorded music or putting together another orchestra. The New York musicians union, Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, seized on the situation, sending out an alert to its members and other musician locals that Radio City was trying to hire replacement workers from Louisiana. "They lied to them up front," David Lennon, the local's president, said in an interview. "They said they wanted them to play the Radio City Christmas show, and that it was a gesture of charity, even with 802's blessing, when, in fact, that was not the case." He, too, would not identify the New Orleans agent. The first rehearsal for the Christmas show is scheduled for Friday, with performances beginning Nov. 3. Local 802 has called for a rally outside Radio City at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. No bargaining sessions are planned, both sides said. The old contract expired in May. The 35 Radio City musicians - an eclectic mix of top New York classical freelancers, Broadway musicians and jazz players - said Radio City was seeking to cut back on paying overtime, which the producers deny. Radio City said its last offer included increases in salary and benefits. "That is false," Mr. Lennon said. "They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions." The Christmas show is a substantial portion of the musicians' income. With more than 200 performances in the season, some can play up to six a day. A player who performs in most of them or doubles on several instruments (with extra pay) can earn $40,000. The extravaganza, which includes the Rockettes, is a big money producer for Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden and the Knicks and Rangers. The show, with most top tickets selling for $150 but some reaching $250, grossed $73.8 million last year, Cablevision said. It declined to say how much the show earned but said the expenses of paying 300 performers were high. ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] HAPPY HORNOWEEN (sort of and belateds)
At 8:57 AM -0500 11/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >http://www.thepetersonproject.com/Halloween.htm Unfortunately, on my Mac, this does not work. It says "Quicktime required." I have the latest Quicktime. But, I can imagine . . . Carlberg Carlberg Jones Guanajuato, Gto. MEXICO ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] HAPPY HORNOWEEN (sort of and belateds)
Now, please make the checkings out of this mostest hilariousest of filmings: _http://www.thepetersonproject.com/Halloween.htm_ (http://www.thepetersonproject.com/Halloween.htm) Kindestest of Greetonings and Mostestest of Hauntenings, Prof. I. M. Gestopftmitscheist Principal 8th horn and Principal 4th Wagner Tuber, Schplittenotendorf am Oedland Staatsoper und Philharmoniker, (ret.) Solo Horn, Exit 2 Brass Quintet Hornist, Broken Winds WW Quintet Solo 4th Horn (Leader, call me for bookings), Smirnoff Horn Quartet Assistant Associate Principal Mellophone, NJ Turnpike Authority Drum and Bugle Corps, "The Phantom Lane Changers" Hornist as Needed, L'Ensemble du Chambre des Palourdes Principal Natural Horn, I Soloisti di Feces Principal Baroque and Hunting Horn, Camarata Vongoleforte Adjunct, Part-time, Arms-length Professor of Horn and Pest Control, Exit 2 Community College, Exit 2, NJ Author, "The Kopprasch Connection," "Kopprasch for Fun and Profit," "Kopprasch for the New Millenium: Where Do you Fit In?" "Hooked on Hornonics," and "What If Saddam Had Given Ouday and Qusay Olds Ambassador or Conn Pan American Single F Horns and a Kopprasch Book Instead of AK 47's, Booze and Porn?" Founder, Director and CEO, Universal Institute for the Study, Preservation and Dissemination of Kopprasch Throughout the Solar System Founder and Guru Extraordinaire, Hornaholics Anonymous Grand Poobah of the Koppraschian Kult Director and Program Manager, The All Kopprasch Channel (AKC), Kopprasch Public Radio (KPR) Host of The Kopprasch Factor on AKC and All Kopprasch Considered on KPR Founder of Kopprasch Depot, your one stop shop for all you need! Interplanetarily Known Soloist and Artist of Record Exclusive Bundy, Carl Fischer, Olds Ambassador, Sansone and Conn Artist Who Does Not Get His Horns For Free Phone: yes Fax: yes E-mail: yes Website: no "Kopprasch doesn't scare me!" ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Yamaha YHR 881
My experience with descant horns, which is supported by the acoustical theory, is that a smaller bell throat allows production of a much superior French horn sound on the high horn. An F alto horn with a large throat approaces the proportions of a euphonium with the loss of a lot of the high harmonics. It is so much easier to find a mouthpiece to make a seamless transition between the horns with a smaller bell throat. There is nothing inherently less loud using a smaller bell throat. A smaller bell usually projects the sound better, giving the reflected sound more carry. Train yourself to hear your own sound coming back to you. Find some time where you can play in an empty auditorium. Take your Thompson, and practice symphonic excerpts. To increase the power of a smaller belled instrument, there are several ways to go. Since you are dealing with a descant horn, the options are a little different depending on whether you're playing full range or descant range. Although many players have gotten used to using a deep funnel mouthpiece (it takes the brilliance out of the Bb horn to match the dullness of a large throated F alto), proper cup depth acoustically scales with the length of the horn. A deep funnel mouthpiece is proper for a player who uses the standard F horn a lot. The proper cup for a Bb, F alto horn should be proportionately shallower. Since pop tone should be maintained, a large bowl shaped cup is appropriate. A smaller belled horn with a large, bowl shaped mouthpiece is used very effectively outside of 8D territory. Opening up the bore of the mouthpiece is another way to up throughput. You might want to consider changing the front end of the leadpipe. A larger venturi or faster taper can make a big difference. A lot of my serious playing was done on fourth horn. If you're successful getting a 'big' sound with a large, shallow mouthpiece, spend some time exploring the F alto horn for the very low register. The only other advice I have is, for full range playing on a descant, or even a single Bb, an F attachment is much more essential than a stopping valve. Get a crook made for the conversion,and learn to use it. -Original Message- From: Alon reuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: horn@music.memphis.edu Sent: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:41:13 +0200 Subject: [Hornlist] Yamaha YHR 881 Dear listers I have a discant Yamaha YHR 881 which is pretty good - it gave good results in in many challenging pieces , but I cannot get a dissent forte on this instrument . it has a middle small throat , and it seems to be the reason . Now I wonder - is there anybody who knows : a) if there is anybody out there who would trade a middle large bell+tail section for a middle small one ? b) In general- if I would assemble a yellow brass bell section on a gold brass body - should it create any problem? thanks Alon Reuven , Israel ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/billbamberg%40aol.com ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
