[Hornlist] test

2008-03-26 Thread LTraxx
Real Juice??? You have to be kidding me Hans. We haven't had real juice in America since...1941? We are so glad that food is still cheap (but very good). As you know things here in America are not so good, we eat cicken, but it taste like fish...and all those bonesack! Well all this

Re: [Hornlist] stopped notes

2008-03-16 Thread LTraxx
A foam cup with a straw through the bottom works great, the tighter the seal between the straw and the bottom of the cup the better. ..and to think the answer to Tchaik 6 was out in the green room next to the coffee maker! LT ___ post:

Re: [Hornlist] musical idiot disgusting arranger.

2007-05-06 Thread LTraxx
Hans you may laugh, but even your beloved Wagner didn't have the horn in mind for the mighty calls in the Ring..He much enjoyed the Alto Beer Can. When just enough beer is consumed the F horn harmonics are perfect and the dragon heads for the hills. Lucky for us, there were few cans back

Re: [Hornlist] Beethoven's 9th

2007-04-05 Thread LTraxx
Vut es dis? Hans talking about weakness and passing the parts to someone else? The same guy who said suck it up and transpose H Horn like everyone else! Is it customary for the first horn to pass off the low solos in Hary Janos or all the low garble that Lizst always writes in the 1st horn

[Hornlist] Messiaen Appel Interstellaire

2007-04-04 Thread LTraxx
Short of plunking down 120 bucks for a full score, does anyone know where I can legally get a copy of this part from Des Canyons aux Etoiles? If the above is impossible please then change the word legally to illegally and then let me know. Thanks LT

Re: [Hornlist] Soloist $

2007-02-19 Thread LTraxx
I don't think the 1500-1800 you mention would be a slap in the face. Of course travel and hotel would be a given. Maybe some beer money too. LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at

[Hornlist] Horn Sections of the Berlin Radio Symphony

2007-01-13 Thread LTraxx
Im interested in a list of horn players who played in the Berlin Radio Orchestra. Perhaps on the Western side of the wall. mainly 60's and 70's. Can anyone help? Much Appreciated LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at

[Hornlist] Siegfried Idyll 2nd horn long note

2006-11-29 Thread LTraxx
OK, thats solved what about the long pedel g in the birds? LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Question excerpts

2006-09-30 Thread LTraxx
Funny you mention the Gumbert. There are some interesting pieces in them. I have to wonder about all the Rubinstien. Has anyone played these pieces? Concerti and symphonies. Seems like today he is all but forgotten. One of the books did introduce me to a great Octet by Sphor. Overshadowed by

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Digest, Vol 45, Issue 30

2006-09-27 Thread LTraxx
Well, I guess if you live in the small world of competitions then I guess the Gliere is gem of a work, for those who have moved on to gigs that pay biweekly, instead of by which color ribbon you get, then we know the truth. Does it bother me that most people would rather listen the a Rachminoff

Re: [Hornlist] This and That

2006-09-26 Thread LTraxx
No, I have never heard his serenade. That would be interesting to hear. Can you find it on record? LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] assistant principals

2006-09-26 Thread LTraxx
I have played both Heldenleben and Mahler 1 without an assistant and it wasn't fun however it is hard to find rest in both of those pieces. Practically everything in the first three movements of the Mahler have to be played by the Principal. There is a series of sustained notes in the last

Re: [Hornlist] This and That

2006-09-25 Thread LTraxx
Did someone just compare the Gliere horn concerto to the Tchaikovsky Piano concerto?? I think horn players think too much of this concerto. I find it just too sappy. There is just no need for that massive first movement of slow tempi and then that slower second movement. I wish I had a dime for

Re: [Hornlist] Basta ?

2006-09-12 Thread LTraxx
Hans Hans Hans. I know what the word means, your understanding is what is lacking here, but that is ok, I only know a few words in your language! Basta means enough..yes yesbut does that apply to you? I don't think you have had enough. I actually have seen a change in your posts and I

Re: [Hornlist] horn digest vol 45 issue 14/ concerningbelligerentposts to Hans

2006-09-12 Thread LTraxx
hans Yes you and others are well equipped to handle this type of problem,but for others they don't even want to be tempted. Like Steve said, the delete button works wonders. You can very well see who the message if from, if you don't like it then don't read it. If you only want to read

Re: [Hornlist] Unwarranted attack onf Prof. Pizka

2006-09-10 Thread LTraxx
Hans Your English fails you. Sarcasm is also a mystery to you. Unless you were the person(s) who sent me the offending emails, then you have nothing to worry about. You have shown coolness under attack (either that or some of my posts go over your head), this is much more impressive than the

Re: [Hornlist] Unwarranted attack onf Prof. Pizka

2006-09-09 Thread LTraxx
I think Hans can take care of himself, he has proven that many a times here. I don't think we need everyone here coming to his defense, it only hurts his ego. I also don't think we need the Anti-Jew emails that two people have sent me. This only proves my point even more. There is a saying we

Re: [Hornlist] Speed of crook changing?

