[Hornlist] PING: Looking for David Thompson...

2005-05-30 Thread James Ray Crenshaw
David Thompson, please contact me off-list concerning a case. I've e-mailed you and, POOF! Nothing happened. Don't know if I have the wrong address, etc... jrc in SC ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at

Re: [Hornlist] PING: Looking for David Thompson...

2005-05-30 Thread Steve Tarter
I would also like to hear from David off-list regarding some undelivered merchandise (even though my Paypal account paid for it), three or four unanswered emails and an unanswered fax. ---Steve Tarter--- Tokyo, Japan On May 30, 2005, at 6:56 PM, James Ray Crenshaw wrote: David Thompson,

RE: [Hornlist] Other Horn Sightings

2005-05-30 Thread Joe Scarpelli
One of my favorite horn sightings was from the movie Fame where 1 or 2 horn players were practicing in the Boy's room sitting in the stalls. As I graduated from Performing Arts in '68 before the movie was made, I like to think it was modeled after me and Steve. Regards, Joe -Original

RE: [Hornlist] PING: Looking for David Thompson...

2005-05-30 Thread David B. Thompson
I would also like to hear from David off-list regarding some undelivered merchandise If you were writing to me on my personal account, and looking for a timely response from me personally, then I am not surprised by your frustration - though I do most sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

Re: [Hornlist] Other Horn Sightings

2005-05-30 Thread Paul Mansur
On Monday, May 30, 2005, at 06:22 AM, Joe Scarpelli wrote: Which makes me wonder... did they have lacquered brass instruments around 1900? I suspect they did. Lacquer was in existence then, witness all the Asian lacquered bowls, trays, et al that were then around. Went through the

RE: [Hornlist] Other Horn Sightings

2005-05-30 Thread hans
Sorry, Paul, to oppose. These lacquered Chinese Japanese things on display in Belvedere Castle Schoenbrunn Castle in Vienna are much different to brass wind instruments. They are made of wood. The chinese Japanes lacquer as well as lacquer from Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand or Indonesia is a

[Hornlist] Lacquered horns 1900 in movies

2005-05-30 Thread Leonard Brown
On Monday, May 30, 2005, at 06:22 AM, Joe Scarpelli wrote: Which makes me wonder... did they have lacquered brass instruments around 1900? Even if they didn't have lacquer they could shine up their instruments so they would look like todays factory fresh horns. It would be ok for a movie to

[Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Bob Gibson
GOD Help us from ex horn players turned Conductors(?) ! ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

RE: [Hornlist] Other Horn Sightings

2005-05-30 Thread Pandolfi, Orlando
I think one of the main characters in Six Feet Under cheats on her horn player boyfriend in season 3. I caught one episode where he walks in carrying his horn and discovers her with her old lover. I appreciate the Back to the Future sighting and want to note that the case was a period molded

RE: [Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread hans
Whom do you have in mind ? Joseph Keilberth (+), Barry Tuckwell, Michael Hoeltzel, Michael Thompson, Radek Baborak, Sebastian Weigle (ex solo horn State Opera Berlin, excellent conductor nice fellow, conducts Berlin State Opera, Dresden, Barcelona, Tokyo, etc.), ... -Original

Re: [Hornlist] saxhorn band

2005-05-30 Thread Dr. Carole Nowicke, Applied Health Science
On Sun, 29 May 2005, David Goldberg wrote: This is the website of Michigan's Dodworth Saxhorn Band, that plays sweet old music on original instruments. They were here in Bloomington for an early music festival. I was very pleased to meet Stan Towers--had put his photo in the ITEA Journal,

RE: [Hornlist] Other Horn Sightings

2005-05-30 Thread David Goldberg
Speaking of horns in stage plays, Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke has a part for a horn case, if not the horn itself. Alma's boyfriend Roger Doremus (Doremus: is that do re mi...?) is a French horn player, and he makes an appearance with it in act 1. His purpose here is to play the nerd,

RE: [Hornlist] Other Horn Sightings

2005-05-30 Thread Scott Avenell
I'm liking the play on words: Doremus = Do re, etc. as you mention and also doormouse. An unfortunate (albeit fictitious) name From: David Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Horn List horn@music.memphis.edu To: The Horn List horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Other Horn

Re: [Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Paul Mansur
On Monday, May 30, 2005, at 01:43 PM, Bob Gibson wrote: GOD Help us from ex horn players turned Conductors(?) ! ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/p_mansur1%40comcast.net I

RE: [Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Bill Gross
I thought I heard on the local classical music radio station that the director of the Fort Worth Symphony played horn in Argentina before switching to conducting and being picked up as the Music Director of the FWSO. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread hans
We will get a new music director, who´s biography says nothing about him having studied any instrument other than the baton ! Nobody could imagine such even in short time past ??? He has good working attitudes, but no idea about the instruments. You should ask the Dresden players about the

RE: [Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Wilbert Kimple
I've held back as long as I can, but no more Mister nice guy. I am a horn player AND a conductor, and proud of it. In fact, I enjoy the conducting more than the playing, but God has been kind, and at age 59 I can still pop out those high e's above the staff. I'm good to the bottom of the

[Hornlist] Re: I forgot

2005-05-30 Thread Wilbert Kimple
By the way, I'm off to conduct the musical West Side Story tonight. Getting well paid for that, too. Played a band concert in the park last night, and have rehearsal Tuesday night for Thursday night's pro band concert. Who says you can't do both? Wilbert

[Hornlist] Trumpet/horn duets

2005-05-30 Thread Nicholas Hartman Hartman
Hello list, I have a friend who is looking for some trumpet and horn duets, and I promised her I would ask you all. As far as I know, the available insturmentation is just one horn and one trumpet. Any and all titles would be great.

Re: [Hornlist] Trumpet/horn duets

2005-05-30 Thread Steve Tarter
French Suite written by Robert King and published by Robert King... I think it was originally written for trumpet and euphonium, but it comes with an optional horn part as an alternate for the euphonium. Has five or six short movements of varying style. On May 31, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Nicholas

[Hornlist] More hornist conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Richard V. West
Listers: I can think of a couple of others, under whom I've played: Edouard Forner, who conducted the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for a time, studied in Vienna. Horn with Gottfried von Freiberg and conducting with Hans Swarzowsky. Also Richard Dunn, who conducted several recordings during the

Re: [Hornlist] More hornist conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Norman del Mar (1919-1994) Klaus ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

[Hornlist] Mouthpiece boosters

2005-05-30 Thread Larry Jellison
Anyone use the Denis Wick mouthpiece booster? What does it do for you that you like? Anyone experiment with using a bolt nut on the mouthpiece stem as a booster? I have tried a few different sizes and weights of nuts and find a 3/8 medium sized nut, placed to clear the lower 3/4 of stem, works

RE: [Hornlist] PING: Looking for David Thompson...

2005-05-30 Thread Loren
As a Thompson Edition dealer, I currently have one of the Thompson visualizers in my stock which I will gladly send out at the regular Thompson price. Loren \@() [EMAIL PROTECTED] (520) 403-6897 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David

Re: [Hornlist] Conductors

2005-05-30 Thread Carl Bangs
I frequently cross over to the dark side and it has made me a better hornist. Carl Bangs ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org