RE: [Hornlist] Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (breathing)

2006-07-15 Thread Hans.Pizka
That´s the usual problematic when arranging the wrong music for the wrong instrument in the wrong range too. Same is Figaro ouverture arranged for brass quintet. Why does the arranger want to decorate himself with the genius´ name ??? The piece is not thought such by the composer. Parts of a Bruc

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Jim Winter

2006-07-13 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Rachel and others, Jim Winter was a man of a vast knowledge not only regarding the horn. It was a great pleasure talking with him. I can say that I was most happy to have Jim Winter as guest in my house many years ago (1989). I miss this distinguished professor very much. To the wagnertubas

RE: [Hornlist] Bible sayings

2006-07-13 Thread Hans.Pizka
Sorry to correct you,John, but as I have stepped back from the principal position a yeasrt ago - and it was the right decision - I might say, that my successor as leader of our horn section, Johannes Dengler, (my alternating first horn since 12+ years) has "licked" the blood & gotten the right tast

RE: [Hornlist] Bible sayings

2006-07-13 Thread Hans.Pizka
"In his wrath, god created the horn" - but it is not from the bible. Emil Wipperich entered it after the solo of the third horn of "Der Waffenschmied" by Albert Lortzing when he saved a performance at the Wuerzburg Stadttheater replacing third horn (the solo is for third horn). He came from the Bay

RE: Early Use of Valves, was Re: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-13 Thread Hans.Pizka
Adminstrators ? Administrators ? They have a certain policy described at "Why doing things in a simple way, if there is a complicate & confusing way ?". That´s their philosophy. But this is a world wide epidemic. Cheers Hans ==

RE: [Hornlist] Alex 103 - history?

2006-07-12 Thread Hans.Pizka
If the valve caps are hand engraved (means deep engraving), the horn should be from that time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Freides Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:17 PM To: 'The Horn List' Subject: [Hornlist] Alex 103 - history?

[Hornlist] Protecting the horn

2006-07-12 Thread Hans.Pizka
On any travel, it is very important to prepare the horn against damage. Thee are the various cases with advantages & disadvantages. But few have thought about preparing the horn against an heavy impact when the case falls down either on the broad side or the smaller side. What happens then ? The he

RE: Early Use of Valves, was Re: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-11 Thread Hans.Pizka
Even I agree with Dr.Ericson, that the valves were intended to make the horn/trumpet & other brass chromatic, I took on the conservative players view of the things, namely using the valves for the quick change of pitch instead changing the crook. Adopting a valve system is the one thing, but develo

RE: [Hornlist] Repair

2006-07-10 Thread Hans.Pizka
That is the usual problem with "modern repair": just buy the spare part & replace it. Any idiot can do it. We are getting the same problem over here in Europe, as the E.U. commisssion abandoned the "master" for most handicrafts , except the security relevant professions handling electricity & gas &

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-10 Thread Hans.Pizka
A fully "chromatic horn" (my use of "horn" is for the instrument, named Horn, corno, cor, lesni rog, valtorn, etc., not in the American meaning og the generalized "horn") is a horn which allows the player to play down from the first octave of the fundamental for one half of an octave (tritonus) wit

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-09 Thread Hans.Pizka
. The Lohengren parts are a result of trying to cover all basses. -Original Message- From: Hans.Pizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'The Horn List' Sent: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:33:27 +0200 Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46 Simon, when they invented the valves, t

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-09 Thread Hans.Pizka
Simon, when they invented the valves, they were intended as a replacement of the various crooks. There were many attempts to invent such a device. But as soon as they had found the solution to there problems, they added two valves first, but the third valve (1 1/2 steps) was added soon. The valves

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn/Dorati Hornists

2006-07-08 Thread Hans.Pizka
The anti-humorous thing is it, that we care most for blending the sound at best, but studio manager, recording technicians, (deaf) conductors, orchestra manager dont care except for the budget. It happen so many times, that (special public TV companies) they show the wrong instruments at the wrong

RE: [Hornlist] Auf dem Strom

2006-07-08 Thread Hans.Pizka
It is also nice transposed down a third, as did famous baritone Hermann Prey, himself a specialist for Schubert lieders. He initiated the "Schubertiade" festival in Feldkirch in Austria. It really sounds nice. Have done it that way with Hermann Prey & also did it in regular E with several sopranos.