2006-09-07 Thread LTraxx
The KM bong holder works well too. Ive used it several times for some outdoor Pink Floyd shows. LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Fwd: Gail Williams' Geyer STOLEN

2006-09-06 Thread LTraxx
I can see it now, some beginning horn student showing up to 6th grade band class playing Gail's horn. Good Luck LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] das rheingold

2006-09-04 Thread LTraxx
ur..perhaps you all need to read my post again. I was actually complimentary of Hans, I just don't get why he needs to litter this board with his ubertestosterone? I would be lying saying he isn't a welcome addition to these boards, but no one is that good to talk down to an entire race of

Re: [Hornlist] WTC recordings and Back in general.

2006-09-04 Thread LTraxx
So pecky = dead and Vibrant=Living Please elaborate. Thanks LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] das rheingold

2006-09-02 Thread LTraxx
Gee Hans, you can't even take a complement without pulling the ubermench crap. History can't be changed. As much as you like to bash us across the ocean, you can't change the fact that Hitler led your country and he killed millions of innocent kids and that it wasn't until the US got involved,

Re: [Hornlist] das rheingold

2006-08-31 Thread LTraxx
1. Play it in the right rhythm. 2. High f will not be flat then (as usual special under stress) Best comments on these boards in months LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at

[Hornlist] Hummel B minor piano concerto

2006-08-29 Thread LTraxx
Anyone ever play this piece? Second movement is piano and four horns only...very interesting. LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Brahms 2.

2006-08-27 Thread LTraxx
Horn in H is in some ways the easiest of transpositions, because of how the tritone works. Written C is played f# and a written F# is played C. If you are great with tritones then it won't be a problem. I would also suggest playing along with a recording. The first horn part in this movement is

[Hornlist] Wagner Longer Call

2006-08-09 Thread LTraxx
I was noticing an article in groves on Wagner that he originally planned on the Ring being a 5 opera work, ending with Gutterdammercorno or twilight of the horn player. Right after the act 8 aria, there was supposed to be a bolt of lightning that comes out of Funfafnzer's magic staff.

Re: [Hornlist] Wagner Long Call

2006-08-05 Thread LTraxx
So what happens if you don't play the horn call loud enough and you don't vake the dragon? Do you play it again? I can picture a lesson with Hans on this excerpt.. Vake the Dragon VAKE THE DRAGON Your comments are as usual, great to have here Hans, thanks! LT

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Stravinsky 4 Russian Peasant Songs

2006-08-05 Thread LTraxx
Isle of the dead is a toughy, especially if you are depending on the conductor for anything! Two things will help. Saw about 6 inches off the legs of your chair and then raise your stand 4 inches. That should do it! I could never get enough of that thrid horn part at the climax. LT

[Hornlist] Stravinsky 4 Russian Peasant Songs

2006-08-01 Thread LTraxx
I have been reading quite a bit about Stravinsky recently and decided to go back and listen to the columbia recordings. There is an amazing recording of the Four Russian Peasant songs. It is sung by the Gregg Smith singers, but it doesn't list the horn players. Most of the recordings were by

Re: [Hornlist] IHS Cape Town Symposium, Part 2

2006-08-01 Thread LTraxx
So I take it next year is in the states? LMK LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Airline Travel Blues

2006-07-28 Thread LTraxx
I still find it funny when other horn players talk about travel and Ive had the same thing happen to me. Probably the worse is getting a seat right behind first class so that you are last to board.this means that the attendant taking tickets has a clear view of you and your gear. You really

Re: [Hornlist] Wagner Long Call

2006-07-28 Thread LTraxx
would you believe I got this nonesense for 2 bucks per? Thats 20 bucks for the whole shabang. I wonder if this has been corrected in the current version, but then again, who says what Hans said is the truth? and once again Hans misses the sarcasm with the high g trillIf I had said high A

[Hornlist] Wagner Long Call/Franz Strauss

2006-07-27 Thread LTraxx
I just picked up a complete Grove dictionary set..5th edition. I found out some interesting remarks under Richard Strauss. It says that Franz had to re-write the original long call because it was unplayable and that is what we have today.anyone know what the original looked like? Trills up

Re: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-07 Thread LTraxx
Great post, thanks Hans! ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-06 Thread LTraxx
Interesting that most Haydn is B Alto and H Alto while there is plenty of B Basso in the works or Mozart, and I can only think of the two minor keyed symphonies where there is B Alto. Mozart wrote a few symphonies in Bflat...24 and 33 I know..are those in B Alto?..both were written around the

[Hornlist] Haydn/Dorati Horn Players?

2006-07-03 Thread LTraxx
Does anyone have any information on the horn players who played in the Philharmonia Hungarica during all these recordings? They range from the late 60's to early 70's. Truly amazing players. I just picked up the the set with No's 48-59. The Maria Theresia was superb. It would be nice to have a

Re: [Hornlist] post a message

2006-07-03 Thread LTraxx
Might it be translated in the Tuckwell recording liner notes? There is also a website, the name has slipped my memory, that you can type in whatever.the whole German if you need..and it translates it for you. Larry ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu

Re: [Hornlist] Music per se !

