[Hornlist] Favorite Pieces from youth
I am presenting a lecture on horn pedagogy at the state music educators convention in the spring. I am putting together a list of some of my favorite solos from my youth and the tunes my son played as he was growing up. Several tunes were recommended by Thomas Bacon via his web site. I want to invite everyone to submit the names of pieces that you may have enjoyed as a young horn player that may not be on the list of "standard" pieces for horn solo. Perhaps my favorite is "Four Easy Pieces" by Alec Wilder (Margun Music publisher). My son played this in elementary school. I will never forget his smile after playing the little horn glissando at the end of one of the movements. Please add any of your favorites. Thanks, Luke Zyla, 2nd horn WV Symphony Orchestra www.wvsymphony.org ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] French Horn, a poem
Cousins, a double post. The current issue of the New Yorker magazine has in it a very sweet poem, by Jane Hirshfield, about love and lust, plum trees and bees, Mahler 5 and the French horn. Read it, here: http://tinyurl.com/cloqa7 --John * John Mason Charlottesville, Virginia Cape Town, South Africa ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] inauguration day
Here is a really nice picture of the inauguratoin a few weeks ago. The neat thing is that you can zoom in for great detail. Forget about the people on stage, there is the Marine Corp. horn section in full cold glory right under Mr. Obama. (That is the USMC band isn't it?) Mark Q, your still in the band? LLB ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] Re: Die Rosenfee
Good research. Thanks. You are fortunate to have had access to the score. I comclude that Gumpert is the culprit. But why Schumann when operas by Halevy are included in other volumes of Gumpert's Orchestral Excerpts? Well, we can always blame someone else, perhaps the printer. Regards. ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Doubling instruments
Did you take the time to explain to them that they do not need to worry about wearing the white gloves and that the tarnish induced is an layer of gases that actually protects the finish of the bell? Then, did you show them your gloriously unlacquered horn as proof? Carlisle Landel wrote: So there I was, subbing on 4th for the local community orchestra. (I got the plea for me to sub with two rehearsals to go, including dress.) One piece was a premiere of an orchestral arrangement of a piece that included handbells. It was dress rehearsal and it turned out that there weren't enough handbell players to cover the parts. The percussionists were otherwise occupied. The third and fourth horns were sitting out for this piece, so I volunteered to play the handbell in G. Yep. It's official. I am now a ringer! Carlisle ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/jeremy%40sublymerecords.com ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] re: Doubling instruments
And what, pray tell, was the piece? Ellen Woodard (a horn player who does a lot more ringing - handbells, that is - these days) Carlisle Landel wrote: > So there I was, subbing on 4th for the local community orchestra. (I > got the plea for me to sub with two rehearsals to go, including > dress.) One piece was a premiere of an orchestral arrangement of a > piece that included handbells. It was dress rehearsal and it turned > out that there weren't enough handbell players to cover the parts. > The percussionists were otherwise occupied. The third and fourth > horns were sitting out for this piece, so I volunteered to play the > handbell in G. > > Yep. > > It's official. > > I am now a ringer! > > Carlisle ** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] Die Rosenfee again
I did a page-by-page search in the orchestral score of Halevy's opera "La fee aux roses" and, sure enough, it contains the tune which appears in the Pottag excerpt book. It appears in the first number of Act I, right after the overture. However, the tune is sung by the bass lead (Altamuc) and is not played by the horn. In fact, the horn never has a solo like the one seen in the Pottag book throughout the whole opera. It may be that the opera was mounted in Germany after the Paris production of 1849. And perhaps, as sometimes happened, the opera underwent a re-write. I can find no evidence of a German production of "Die Rosenfee" yet, but I'll keep looking. According to the Hofmeister catalogue, an edition of the score was published in 1850 by the publisher Schlesinger of Berlin under the name "Die Rosenfee". So, perhaps there was a German production. There is also the question of how Schumann's name came to be attached to the excerpt. So, for good measure I also did a search through two Schumann scores which I thought might have something to do with it: "Paradies und die Peri" (for fairies); and "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" (for roses). Neither score yielded anything remotely like the excerpt. To sum up, the excerpt, or at least the melody, is NOT by Schumann but by Fromental Halevy. There is no horn passage in the original score like the one in Pottag, Volume 2. Eric James ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
