Re: [Hornlist] gender, marital and family status - Reply to Hans

2002-10-28 Thread Karen McGale Fiehler
Hello! I am back from the Western US Horn Symposium. Congratulations to Bill Bernatis of UNLV for organizing and hosting such a wonderful event! Now for my reply to Hans. I was very curious about why people dont use self examination if they would fit the requirements. Most of these have no ide

Re: [Hornlist] Re:Verdi

2002-10-28 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
Why do you play music at all ? ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > In a message dated 10/28/02 1:01:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > If you get tired with the afterbeats, friends = > > on the list, it is your fault, only your fa

Re: [Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread John Baumgart
- Original Message - From: "Bill Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:35 AM > So Congress passed a law two years ago allowing a recorded version of taps when a horn player is unavailable. Congress perpetrating bugler fraud. Why doesn't this surprise me? I wonder

[Hornlist] Re: First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread mccurley5
Hi, all, I just had to respond on this. My dad passed away almost a year ago at the age of 72. I was on a 3 week tour at the time with a small touring orchestra doing Christmas and film music. When I left to go on the trip, I thought he had a cold. I was in Vermilion South Dakota when I got word t

[Hornlist] Re:Verdi

2002-10-28 Thread MUMFORDHornworks
In a message dated 10/28/02 1:01:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If you get tired with the afterbeats, friends = > on the list, it is your fault, only your fault, as you see the music from y= > our very narrow horizon of your part. Listen to the wonderful melodies of t=

Re: [Hornlist] The Longestest Call

2002-10-28 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
Hey, my dear friend, my brother (violinist in the same orchestra) just suggested to me to fart the Long Call in this new production OR play that solo no matter how loud the audience will boo or laughter about what happen on stage. As conductors usually have difficulties to pick up my tempo with

Re: [Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
I just converted it to 719KB at 64 Bit sampling rate. But the excitement ..? It is great satisfaction, to have the success of a whole production just on your lips .. "David Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Richard Berth

Re: [Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread David Goldberg
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Richard Berthelsdorf wrote: > Bill Gross forwarded to us: > > ...Congress passed a law two years ago allowing a recorded > > version of taps when a horn player is unavailable... > > Perhaps they should try asking trumpet players, instead. > > Actually, I find this even more re

(NHR) RE: [Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread Tony Stratton
I hope the "synthetic bugle in a bell" isn't using Windows NT 4.0... While Microsoft continues to trumpet the success of its NT operating system over Unix-based systems, the US Navy is having second thoughts about putting NT at the helm. A system failure on the USS Yorktown last September temporar

Re: [Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Louttit
Actually there is a volunteer group of trumpet players nation-wide which was formed to provide volunteer buglers for veteran's funerals. Too bad that the idea of using a faux bugle has caught on, appearance being the most important factor, sorry to see that the old military concept of "If it looks

[Hornlist] The Longestest Call

2002-10-28 Thread HORNTRASH
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Hans Pizka wrote: > >...It is really ashaming, the > >scandal predictable. But the wonderful music ? Yes, the music > >will suffer, our musical effort will suffer. > > > >These beasts are driving the audiences out of the theatres. > Now, Hans,

Re: [Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread Robert Dickow
I presume that one other prerequisite for the whole package, described below, is that one should be dead. Bob Dickow -- From: Bill Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Under law, honorably discharged veterans are entitled to a two-person uniformed honor guard, the folding and presentation of the U.

[Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread Richard Berthelsdorf
Bill Gross forwarded to us: > ...Congress passed a law two years ago allowing a recorded > version of taps when a horn player is unavailable... Perhaps they should try asking trumpet players, instead. Actually, I find this even more repugnant than the opera travesty. - Richard ___

[Hornlist] First the Ring - Now Veterans Cemeteries

2002-10-28 Thread Bill Gross
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Just as a kind of side note to the changes opera is under going. This item ran in the Washington Post. Taps to Hit Digital Note at Burials Short of Buglers, Military Turns to Electronic Horns for H

[Hornlist] forget to mention things before LONG CALL

2002-10-28 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
Well, I forgot to mention one crazy thing just before the LONG CALL: When Siegfried attempts to imitate the little forest bird by blowing on the cane (best illusatrated acoustically by the Cor anglais !), he blows a straw attached to a big egg (fore runner of the Cor anglais perhaps ?? What a gr

[Hornlist] Siegfried more, third act on Tuesday.

2002-10-28 Thread Richard Berthelsdorf
I suppose that the people who hold the purse strings are allowing this travesty to occur in a vain attempt to attract new audience. The amazing thing is that one or two people actually think they are generating great art! Hans is right - this is a kind of pornography. What a shame. - Richard