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Difficult Etudes

2006-07-07 Thread Hans.Pizka
But you have to chopp it the right way. That´s what I said. Even difficult or boring etudes & exercises should be practised as if they were concert pieces full of nice music. The same happen with contemporanean music. If you treat it the same way as you do for Beethoven or Brahms, you will not like

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-06 Thread Hans.Pizka
According to Viennese tradition, there were no Bb-basso crooks used before W.A.Mozarts "Il Seraglio". And, as said before, the horns in H (B-natural) are just for one single Haydn symphony. H-horn (basso) appeared much later e.g. with G.Verdi, J.Brahms, but they did not think about using a monstr

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-06 Thread Hans.Pizka
It is quite interesting to know, that there were NO B-natural(H)-alto crooks nor were there B-nat.(H) basso crooks ever made. I had quite all types of hand horns but have never seen such crooks, but : O.k. there were no Bb-basso crooks either until the very late Haydn-time, included the adaptors f

RE: [Hornlist] Auf dem Sturm translation

2006-07-05 Thread Hans.Pizka
You should read the title more carefully. Tenor & Soprano are high voices & both would fit both pieces. The Schubert is also avaiulable for Baritone or Mezzosoprano. Even Schubert specialist Hermann Prey did it transposed when I played with him.

RE: [Hornlist] Haydn/Dorati Horn Players?

2006-07-03 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello, it is very helpful to have this list, but one thing is missing: The article should mention a permission by the IHS to reprint it, as there is a copyright also valid for John MacDonald. Just to be correct. Yes, I know that Dr.Christopher C. Leuba played the first horn in many Dorati - Haydn

RE: [Hornlist] Avoiding Difficult Etudes

2006-07-03 Thread Hans.Pizka
One can even play a C-major scale musically & have fun, so it be with etudes. === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Jellison Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:01

RE: [Hornlist] Silver horn - now NHR

2006-07-02 Thread Hans.Pizka
Can you imagine, casting mouthpieces precisely as for these bunch of super curious horn players who even see a difference in the bore of 0,1 mms or less as a catastrophe - or better said as a welcome excuse fortheir own failure ? Or, how to "home bake" new rotors, where even professional drillers h

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - 2

2006-07-02 Thread Hans.Pizka
Klaus, you have to remember the instruments used for Beethovens violin concert were naturalhorns. And a naturalhorn in G speaks so easy & shiny & silvery, that the ppp (at the end of the slow movement) written c2 - c2 - d2 - e2 (played as d2 - d2 - e2 - f#2 - in F-horn terminology) should come extr

RE: [Hornlist] Silver horn

2006-07-02 Thread Hans.Pizka
As most brass repair shops have no experience with sterling silver, I asked my old master horn maker Hermann Ganter. He said, there is no problem fixing lose braces with regular soldering metal. Special soldering metal would only be used, soldering new braces together, while they will be fixed on p

RE: [Hornlist] Web Resources (was Norma - 2)

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
These problems (soft playing along with 2 clarinets as a quartet) is solved by the use of a cone mute mostly ( I would not need that as I can even whisper on the F-side), but the cone a bit lifted. ===

RE: [Hornlist] Playing with good tone while playing with others

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
Yes, exactly, Steve, this is the bad effect of band playing - it is simiöar to play ballet music, just ooompah ooompah ooompah. These short notes do not allow a development of any tone quality & reduce your playing to a mere noise making. It will destroy your practice effort eventually. So be very

RE: [Hornlist] Venice and Prague

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
Both cities are quite poor regarding music shops - as elsewhere. Shops do not stock anything extra from very basic stuff. It is a pity. Be aware of pick-pockets while in Prague Nove Straseci is a very small place but nice area. ===

RE: [Hornlist] Web Resources (was Norma - 2)

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
Thank you, Bill, I got a lot down loaded including the Titl Serenade twice for cello, flute & harpe replacing horn, flute & piano/harpe & the orchestra versionfrom 1902. Have it by my own on very early schellack with (I think) Oscar Hieber & Gustav Kaleve (whom I met on his 90th birthday, when we

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - 2

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
ng off paper, but I have some well lit large computer screens. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus, even you make a good point regarding band music, I doubt if you > really understood my message: > > It is written at the insert

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
t what looks easy in a horn part by the standards of any other instrument, not necessarily is perceived that way by the horn player. Is there any edition of the "Norma"-score available on the web? I have problems reading off paper, but I have some well lit large computer screens. K

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns

2006-07-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
o pairs originally were in different keys, the 1st pair may have had to play the said bars. A later editor may have seen the chance to give the 1st pair a rest, when the 2nd pair by equipment was expected to be able to take over. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PR

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns

2006-06-30 Thread Hans.Pizka
the principal part of each two horn section. -Original Message- From: Hans.Pizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'The Horn List' Sent: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:56:39 +0200 Subject: RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns They are not, be sure. If the orchestra would be a sm

RE: [Hornlist] Sticky Valves?

