Made some excellent progress on the opening of Daily routines with a buzzing pattern- thanks to Bruce.
Got a good warm up and some practice in. Still aiming to get more time on the horn.
Monday, January 17, 2011
sunday, January 16th
got a good warm up in before my meeting at the bookstore.
Practiced a bit on the natural horn- trying to decide between Moscheles and Nisle for an upcoming event. Also practiced some of the excerpts I did for Mr. Leuba and Mr. Cerminaro. Working on memorizing the b minor mass part.
Practiced a bit on the natural horn- trying to decide between Moscheles and Nisle for an upcoming event. Also practiced some of the excerpts I did for Mr. Leuba and Mr. Cerminaro. Working on memorizing the b minor mass part.
Saturday January 15th
This was a travel day and flew by literally and figuratively. Only a minimal amount of warming up....
Friday, January 14, 2011
Friday 1-14-11
Today is my last full day in Seattle and my coaching with Mr. Cerminaro. He is a former principal horn with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and presently plays principal with the Seattle Symphony. He is an outstanding musician and has had an illustrious career. I am priviliged he has agreed to work with me today.
Ruth will be working at her office and her studio today. She is a massage therapist (http://wallingfordmassagestudio.net/) and a print artist (http://web.mac.com/rihesse/Ruth_Hesse_Monotype_Prints/Home.html)
Ruth will be working at her office and her studio today. She is a massage therapist (http://wallingfordmassagestudio.net/) and a print artist (http://web.mac.com/rihesse/Ruth_Hesse_Monotype_Prints/Home.html)
Seattle
Day one was a travel day to Seattle. I was able to get a ride to the airport with Bruce and had a great flight- no problems with weather!!
Day 4 Thursday
Today my sister and I had the day together- I had a short warm up and then we took stuff to her NEW STUDIO in Magnolia. (http://web.mac.com/rihesse/Ruth_Hesse_Monotype_Prints/Home.html)
I heard from Mr. Cerminaro and we are doing a coaching at his house on Friday. It is close to Ruth's studio, so we will rent a ZIP Car again and she will drive me over and do some work at her studio while I am playing the horn.
Thursday is sushi night with Ruth's friends, David and Brian. Brian teaches music, and is a horn player himself, at North Seattle Community College. They are both really nice guys. (https://northseattle.edu/programs/music)
I have gotten a little bit done on part of the Duet portion of Daily Routines for the Horn Player, to be published by Moutain Peak Music.
http://www.mountainpeakmusic.com/
I heard from Mr. Cerminaro and we are doing a coaching at his house on Friday. It is close to Ruth's studio, so we will rent a ZIP Car again and she will drive me over and do some work at her studio while I am playing the horn.
Thursday is sushi night with Ruth's friends, David and Brian. Brian teaches music, and is a horn player himself, at North Seattle Community College. They are both really nice guys. (https://northseattle.edu/programs/music)
I have gotten a little bit done on part of the Duet portion of Daily Routines for the Horn Player, to be published by Moutain Peak Music.
http://www.mountainpeakmusic.com/
1-12-11 Wednesday
A much less interesting date after the fun of 1-11-11. Today I did a nice warm up at my sister's house in Wallingford. The strangest thing happened when first one neighborhood cat and then another came and sat on the porch- while I was practicing. Normally cats who don't live with brass players run the other way. It was quite cute and I did take a photo.
Chris L. came over at 3 pm and we had an hour and a half coaching.
I played:
Bach B minor mass ( I have a February performance...)
Beethoven Fidelio Overture horn 2
Beethoven Symphony #9 Horn 4
Beethoven Symphony #3 horn 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5 horn 1 solo
Shostakovich low call horn 2
Mahler Symphony #1 the low horn tune
We then had a nice Italian meal at the tiniest place, Da Pino. (http://cafedapino.com/) Quite good- I had ravioli and pesto sauce and Chris had ravioli with beet pesto. We each had a glass of montepulcianno wine and he had tiramisu for dessert, while I have triple chocolate cake.
It was a pleasure to work with my old teacher and I plan to see him again later in the Spring.
At this point I am reading Bill Bryson's a short history of almost everything and recommending to everyone. Chris is planning on getting it today.
Chris L. came over at 3 pm and we had an hour and a half coaching.
I played:
Bach B minor mass ( I have a February performance...)
Beethoven Fidelio Overture horn 2
Beethoven Symphony #9 Horn 4
Beethoven Symphony #3 horn 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5 horn 1 solo
Shostakovich low call horn 2
Mahler Symphony #1 the low horn tune
We then had a nice Italian meal at the tiniest place, Da Pino. (http://cafedapino.com/) Quite good- I had ravioli and pesto sauce and Chris had ravioli with beet pesto. We each had a glass of montepulcianno wine and he had tiramisu for dessert, while I have triple chocolate cake.
It was a pleasure to work with my old teacher and I plan to see him again later in the Spring.
At this point I am reading Bill Bryson's a short history of almost everything and recommending to everyone. Chris is planning on getting it today.
January 11:1-11-11
Day two here in Seattle mostly involved trying to learn how to work the Zoom recorder. One of the important things in working on excerpts is knowing how you sound, by listening when you are not actively involved in playing. It makes everything much clearer. Initially, the Zoom had an auto-metronome going- which I could only hear on playback. As that was 100% completely unhelpful, I had to go back to the manual and determine how to turn it off. I think I've got it now.
My coaching with Chris Leuba is Wednesday at 3 pm and then we will have dinner.
The biggest news about today is that it snowed a bunch in Seattle.
Ruth and I saw Black Swan, which neither of us were especially crazy about.
My coaching with Chris Leuba is Wednesday at 3 pm and then we will have dinner.
The biggest news about today is that it snowed a bunch in Seattle.
Ruth and I saw Black Swan, which neither of us were especially crazy about.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Horn Travels
Day 1
Though classes ended the first week of December, the feeling of being on sabbatical didn't actually start until the first day of classes of this semester. Everyone else went back to school and started teaching. You would think this would only be cause for great glee, but I will actually miss all of my students. There was a moment where I thought we might have a snow day in Colorado and everyone would have the day off- then I would not feel as privileged to be on sabbatical.
What is my project? in the shortest way of phrasing it, my project is to practice the horn. Don't I do that all of the time? to a degree, yes. But teaching a full load at a University with it's myriad committees and meeting and responsibilities, severely limits the amount of practice time.
It takes a good deal of actual time on the horn to maintain one's embouchure in the kind of shape it needs to be to sound like a professional musician.
Though classes ended the first week of December, the feeling of being on sabbatical didn't actually start until the first day of classes of this semester. Everyone else went back to school and started teaching. You would think this would only be cause for great glee, but I will actually miss all of my students. There was a moment where I thought we might have a snow day in Colorado and everyone would have the day off- then I would not feel as privileged to be on sabbatical.
What is my project? in the shortest way of phrasing it, my project is to practice the horn. Don't I do that all of the time? to a degree, yes. But teaching a full load at a University with it's myriad committees and meeting and responsibilities, severely limits the amount of practice time.
It takes a good deal of actual time on the horn to maintain one's embouchure in the kind of shape it needs to be to sound like a professional musician.
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