2006-02-27 Thread LTraxx
Hans Why so bitter? Can't get over May 1945 yet? We are talking about 13 year old kids discovering Mozart, not about raping anyone's tradition. Sure kids today are not as nieve as they were many years ago, but what's wrong with discovery in the world of music? If you can't play more than an

Re: [Hornlist] my 6-Horn Scoring Solution

2006-02-27 Thread LTraxx
Bear Thanks for the update, but why Shostakovich? Sure he has written a few of the greatest tutti horn passages ever and a few nice Cello concerti, but overall his horn writing is boring. Open up the Alpine Symphony to the pinnacle and see what real horn writing is about! We need not forget

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Transposing

2006-02-26 Thread LTraxx
wow did this thread get blown up. I think the orignal argument was concerning a high schooler who was looking to play the F parts on a Mozart concerto. I don't think anyone is saying that these transposed parts are for anyone who actually gets a paycheck playing the horn. With that said, who

Re: [Hornlist] curious pricing

2006-02-24 Thread LTraxx
simple task of transposing?? Maybe simple to you. Was there once a time when the great Hans, was not so great at transposition? Maybe even a bit scared? I know you would never admit that! I have seen many young students play the heck out of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G...they were too young to

Re: [Hornlist] curious pricing

2006-02-24 Thread LTraxx
yet again it is assumed that the beginning horn student starts out with a private teacherthis is false, maybe in Europe, but not here in the states. Usually a young student picks up the horn on the first day of school and then has to sit next to everyone else in band class and learn to play

Re: [Hornlist] curious pricing

2006-02-24 Thread LTraxx
yes Hans, we do live on different planets, but we agree on one thing, the bottom line is the music! Some will study many many years and never get it. Thanks for the info Larry ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at

Re: [Hornlist] curious pricing

2006-02-23 Thread LTraxx
Do you have to slam everything Hans? I have some news for you, some of us don't count every time we play the long call and don't post it on our website. Believe it or not there are people out there who play the horn for fun, not to defecate all over the great Wolfgang Mozart by using the

[Hornlist] Heiden Horn Concerto?

2006-02-22 Thread LTraxx
I was unaware that Bernard Heiden wrote a concerto for horn. I knew about the Sonata and the chamber music, but didn't know about a concerto. Does anyone know this work? I couldn't even find info in a google search. Thanks Larry ___ post:

Re: [Hornlist] Bells Up in Opera/Ballet

2006-02-18 Thread LTraxx
Hans Thanks for the insight, but I think Stravinsky and subtle sounds don't below in the same sentence...at least not in 1912! So are you telling me that Mahler bell up should be played only off the leg? This is news to me. I can only imagine what you think when you have to perform a new piece

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

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 the

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

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

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] Strauss Horn etudes

2006-02-16 Thread LTraxx
No, I wasn't talking about Brahms or Franz Strauss, I was talking about Richard Strauss. He composed two early horn etuds, one in Eflat and one in E. Im really surprised no one has heard of these. Not even Hans? LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu

Re: [Hornlist] MozartK495, 447 Strauss no.2

2006-02-16 Thread LTraxx
WOW. this is great info. Im going to study the Strauss facsimile a little later, I do have to wonder about all the breath marks in the thrid mvtreh 31...are those available options or did Von Freiberg take them all? LT ___ post:

[Hornlist] Bells Up in Opera/Ballet

2006-02-16 Thread LTraxx
I thought it would be fun to compile a list pieces that use bells up while in the pit..namely in opera and in ballet. I always thought of bells up as a visual affect, obsioulsy some composers though differently. Ill start with a few that Im sure everyone knows Stravinsky Rite Puccini

[Hornlist] Richard Strauss Etudes

2006-02-14 Thread LTraxx
I am in search of some info and even the music to these two early pieces by Richard Strauss. Does anyone have the music to these or and info? Thanks LT ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at

Re: [Hornlist] melody Tchaikovsky 5?

2004-09-15 Thread LTraxx
and how can we forget that huge Mahler rip-off Ill be seeing you.a la mvt 6 of Mahler's 3rd symphony! LT \@() ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] Cel Phone Ringtones

2004-09-04 Thread LTraxx
yeah nothing will get you fired from your orchestra job quicker than your phone going off in a rehearsal to the notes of the long call! It would be hard to blame that one on the bassoon section. Is there an optional missed high C version? LT ___ post:

[Hornlist] Wanted: Budget Natural Horn

2004-08-08 Thread LTraxx
Needed: One Natural horn in E-flat, preferably in tune and close to 440. Any sellers looking to sell cheap? Let me know Thanks L. ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at

Re: [Hornlist] R.Strauss op.11

2004-05-30 Thread LTraxx
Hans Sorry I wasn't up on my euro/dollar conversion rates. Do you take paypal? LMK (let me know) LT ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Re: [Hornlist] R.Strauss op.11

2004-05-29 Thread LTraxx
sorry I didn't know you don't talk to no names, I guess once money is involved its ok? I was going to get Tuckwell to write to you but he was busy. Thanks for the response. Sincerely, No Name ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at