2006-06-30 Thread Hans.Pizka
You can also fix the bearing plate, by first removing it & setting it in properly (there are marking which must be aligned. To set it right flat, get a thin but strong plastic tube, get it cut flat, put it at the bearing plate so it covers the niple, set the plate in with two light hammer stokes up

RE: [Hornlist] Old Vienna Horn on ebay - ' Very old French horn VIENNAVALVES! "Kalenda Troppau"'

2006-06-30 Thread Hans.Pizka
This horn is a true example of the Viennese horns in the style of Josef Felix Riedl (Vienna), but it is badly damaged & the starting price is really a fantasy price. And it is not a "rotary horn" as it has pumpen-valves. =

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns

2006-06-30 Thread Hans.Pizka
his aria, it could then be performed by a smaller orchestra (2 horns)? Regards, -Michael Henry -- message: 11 date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:54:56 +0200 from: "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> subject: [Hornlist] Norma - horns I played third horn last night for

RE: [Hornlist] Airline-Compliant Case-Holton Millenium Merker

2006-06-30 Thread Hans.Pizka
The dimensions for the on-boad-case are regulated internationally. They are 22 x 16 x 8 inches or 55 x 40 x 20 cms. If the flat case fits into this more or less (bit thicker but also shorter e.g.), nobody might expect any< problem. Non cut bell cases , well, it depends on the tolerance of the check

[Hornlist] Norma - horns

2006-06-30 Thread Hans.Pizka
I played third horn last night for the opera "Norma" (same name as a very successful supermarket chain). Horns 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 are set as pairs in the parts, but there is a spot near the Finale of the 2nd act, where horn 1 & 2 are inserted into the parts 3 & 4, just half notes & full 4/4 held, a ph

RE: [Hornlist] Sticky Valves?

2006-06-29 Thread Hans.Pizka
Check the inside bearing plate, if it is set properly. === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Snapfoo Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 2:08 AM

RE: [Hornlist] Seeking Sheet Music

2006-06-28 Thread Hans.Pizka
Have you tried Billaudot ? I think, they have published it under the care of Michel Garcin-Marrou or Daniel Bourgue. = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [Hornlist] Bumper Cork/Neoprene

2006-06-27 Thread Hans.Pizka
Thanks for the very informing news, but I might point out, that cork get into place easier. Wrap the cork piece (uncut) within a thin towel & use a plastic hammer to hammer it oval carefully. It should slide into the horseshoe easily. Use a thin flat instrumement (cabbaqge, dont fool me about this

RE: [Hornlist] Bumper Cork/Neoprene

2006-06-27 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Rachel, Osmun would have them probably. - For those not much familiar how to change the "corks" (made of cork or neopren), you could find pictures on my Web www.pizka.de/Change-Corks.htm - description of necessary tools, tricks etc. Cork is easier to handle & easier to cut when in place, but

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans:/Mouthpiece/Horn/Tuben

2006-06-24 Thread Hans.Pizka
Rachel, Rachel, <> Why did you play this gig on two borrowed instruments & borrowed mouthpieces, - as a responsible player I would have my mouthpiece with me at least. At an important gig Does not look responsible enough ??? <> Well, I explained allready, how to manage this problem,

RE: [Hornlist] Fingerings in the key of B and A

2006-06-24 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Steve, wouldn´t it be better to ask your teacher to assign you to another piece than Mozarts D-major concerto or many other short pieces first ??? The D-major concerto is not that easy as many teachers might think. Explore the short pieces by Eichborn or other songs first to stabilize the pla

RE: [Hornlist] Answer 2 (Bruckner, Wagnertuba etc.)

