[Hornlist] re: Kathleen Wilbur

2009-07-27 Thread Punto
Chris, I believe I read an obituary for her in Allegro, the Local 802 newspaper, a few months back. I hope my memory is wrong. I will go and check the 802 online archives and update afterwards. There are plenty of folk in NYC who worked with her or studied with her (and some who knew

[Hornlist] Wilber obit

2009-07-27 Thread Punto
I probably should have waited before sending my previous message. I just located Kathleen Wilber's obituary and am enclosing a link. I am pretty sure that this is in a public area of the 802 website and should take you to the publications area. If you select obituaries and then go to December

[Hornlist] Correction to Marshall Brain discography

2009-07-13 Thread Punto
On page 15 of the Marshall, there is a listing for the Mozart concerto no. 3, with Brain accompanied by the Nord Deutsches Rundfunk (NDR - and I'm no doubt sure to hear from Hans my unconscionable mangling of the full name which I am totally winging from memory) and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt.

Re: [Hornlist] OT: solo beginnings

2009-06-28 Thread Punto
Franz Schmidt 4th Symphony - the trumpet plays a quasi-tonal 12 note theme at the beginning which reappears in the horn later in the movement. An overlooked late romantic monument that should satisfy and Mahler or Strauss addict. Peter Hirsch message: 18 date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:41:13 -0700

[Hornlist] 1967 Bayreuth horn soloist

2009-01-11 Thread Punto
I am in the midst of listening to the recording of the Bayreuth Ring under Boehm, apparently (no indication in the booklet, but ArkivMusic says) made live at the 1967 festival and wonder who was the player doing the long call. I don't know what kind of editing might have been done, but this is

[Hornlist] RE: The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane.

2008-11-27 Thread Punto
David, Just quoting that infallible source of information, wickedpaedia. I agree that it makes much more sense your way. Peter HIRSCH believe Peter Hirsh got this backwards. Fire and Fleet is the original that later became corrupted owing to a misunderstanding about the F which was taken

[Hornlist] RE: The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane. (2)

2008-11-27 Thread Punto
Richard, Interestingly (at least to me), I would not be at all aware of the definition of Leiche, except for having read some years ago about the early horn maker(s) named Leichnambschnieder (Michael, Johannes and Johannes, II) mentioned, among other places, in Horace Fitzpatrick's book on

[Hornlist] amended - Looking to buy old Horn Call issues

2008-10-12 Thread Punto
in print format. Peter here goes nothing Hirsch date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:49:05 -0400 from: Punto [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: [Hornlist] Looking to buy old Horn Call issues Thought I'd throw out this request, longshot that it may be. A few of my copies of The Horn Call seem to be missing

[Hornlist] Looking to buy old Horn Call issues

2008-10-11 Thread Punto
Thought I'd throw out this request, longshot that it may be. A few of my copies of The Horn Call seem to be missing or are deteriorating photocopies and I wouldn't mind replacing them if anyone happens to have any of them that they would be willing to part with for $. What I need: Vol. 3,

[Hornlist] Re: Horn Digest, Vol 69, Issue 13

2008-09-14 Thread Punto
Message - From: Punto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: horn@music.memphis.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:15 PM Subject: [Hornlist] re: Sandy Siegelstein and Junior Collins Martin, Over the years, I have done a lot of digging in the area of horn players who recorded

[Hornlist] re: Sandy Siegelstein and Junior Collins

2008-09-13 Thread Punto
Martin, Over the years, I have done a lot of digging in the area of horn players who recorded with jazz groups and have a bit of of info on Collins and Siegelstein's activities. According to the Tom Lord Jazz Discography CD-ROM, Siegelstein worked with and appears on recordings (around 30 of

[Hornlist] Bob Sharples

2008-06-08 Thread Punto
I just purchased a two CD set on Dutton Vocalion a few weeks ago that has two schmatlzy track Will you remember and (I don't remember). THa Brain plays on/ Unfortunate;y. I moved all of my recordings into a heap and covered them with dropcloths in anticipation of the painter coming last week

[Hornlist] John Williams Horn Concerto

2008-05-25 Thread Punto
Ron, No one seemed to answer your question directly, so I'll state: No, there is no recording, though I would expect that one ought to appear before long. Same for the Elliott Carter (which will be getting additional hearings at Tanglewood this summer) . They both have been performed by

[Hornlist] Phantom Stagliano LP

2008-04-06 Thread Punto
I have just been browsing through the Summer 1959 Long Player classical record catalog (including stereo records[!]). Before you point out that I really ought to get a life, I will save you all the trouble by acknowledging my obsession when it comes down to tracking the wild horn recording

[Hornlist] Jerome Ahby

2007-12-28 Thread Punto
I just read in the paper that Jerry died two days ago. I am still in shock, but I wanted to pass this on to our community without delay. I knew that he had struggled with prostate cancer for quite some time now, but had heard that he was back in the Philharmonic playing a month or so ago, so

[Hornlist] Elliott Carter Horn Concerto

2007-11-17 Thread Punto
Richard, I was not, despite my best intentions, able to remember to get tickets and drive up from NYC to be present this epochal event. I dug up the following links that give some info about the piece and the premiere.

[Hornlist] Fritz Reiner recording of Brandenburg 1

2007-11-07 Thread Punto
I recently got my hands on a Columbia recording (ML 4281/2/3) with Reiner conducting Soloists and Chamber Group. All the soloists are named - except the horns! Most of the names credited on the sleeve that I do recognize played in the NY Phil at some point, but it does not look like this is

[Hornlist] Berlin Phil Horns live in NY Nov. 12

2007-11-02 Thread Punto
I just heard from my fellow hornist, Adam Katin, that this concert is happening. If you are situated within a few hundred miles of NYC, you should make a point of being there. Three of the selections from their CD Opera are on the program and the acoustics of St. John the Divine are supremely

[Hornlist] Culley

2007-10-27 Thread Punto
Bob (and whomever might be remotely interested), Somewhere in my collection of recordings, I have a cassette that has a track that I recorded while I was working part time at the Institute for Jazz Studies (Rutgers, Newark) that has a Wendell Culley playing a pop tune called Young man with a

[Hornlist] Re: duplicate posts

2007-09-10 Thread Punto
First, I must wholeheartedly second Ellen and raise her a Franklin. Dan has let me know, off-list, the error of my ways many times, sparing me the embarrassment of further revealing my ignorance of just about everything list related (and sometimes totally unrelated) the my friends on the list.

[Hornlist] Interesting Brahms Trio release

2007-07-20 Thread Punto
I have just received, though I have not played yet, a CD of Aubrey Brain with (Rudolf) Serkin and Adolf Busch doing the Brahms (Appian APR 5528) that is essentially a compilation of test pressings from a runthrough session that preceded the famous EMI recording that everyone has (you do have a