[Hornlist] Dietrich again (if you care, otherwise, delete)

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Hirsch
Immediately after my last posting, I took the trouble to look online and found that three quarters of the citations I got lead to Wikipedia or something derived from it. Of course, wiki had basically cribbed from Grove, as one would expect. I did see that Paxman is selling sheet music for the C

RE: [Hornlist] RE: P for high notes

2007-06-24 Thread hans
Valerie, we have heard this from you before. Well, if written "g" on staff was highest you could play with any tone at all after practicing hours a day for years, then something was very wrong from the beginning, o.k., as you said. If the trumpet players method brought you a tool to eliminate this

[Hornlist] Albert Dietrich horn concerto

2007-06-24 Thread phirsch
I just have been listening to a recording of 19th century German cello concerti (Gernsheim, Volkmann, Dietrich and Schumann) and read in the notes that Dietrich composed a horn concerto. I checked Grove and see that he has an opus 27 Concertpiece (Konzertstueck) for horn and an opus 29 Horn concert

[Hornlist] RE: P for high notes

2007-06-24 Thread Valerie WELLS
The overall register from low C (below fourth ledger line below staff) up to a2 & occasionally up to c3 has to be cultivated, not just getting the notes, but getting them in nice quality.> It's not that I'm "crazy about high notes," but when a staff top G is the highest I could play with any t

[Hornlist] horn workshop in Sicily (double post)

2007-06-24 Thread Daniel Canarutto
Hello everybody. The First International Horn Workshop of Italy will take place from 16 to 18 August 2007 at S. Agata di Militello (Sicily), with the partecipation of soloists HANS PIZKA, DALE CLEVENGER and LUCA BENUCCI. THE MASTERCLASS, given by the three soloists, will be free of charge fo

[Hornlist] Re: Metal allergies

2007-06-24 Thread Daniel B. Hrdy
Joyce - that actually sounds like a true allergy, probably to nickel, maybe to some other metals as well (I am speaking here as a former clinical professor of internal medicine). But other people have other symptoms, such as burning or different kinds of rashes that may represent a sensitivity

[Hornlist] Recent updates to hornplayer.net (24th June 2007)

2007-06-24 Thread updates
Updates to hornplayer.net since 8th June 2007: FRENCH HORNS FOR SALE - New adverts Conn 14D - Single F - 450 US $ http://www.hornplayer.net/advert.asp?id=6836 Conn 8D - Full Double - 4000 US $ http://www.hornplayer.net/advert.asp?id=6840 Conn 8D - Full Double - 3000 US $

RE: [Hornlist] Metal allergies

2007-06-24 Thread sheldon kirshner
What strikes me is how many quiet little troubles we have--sometimes in common, sometimes not--in the details of how to get on with an occupation/preoccupation so important to us--our playing, and how helpful, concerned and well meaning so many of the folks on our list are and try to be. Shel ---