2006-06-24 Thread Hans.Pizka
Lawrence, does it matter much at the amateur orchestra, to play these 8 measures on the wagnertuba instead of the horn Isn´t that a bit too much ambition similar to the ambition of an amateur orchestra playing Bruckner no.8. This kind of experiments should be prohibited for amateur groups, as

[Hornlist] Answer 2 (Bruckner, Wagnertuba etc.)

2006-06-24 Thread Hans.Pizka
Dear Rachel, therre is just one single spot in the no.8 Bruckner symphony where the quick change, the two measures (117/118) rest for the 1st Bb-tuba to change to the horn no.5 fot just 8 measures. All the other changes are very easy & within 13 measures rests or more. Movement 2 has just horns, w

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans:/Mouthpiece/Horn/Tuben

2006-06-24 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Rachel, I will get back to your letter in details, but have to correct you strongly this time: THERE IS NO WAGNER TUBA IN THE RIDES OF THE VALKYRIES, sorry. Third act of Valkyre or Walkuere has no Wagnertubas, as they are employed in the acts 1 & 2 only, where horn 5 to 8 have a complete ta

RE: [Hornlist] Clarification

2006-06-23 Thread Hans.Pizka
Does it matter really when using a "spray" horn ?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; horn@music.memphis.edu S

RE: [Hornlist] Multiple Different Mouthpieces-Good or Bad?

2006-06-22 Thread Hans.Pizka
Rachel, you said some very true things, but I do not get the horn & wagnertuba story. Why did you use completely different mouthpieces for the two instruments ? If the rim is "about" the same & just the cup different, why should it ruin the embouchure ? If using two different (size) rims, well, it

RE: [Hornlist] Question

2006-06-22 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello, permanent rhingitis is a real problem for a wind player or everyone. Get this cured by an allergologist as soon as possible, as it will ruin all your practising effort if not cured. Sticking with a piece of music for a long time to perfect it has a very common reason: One is not ready for t

RE: [Hornlist] Rachel, you are so wrong!

2006-06-22 Thread Hans.Pizka
When Mahler asked that, he had just single horns in F or Bb in the orchestras not the modern double horns with much more resounding mass. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mason Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:02 AM To: horn@music.memph

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans:Re:Mahler Seating2

2006-06-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
Did your conductor have a phone conference with Gustav ? Why dont the VPO not use "as many horns as possible on stage" ? These stick weaving idiots ! Well, admitted, there are few good ones left, often to good as persons also, so not to make a career. ===

RE: [Hornlist] Intonation - how does this recording sound to you?

2006-06-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
Steve, this is a bad example. For me everything is just out of tune, some notes too sharp others too low. It does not sound as a group from VPO. Well, but this is a very old recording. = -Original Message

RE: [Hornlist] Brahms symphony no. 4 with Wiener Phil./Kleiber

2006-06-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
Thank you, Anthony, for the CD. I just listened to it, following the first horn part. You are right absolutely. The high b-natural (written upbeat c2 for E-horn) is one octave higher. It can be heard clearly, and it is the horn & no overtones or trumpet. It is the typical sound of the Viennese when

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans/Brandenburg/Environment

2006-06-20 Thread Hans.Pizka
e better-I'd like to hear other stories about hornists doing other and more difficult music. >from: "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Nobody here plays Brandenburg 1 or the Quoniam on a double >horn. The sound is too heavy. Sorry Hans, Phil DID say: "

RE: [Hornlist] Brahms symphony no. 4 with Wiener Phil./Kleiber

2006-06-20 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Adrian, while I still have to listen to the recording, I checked with the parts & found that horn 2 & horn 1 enter here unison (up beat to the fifth measure after rehearsal mark "Q" or the 44th measure bevor the end of the 1st mov. Or to measure 398) with written c2 for horn in E, a synkope o

[Hornlist] mouthpieces

2006-06-20 Thread Hans.Pizka
Just an information: please inquire privately My mouth piece is available now again silver plated or gold plated (just a limited number). Also two of my double horns are ready for shipment. Have tested them in actual performances the last two weeks. The two discovered pieces for two horns in E &

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans/Brandenburg/Environment

2006-06-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Rachel, you generalize too much & even you have played a lot your aspect is different to the real pro. Pro means full time professional, full season (not just several months a year. Pro means, making a living by music making as main income. Playing all kind of music on just one instrument is poss

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans/Brandenburg/Environment

2006-06-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Sorry, Adrian, it reads: "Quoniam tu solus sanctus altissimus Deus ", which has been abused by a certain trumpet player from Dresden to read the music in D alto, regardless the musical content. You forgot the letter "c" in "sanctus".

