RE: [Hornlist] Alex lubricant

2006-02-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
Rotten birds from Bird Flu & rotten fish from over polluted Rhine river & from North Sea, perhaps, who knows it these days. As with girlfriends (other mothers have beautiful daughters also !). Other factories make good lubricants too ! ==

[Hornlist] Bill McHenry/Raleigh/IBM is out of the office on vacation returning Thursday, Feb 23

2006-02-17 Thread Bill McHenry
I will be out of the office starting 02/17/2006 and will not return until 02/23/2006. I am out of the office on vacation until Thursday, Feb 23. For management support in my absence, please contact Joe Carrasco (650) 281-8294 (california) . For admin support please call Incosmea Thomas (70

Re: [Hornlist] Alex lubricant

2006-02-17 Thread BrassArtsUnlim
In a message dated 2/17/2006 10:10:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone happen to know what the Alex factory actually uses? -- Nelson, If it's a new Alex, then they almost certainly delivered it with Hetman lubricants. Alexander uses Josef Meinlschmitt valves, an

[Hornlist] Alex lubricant

2006-02-17 Thread nlaws2001
I recently purchased an Alex 103 and a set of lubricants came enclosed. The slide lubricant is quite effecitve and when I run out I would like to replenish with the same substance. But I have noticed that it smells curiously like cod liver oil. Does anyone happen to know what the Alex factory

Re: [Hornlist] Playing in Tune

2006-02-17 Thread Luke Zyla
If you want to develop a very tight section, get together to play ensembles. Warm-up with Bach Chorales and play anything else you can get your hands on. Spend time playing chords and listening for good intonation. Learn how to tune chords (lowering the third, raising the fifth, etc.), but most

RE: [Hornlist] Playing in Tune

2006-02-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
First, get your horns tuned & (most important) the valve slides adjusted accordingly. Then get tuned to the days principal horn. He or she is in command for the session. Next comes next session. But now he or she is in command. If all is tuned - not to the same note, but in chords, listen what´s go

[Hornlist] Playing in Tune

2006-02-17 Thread Sharon Curtis
Anyone got any tips for learning to play better in tune as a horn section (in an orchestra)? I think most of the tuning errors are coming from one of the players, but not all, and I couldn't swear that I'm always playing 100% in tune - and maybe I'm being drawn off pitch by the others?! The poi

[Hornlist] Richard Strauss horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread phirsch
This has exploration all been very interesting and I have to say that I am not that surprised that the heirs of Herr Strauss may be reluctant to have his extreme juvenilia released, though I do feel that it is an overly protective stance. I would like to apologize for speaking off the top of my he

Re: [Hornlist] 6-Horn Scoring Ranges?

2006-02-17 Thread LTraxx
what orchestra does Jim Rome play in? Larry ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] 6-Horn Scoring Ranges?

2006-02-17 Thread Walter E. Lewis
LT, From the way your post reads, it sounds like you are urrr, listening to WAY too much Jim Rome...You don't get racked on this one... Maybe you should take your diatribe over to the Yahoo list. Bear asked a legitimate question, he's been a long time member of this list. I am personally gla

RE: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread David B. Thompson
Peter Hirsch wrote: >I have no idea what the archives' response would be but why >not give it a try? I am afraid that I have to confirm Hans Pizka's report. Like Hans (and probably many others as well) long ago we tried to convince the Strauss heirs to permit the publication of those etudes, to n

Re: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread AdrianHitchborn
Barry Tuckwell recorded the Strauss concertos for EMI in1990,and I quote here from his notes in the CD booklet " He dedicated all his early horn compositions to his beloved papa.(seinem lieben Vater).The first of them were two Etudes written in 1873, when he was nine.They clearly show the lat

RE: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread Bill Gross
I must say that is a much more thoughtful, and gracious answer that some previously given. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:00 AM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Strauss Ho

Re: [Hornlist] Need help writing an advert!

