The Horn - All Comments

re: The Audition - A Compelling Documentary About The National Council Auditions At The Metropolitan Opera

Raikus — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:56:48 GMT

Not to be confused with Audition - A Creepy Horror Film About The Separation of Limbs with a Piano Wire.

*shivers*

re: The Problem Isn't "Objectionable " Art - It's Orchestras Going Under

kurt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:12:02 GMT

Is there anything we can do on this site to help? We would be willing to put some work into it.

re: We Need Music Education For Adults , Too

kurt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:25:00 GMT

Horn,

I love this idea! I attended a special event as part of my 8th grade class, where Ethel Merman hosted an educational concert performed by the New York Philharmonic. They played several well known classical pieces and Ethel Merman talked about the Opera and Music Theatre. I fell in love with classical music as a result. I appreciate your articles so much because of this one powerful exposure I experienced as a child. I wish I knew more about classical music and find your articles very enjoyable and educational. If you ever have any ideas about exposing people to classical music I would like to help. I can't imagine anyone experiencing a concert and not being moved emotionally and intellectually. Maybe we should post concert locations and times on this site. There may be a way to get that information delivered and posted automatically. I wonder if we could post other educational videos as well. Maybe we could attempt provide a web course 101 on classical music?

Best,

Kurt

re: Some Interesting Current Discussions At The Forum Classicalmusicguide.com

the horn — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:59:51 GMT

Correction : The musicologist who has made controversial claims about the alleged connections between Sibelius and the *** is American,not German.

re: I'm Trying An Experiment Mixing Rachmaninov And Schoenberg For My Classical Music appreciation Class

dziendobry — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:56:26 GMT

I hope you are planning to share the final product, I would love to hear it!

re: Carl Orff's Carmina Burana - Primitive , Lusty And Irresistable

Sorcha — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:30:24 GMT

I don't care if a critic at the time called Orff, 'A rich man's banjo player.' I love banjos. And I find popular music, even suspect popular music, deliciously exhilarating.

re: Operas By American Composers

mcook10128 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:31:02 GMT

Deems Taylor's opera PETER IBBETSON was released in July on the Naxos label, a recording of a concert version conducted by Gerard Schwartz and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 1999. Great! Free libretto downloadable from www.naxos.com.

The CD is also available at Amazon:

www.amazon.com/.../B002AT46D6

re: Playing Assistant Principal Horn - Most Thankless Job In A Symphony Orchestra

willburns1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:01 GMT

thought this website was really interesting. I'm sure you have heard of it but encase you hadn't check this site out. http://www.musopen.com/ has all kinds of free music to play and download.

re: Controversial Young Chinese Pianist Lang Lang

Alexandra — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:20:32 GMT

I saw him last autumn with the NY Philharmonic. I wasn't appalled but I wasn't overly impressed. He seemed fine -- about exactly what you'd expect in a Beethoven piano concerto at Avery Fisher Hall.

re: Happy Belated Birthday To Antonin Dvorak

willburns1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:38:26 GMT

It's funny how peoples minds work when you mentioned Dvorak in your title I of course thought of the Dvorak keyboard layout. HAHA computers on the brain I guess.

re: A Composer Writes Music For Monkeys !

Alexandra — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:24:07 GMT

This is really interesting! I've only seen studies about babies and music. It's fascinating to see that it can affect animals as well -- I never even thought of that.

re: Is The Symphony Orchestra A " Dinosaur " ?

the horn — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:28:14 GMT

Sorry . In the second paragraph that should read "They've had in theior day .

I'm getting sloppy in my old age.

re: Here's An Idea - Cash For Clunkers At Concerts !

Alexandra — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:03:23 GMT

This past winter I had such an annoying experience! I was seeing the NY Phil at Avery Fisher Hall, and in the first movement of a cello concerto, an old lady started slooooooowly unwrapping a cough drop or some kind of sucking candy. I'm not kidding when I say that it went on for most of the first movement. Because the seating there is that angular U-shape, and because she was sitting off to the house right side, it was easy to see her -- right there in the first row, twiddling her candy in her hands. Plenty of people were glaring at her after a while, but she just wouldn't stop. She didn't even take advantage of the break between movements to get it over with -- she began to crinkle the wrapper in the second movement, and then someone finally asked her to be quiet.

Then, during the famous opening notes to Beethoven's Fifth, we could all hear the Lincoln Center construction in the pauses in the music. Jackhammering, no less. I know that construction is a time-sensitive job, but I couldn't help selfishly wishing that they had put the noisy work on hold during the concert.

re: Here's An Idea - Cash For Clunkers At Concerts !

willburns1 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:54:16 GMT

Or maybe they get a free ticket to another performance by someone else. That would be great too. That way you could at least get a chance to see someone else.

re: My Classical Music Program At United Hebrew Geriatric Center

Alexandra — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:24:09 GMT

I love Szymanowski! I worked on a production of King Roger last year and really enjoyed the music. I have a recording of it by Naxos; as well as an EMI recording of Harnasie.

Part of my problem is that I never really know which recordings to buy or take out from the library. There's so much out there.