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Just an odd observation

2006-06-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
That´s the Beethoven Sonata ! === -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:19 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Re: Just an odd observation You didn't

RE: [Hornlist] For Hans/Section Seating

2006-06-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
-they were about 6 feet to the right of the 4th horn. from: "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >it is INSANE to have the timpani in the back of the horns Despite all attempts to convince the director, we are unable to change this in one group I play in. They have the horns poin

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Section Seating

2006-06-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
the musicianship of the orchestra, but he does not understand the unique problems of hornists - of course, he is not alone, so we need to be somewhat forceful in pointing out the realities. Fred On 6/19/06, Hans.Pizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exactly, that is the feeling, but most stic

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Section Seating

2006-06-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Exactly, that is the feeling, but most stick weavers cannot understand it. Or they do not want to understand it. = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [Hornlist] At least it isn't Rap

2006-06-18 Thread Hans.Pizka
This horn looks excellent. It seems to be from Marcel-Auguste Raoux (died 1871), thus around 140-150 years old & is in fantastic condition, worth more than 5.000 anyway. And equipped completely. If I were much younger, I would buy it to play it. Just spending the money to have it laying around, not

RE: [Hornlist] Brahms symphony no. 4 with Wiener Phil./Kleiber

2006-06-18 Thread Hans.Pizka
Kleiber would never have done any such alterations nor would the philharmonic hornplayers have done it. I probably knew Carlos Kleiber better than any other horn player, having (just) played Rosenkavalier over 90times under his baton, plus many Othellos, Madame Buterfly, La Boheme, Fledermaus, Woyz

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Bruckner 4 Urfassung

2006-06-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
Sorry, Chris, this would never sound impressive for the audience, as it would be missed or near missed manytimes. The impression would be just for horn players, but it would cost the horn player in question a lot of nerves. The story was with Schantl, but not in a rehearsal (that´s a myth only)), j

RE: [Hornlist] Bruckner 4

2006-06-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
that register. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I own a wonderful TV recording of Bruckner no.4 with Roland Berger > playing first & Rafael Kubelik conducting. > > Does anybody know the "Urfassung" ? We just play

RE: [Hornlist] Bruckner 4

2006-06-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
I own a wonderful TV recording of Bruckner no.4 with Roland Berger playing first & Rafael Kubelik conducting. Does anybody know the "Urfassung" ? We just played it severaltimes & will do it on our European tour late September & early October. First horn is very busy. The symphony is completely dif

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Section Seating

2006-06-17 Thread Hans.Pizka
Once again I repeat here: it is INSANE to have the timpani in the back of the horns, as the timpani sound will tilt the horns sound. You can blow & blow & blow, but nothing is to be heard except if the timpani have rests. The same happen for both sides, if the trombones sit in the back of the horns

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Embouchure Question first, and difficult Romantic music second.

2006-06-15 Thread Hans.Pizka
Sorry, Matthew, the original questioner said, he practised the Trio from Brandenburg 1 & the Quoniam & felt difficulties. The two pieces will never be put on a program together except by some insane concert planner. Missa in B-minor is too long allready. And, just for the Missa: one does not sit al

RE: [Hornlist] re: embouchure question

2006-06-15 Thread Hans.Pizka
The Schumann is high, really high, but has a lot in the middle range where one can regain strength. Extreme is just the prelast page, where the first horn goes up to d3 & e3 (2nd half of the page). But here is it best, to play a lot on the F-side to have the "turbo gear" (tumb valve) to swith the h

RE: [Hornlist] re: embouchure question

2006-06-14 Thread Hans.Pizka
Nobody here plays Brandenburg 1 or the Quoniam on a double horn. The sound is too heavy. Yes, you can practice & play the Quoniam on a single F, if you know how to play LIGHT. It is not a "Tooo-teee-taaa-t-to"-"blast". It is just a bit ornamentation, filigran. So is the Brandenburg Concert

RE: [Hornlist] Look out, hornboy!