2006-02-17 Thread Christine Ranson
Thankyou! From: Carlberg Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Horn List To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Need help writing an advert! Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:59:02 -0600 At 2:48 PM + 2/17/06, Christine Ranson wrote: >Hello, I have a Conn 11D that I need to sell, and I'm ha

[Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread phirsch
"LT" (it would be nice to know who I'm addressing, but that is another issue, entirely), I think that you may have misread my posting(s) about Strauss' Etudes. It is not that they are unknown to me and others, they just don't seem to have gone beyond the pencil copies residing in the Richard Stra

[Hornlist] Assistantship Stipend Increase at Illinois State University

2006-02-17 Thread Joe Neisler
Dear Colleagues, I am writing to inform you and your students that the previously advertised Stipends for Graduate Assistants at Illinois State University have recently increased to $6,300. per year per. Graduate Assistantships also include a Graduate Tuition Waiver worth $10,650. per year f

Re: [Hornlist] Need help writing an advert!

2006-02-17 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 2:48 PM + 2/17/06, Christine Ranson wrote: >Hello, I have a Conn 11D that I need to sell, and I'm having trouble >"bigging it up" so to speak. >Anybody know anything GOOD about it, & any tips for advertising? Or should >I just be dishonest & blag it to someone who doesn't really have a clue

[Hornlist] Need help writing an advert!

2006-02-17 Thread Christine Ranson
Hello, I have a Conn 11D that I need to sell, and I'm having trouble "bigging it up" so to speak. Anybody know anything GOOD about it, & any tips for advertising? Or should I just be dishonest & blag it to someone who doesn't really have a clue? (I dissaprove of the latter! It's unfair & it ha

RE: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread Christine Ranson
I have been using some Franz Strauss Etudes for my recent technical exam..if that's any help? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Horn List To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:33:17 -0500 As I promised yesterday, I did check the

[Hornlist] The Horn Effect Day

2006-02-17 Thread ken
There hasn't been much news about The Horn Effect day in Pittsburgh on March 19th - so I just want to alert all players out there about this event. The Website is: http://www.pittsburghchambermusic.org/ed_out/2005/horn.php. The PSO's horn section is one of the best you will ever get a chance to h

RE: [Hornlist] Bells Up in Opera/Ballet

2006-02-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
What is so important about "bell up" ? A "bad carnal sound" can be produced without "the bell in the air". One just needs the imagination & the playing abilities to do so. Right hand a bit wider open, more air - not pushed, but released - to sound a bit hollow. Did Strawinsky have "nordic lures" in

RE: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
My goodness, a mature composer as a 50 years old Dukas is by no means better than a 16 year old Strauss - see the horn concerto opwhich is - even a favourite for us - a cheap infusion of Brahms, sorry, while "Villanelle" is a masterpiece, sorry. And , the op.17, the op.11 & the second concerto, pl

Re: [Hornlist] Bells Up in Opera/Ballet

2006-02-17 Thread LTraxx
I thought this was a funny description: http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/the_orchestra/instruments/horns /effects/ LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40

Re: [Hornlist] 6-Horn Scoring Ranges?

2006-02-17 Thread LTraxx
wow, real composer or a pharmaceutical rep? you be the judge. In the real world getting your diabetic blackouts taken care of, is much more important than what notes horn 5 and 6 play. Why not study the score to Mahler 1? Then if you write something someone has a problem with, you can just blame

Re: [Hornlist] Bells Up in Opera/Ballet

2006-02-17 Thread LTraxx
Beauty?? As in the Rite of Spring? Can the horn not produce required "bad carnal sounds"? Of course Mahler and Tchaikovsky are different. I still wonder why, if not for "eye candy" (sorry don't know the german translation). As far as Butterfly, if I remember right, Campana Alzata is notated at

Re: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread LTraxx
average stuff.??.orchestras all over the world play average stuff every night. Strauss has written only a handful of pieces for the horn, why are these veiled? Are they as horrid as the aforementioned Brahms etudes? Those are in print right? It seems there should be more of a push for these to

RE: [Hornlist] Bells Up in Opera/Ballet

2006-02-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
Where in Madame Buterfly BTW "obsioulsy" is a nice legastenic. So should be "Adamme Tubrefyl". Really, have played the Madame Buterfly for nearly 50 years but never with "campana in alto" & cannot remember where this should be asked for. Could be in the finale act 3 or in the transition betwee

RE: [Hornlist] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
Surely I have heard about these, what do you think ? But they are a curiosity nothing else. Just a big name above average stuff. === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai