I saw that the John Williams horn concerto was published in a piano reduction today at a music store! Looking at it, I don't think I'll program on my recital anytime soon. Or anytime for that matter! There's a reason it's written for Dale Clevenger.
CHris --- William Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I always thought John Williams in 'E.T.' sounded particularly > > Viennese, even by Hollywood standard which often reveals > > its direct inheritance from late-romanticism > > Jun isn't mishearing this. Still, John Williams is at home in quite > a few idioms other than the Korngold/Puccini style of 30s Hollywood > (like jazz, echoes of Stravinsky in Star Wars, etc.). It seems he > learned this fluency the only way you can -- close exposure to many > styles, and plenty of hard work. His teachers included pianist > Rosina Lhevinne (b. Kiev, concertized throughout Germany and Austria > prior to 1914) and composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (b. Florence), > and Williams did film score orchestrations for Franz Waxman (b. > Koenigshuette/Oberschlesien) and Dimitri Tiomkin (b. St. Petersburg). > > M. C.-T., Waxman, and Tiomkin all wrote grateful music for horns. > Arthur Olaf Andersen (Rhode Island born, but spent study years in > Rome and taught in Berlin until 1908), also tutored the young John > Williams. Andersen not only wrote a Nocturne for Horn and Piano, but > was himself a hornist. According to Lorenzo Sansone, Andersen also > wrote a rather large Horn Method -- in eleven volumes! > > Bill Melton > Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (D) > > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/tedesccj%40yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