2006-06-14 Thread Hans.Pizka
What is a "metrognome" ? Is it a dwarf in the metro ? I know only "METRONOME". But it is a nice, very nice typo. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Hornlist] Horn Section Seating

2006-06-13 Thread Hans.Pizka
Horns should not point verse the audience and first horn should sit left from the second & third left from fourth. Using your terminology a & b it should be like: conductor -1b1a2a2b-- -3b3a4a4b-- It will enable the core quartet to hear each oth

RE: [Hornlist] re: Baumann warm-ups

2006-06-08 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello friends, when did you both approach Hermann Baumann ? You should consider that he was terribly ill after his stroke some 15 years ago and he is 72 now. One should understand, that everybody gets tired sometimes.

RE: [Hornlist] Metal Allergies

2006-06-08 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Karon, brass contains no nickel, but special brass as Neusilber (=alpacca, white metal) as often used for mouthpieces and for some parts of the horn contains nickel. Hand contact from the horn to the lip might not be the cause of your allergy, but the lip contact with the inside of the cup or

RE: [Hornlist] The Care and Feeding of a Used Horn

2006-06-07 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Steve, there is an old methode to get a stuck slide out: put a few drops of thin oil at the edge of the shanks. Use a lighter & heat the shanks just a bit but move the lighter so the fire cannot damage the lacquer. By the heat, the oil crouches into the shanks & gets them lose. Get all slides

RE: [Hornlist] Compiled Post: Orchestra Pranks: MyOpinionsfor Everyone

2006-06-04 Thread Hans.Pizka
Last time I played under his baton was Bruckner no.9 in Madrid four days after von Karajans last concert (Bruckner no.9, where I replaced ill Friedrich Pfeiffer of VPO in the Musikverein Saal, April 23rd 1989 11:00 AM), had Madame Buterfly the same evening in Munich, flew to Budapest next morning

RE: [Hornlist] Compiled Post: Orchestra Pranks: My Opinionsfor Everyone

2006-06-03 Thread Hans.Pizka
Sorry, was not VPO but VSO (Vienna Symphony). As far as I know, Woess did not conduct Vienna Phil. But he was good for Viennese music, Wagner, Bruckner, Beethoven. He himself began as 2nd violin. Thee is another story of him, when he was in Tokyo as MD of the NHK symphony (Radio Symphony). He had s

RE: [Hornlist] Compiled Post: Orchestra Pranks: My Opinions for Everyone

2006-06-02 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Rachel, quite nice stories, but as these happen in orchestras, I would question their professionality or regard them as immature youth perhaps. Things like that are not to happen in the top orchestras, sorry. But we frequently make the conductors laugh, when they give the downbeat at the beg

RE: [Hornlist] Clevenger: For Hans Pizka

2006-06-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
No, this is not the method. It should better read "Adjust to your environment !" , as Josef Schantl told the young Karl Stiegler, then solohorn in Wiesbaden: "Think allways about the room & its acoustic, where you are playing !". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

[Hornlist] Why do some horn players tune the slides differently

2006-06-01 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hornplayers & other musicians tend to develop a certain habit & get fixed on that. What has that to do with the slides ? Yes, it has to do with this, as hornplayers get used to their lipping up or down according to their first instrument & when they have not developed the right skill either to hit

RE: [Hornlist] Mute intonation

2006-05-31 Thread Hans.Pizka
By pulling the tuning slide out a bit as soon as you need the mute to be put in. A modern (cone) mute should have an adjustment screw to move the inner part up or down. There is another way: just pull the cone mute out a bit while playing & hold it. Gives you the same mute character, tone productio

RE: [Hornlist] Re: VPO Horns

2006-05-25 Thread Hans.Pizka
I possess a letter by Josef Schantl, written to the young Karl Stiegler, when he was at his very first big engagement, at the royal state theatre in Wiesbaden: "Allways consider WHAT you are playing & WHERE, adjust volume, tonquality (he meant density, carrying power, color) to the composition AND

RE: [Hornlist] pitch

2006-05-25 Thread Hans.Pizka
There is also the "acquired perfect pitch", means the "a" is fix stored in the memory. There is a lot of education involved. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Wester Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:24 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subje

RE: [Hornlist] Orchestra Pranks

2006-05-24 Thread Hans.Pizka
When I was a student in Vienna, i rehearsed the Tschaikovsky piano concert with the horn entrance in E-flat. But I got ill & had to stay in hospital suddenly after the dress rehearsal. So the called a replacement for me, who started the piece in F instead of E-flat. Or, we had an extra player to r

