William wrote
I think of a nice 1775 Raoux when I think of
what a horn should sound like myself.
***
I prefer to think of a superb 1995 Veuve Cliquot
Champagne La Grande Dame, offering hints of
fresh fruit (especially citrus), followed by riper notes of
vanilla and nougat. In the
Professor Cabbage will bring his celebrated
Road show (in which he offers his so-called
explanation of the Physics of brass musical
instruments before taking up the natural horn
to commit serious injury to Beethoven Op. 17)
to southern California, enlarging the swath of
destruction in a region
In a message dated 06/11/2003 04:43:50 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The reason why im looking for a DIFFERENT piece is because my friends
said that the piece sounded like carnival music, and that is was freaky and
ugly.
Then your friends are idiots. The Handel Overture
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The Brain sound is an acquired taste because he used the world's
worst
horn ever made.
Dear All
This comment requires clarification! I do not think that anyone would
seriously regards DB's horns as the worst ever made!
DB's sound - like it or loathe
Paul Kampen wrote:
Although I was not a student of Syd's I heard him play live many times
and
was lucky to be able to work with him towards the end of his career.
In
fact, I may have been the last person to play 2nd to him (in Sibelius'
Violin Concerto when he decided to play 1st - rather
If you want a short piece International Opus publishes Le Basque
(arranged by Adam Lesnick) in both Brass and Wind 5tet versions. I saw
them at Ken Pope's on Monday.
Leigh
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 05:16 PM, Robert Dickow wrote:
Can anybody suggest a good piece for 'featured horn'
Leigh beat me to the punch on recommending Le Basque for brass quintet,
so I second the recommendation. The brass quintet version is a brief
show-off piece for solo horn with trumpets, trombone, tuba doing the
boom-chick accompaniment. It's in our playbook it's lots of fun.
Last winter,
Hey, wouldn't it be cool to do an all-horn arrangement of Le Basque, for
solo horn backed up by 4 more horns doing boom-chick?
If you couldn't get 5 hornists together, 1 capable hornist could do it via
digital tape overdubbing.
That would be something to hear, eh?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
There is an arraingement of Le Basque for Horn Quartet. I've played it
for an outdoor wedding.
Dave
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Alan Cole wrote:
Hey, wouldn't it be cool to do an all-horn arrangement of Le Basque, for
solo horn backed up by 4 more horns doing boom-chick?
If you couldn't get 5
The 8D sound is indeed alive--just go to the movies. I suspect that's where I
got my concept of horn sound. Probably many do. After that, in my
hyper-testosterone youth, Dennis Brain sounded wimpy.
I thank you in the list for the many thoughtful answers to my query about
guiding the kid in my
The University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music announces a
graduate assistantship in horn, to perform in the School's Graduate
Brass Quintet. Stipend is $6000-7000 per year plus a full tuition
waiver, for a total value of up to $14000. In addition to performing in
the quintet, other
Was wonderingwill this physics discussion include a explanation of
string theory? Though I missed the PBS Nova episodes of the past two
weeks, I have been told that this esoteric theory maintains that all matter,
at the sub-atomic level, is made up of discarded horn valve strings.
Fred
In a message dated 11/05/2003 2:32:38 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Granted, the custom makers are making horns that are superior to
anything coming out of the factories (allowing of course that individual
examples that are really superior come out of factories, and
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