Robert, this is not an interaction between a bird & the horn player.
The bird scene is after the killing of the dragon. Siegfried, the horn
player, takes bath in the blood of the murdered dragon upon the birds
recommendation.
Siegfried tried to make conversation with the bird, but unsuccessfully
Hypertension medications can affect one's horn playing. This is because these
medications can affect one' embouchure. These medications do one or more of
the following: reduce the heart's pumping pressure, reduce pulse, dilate blood
vessels, reduce the body's fluid volume. These effects swell or
I was approached by a composer who asked me to demonstrate what "special
effects" could be achieved on the horn. I did what I could and managed to
produce a whole range of noises from the mildly amusing to the downright
disgusting. There was plenty for him to choose from. He didn't choose
Some years back Karlheinz Stockhausen was commissioned to write a piece for
symphonic band for, I believe, either UCLA or one of the univerisities in
Colorado, I can't recall. (Maybe somebody on the list has heard about this?)
A couple of years went by when the commissioners asked Stockhausen how t
Hello All:
I've never in my 30+ years of playing professionally been asked to
"Pop" my mouthpiece in a composition. My old band director in Public
School lectured all the brass about it so vociferously that the sound
makes me cringe to this day! (I suspect he was tired of having to
remove stu
On Jun 29, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Charles Turner wrote:
On Jun 29, 2004, at 7:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from: Dan Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
subject: [Hornlist] ACE inhibitors
Does anyone have experience with ACE inhibitors, specifically
Lisinopril?
I'd be interested to know the embouchure sympt
On Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 08:40 AM, Hans Pizka wrote:
As a human being, Wagner was a disgusting man. But what an artist.
There lies the main issue. It seems to me that various points follow on
from
this.
One of my favorite readings is a short chapter on Wagner found in Of
Men and Music, a ser
The best story about that is of "The General", Arkady Yegudkin. A
conductor, can't recall who, once threw a baton at Yegudkin. He
promptly stood up and threw his horn at the conductor! The General
then said, "OK, I buy you new Schtick; you buy me new horn!"
Love it! Paul Mansur
On Tuesday
While I can agree with you on most points I might ask you one thing:
Were the composers of the German & Austrian Marching music anti-Semitic,
just because their compositions were used by any SS-brass band ? No,
they weren´t, as even the hornists of an SS-brass band or a fire guard
band blew straig
> As a human being, Wagner was a disgusting man. But what an artist.
There lies the main issue. It seems to me that various points follow on from
this.
1. It is possible to be a great artist and at the same time to be a complete
shit. It is even surprisingly common!
2. It is a valid field of st
Robert, we really have to distinct between artistic creations and
personal behaviour or political rassistic (anyway stupid as nobody ever
got the chance to choose his or her mother) or sexual inclination or
orientation.
As a human being, Wagner was a disgusting man. But what an artist. And
how ab
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