RE: [Hornlist] Who knows this poem

2006-05-23 Thread Hans.Pizka
I'm pretty sure I know who "Mozardus" is, but who is the rogator Romanus? Emory Waters -Original Message- From: Hans.Pizka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'The Horn List' Sent: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:51:17 +0200 Subject: [Hornlist] Who knows this poem Omnis tu

RE: [Hornlist] Ear training for musical disasters

2006-05-22 Thread Hans.Pizka
Mastersinger Ouverture & Thriumph March from Aida (transposed off course) match very well together as proved by the late Giuseppe Patane (conductor & pianist) who played that for us on the piano many years ago. ===

[Hornlist] Who knows this poem

2006-05-22 Thread Hans.Pizka
Omnis tulit punctum Punto, cui Musa bohemia Ut plausit vivo, sic moriente gemit Muta rogatoris romani puncta minora Mozardi punctis. Hicse rogatur honor Please, Paul, let the others answer. I know, you know it. ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscr

[Hornlist] Something to share with you

2006-05-22 Thread Hans.Pizka
The great artist (theatre) Angelo Neumann (1838-1910) wrote in his memories: " When Wagner conducted Beethovens ´Eroica´ in Vienna, horn virtuoso Levy committed a clam during the delicate Scherzo, As the humorist (writer) Mauthner, sitting in the first row, started laughing because of the

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2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
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RE: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
We once had a prior famous Italian/Argentinian guest maestro for a Verdi opera performance at the Munich National Theatre. He was very poor until the intermission & being boooed at the end. So he sneeked into the pit before dark for the econd act, jumped up when lights were turned off. So the audie

RE: [Hornlist] Franck Symphony; for Lawrence Yates

2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
It is done in the German language, so I have to apologize as I adopted it mistakingly too often in my English letters. H.Pizka = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

[Hornlist] Conductors, theory,music, etc

2006-05-21 Thread Hans.Pizka
What will you do, if you have a conductor in front, who knows everything about a certain big piece and leads the piece following every flydropping in the score like it were the "Holy Evangelium", but has not 1/1000th percent of charisma & taste ? Who is a fleshless, temperamentless superbly studied

RE: [Hornlist] Ear Training For Crying Out Loud!

2006-05-20 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Rachel, this is really important, but more, it is important to know that playing in pitch is a "floating task". Why ? Our brass instruments, also the woodwinds are not tuned in a "metric" system but an "acoustical" system where the halfsteps are not equal. So we have to listen with whom we a

RE: [Hornlist] Mid-range tonguing reverb problem

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Find a clean point for the (tongue) attack. Attack with a rather pointed tongue. Play with a saliva-clean tongue. Do not stretch the tongue forward between the front teeth when attacking. Think different when attacking: not as hammering the notes out with the tongue, but releasing them (valve syste

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Ear Training

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Chord in the staff, a full score, whatever. Needs a lot of experience, off course, score-reading experience. Does not work with most contemp works. -Original Message- From: [E

RE: [Hornlist] accentare ogni nota?

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
An accent on every note ! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Syslo Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:32 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] accentare ogni nota? Charles Chaynes 15 Etudes for horn #VIII accentare ogni nota What

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Ear Training

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
I instantly hear the sound, the complete sound. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:31 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Re: Ear Training Hans, When you see the note, are yo

RE: [Hornlist] Lacher - Salve mundi Domina

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Hello Klaus & others, Thanks for transmitting the pdf file of that piece. I tried hard to understand the horn part & how it would make sense to play it with hand horn, as a valved horn did not exist that time, well, there was an exception: the invention by Dickhuth with the easy extendable tuning

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Ear Training

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
You have no time to do this during a performance. The best way to get along with this: Try out a horn, correct things if slide adjusting will do it. Remember the other sharp or flat notes (should remain equal sharp or flat at the step created by the valve(s) - as just the whole horn is shifted down

RE: [Hornlist] RE: College Ear Training & Sight Singing

2006-05-19 Thread Hans.Pizka
Yes, Kendall, I second your opinion. Here in Germany, they had a new survey about schools & school results. They were katastrophic. They rank last in Europe & were first just one generation ago. And the politicians are the same low level & rather demagogues than deputies of the people. Well, they r

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