|
Burned through this thread over the last week or so because my wife told me a week ago that someone in her department at the university was recruiting people for an orchestra, and today I got notice that they have enough people to put one together  Blasting some of my favorite pieces/part for my weapon of choice (French Horn)-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OqV503vUWA- Concerto No.1 in E-Flat Major, R. Strauss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkiSzUqAgM- Concerto No. 8 in C Minor, F. Strauss (though this version is not super-great in my opinion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4g0J3aOqk- Morceau de Concert, Saint-Saens (part 2 is in the sidebar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyK1VKp86M- Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Haydn (the first ~16 minutes) Cool horn parts in orchestra/band pieces maybe later. E: Is there any way to get the forums to not parse pasted Youtube links as [video type="youtube"]uhihbibihbibibb stuff? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jun 5, 2016 |
#
¿
Jun 5, 2016 05:29
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 5, 2024 00:40 |
|
|
Orchestra update: Not only do they want to play all of Beethoven 5, they want me on Horn 1  Fortunately the horn part isn't super-technical, but drat what a way to get back to playing.E: Gonna repost this awesome version of this piece conducted by Carlos Kleiber- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvO3sq_xIIg C-Euro fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jun 19, 2016 |
|
#
¿
Jun 18, 2016 18:53
|
|
|
C-Euro posted:Orchestra update: Not only do they want to play all of Beethoven 5, they want me on Horn 1 Orchestra update: God drat I forgot how much fun I have doing this stuff. We added Marriage of Figaro and Barber of Seville to our rep, which are fun enough. Though on Seville, I have to transpose in E, then switch to G, then go back to E. Rossini you prick  Funny that we're doing both Rossini and Beethoven in the same concert, as Beethoven supposedly hated the gently caress out of Rossini and thought he was a musical hack.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 18, 2016 05:56
|
|
|
Hey what's up Classical music thread the amateur orchestra I'm in picked out its new repertoire for this season and it owns- Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"- Schubert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWnKMzAedK4 Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)- Mendelssohn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcogD-hHEYs Radzetsky Marsch- J. Strauss Sr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eab_eFtTKFs Fun stuff. The first movement of the Schubert is amazing and I'm sad that I had never heard it until now.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 24, 2017 06:16
|
|
|
Doctor Malaver posted:Amateur orchestras can play symphonies? I thought only small ensembles can be amateur. How do you get together 70+ people on enough rehearsals to be good? Or maybe I have a wrong idea of what Amateur means in classical music. "Amateur" as in "none of us are professionals and are just doing this for fun", it's actually a bunch of students/faculty from the medical school in my city who wanted to play some music. It's fun but horribly imbalanced- we have more flutes on our roster than cellos (though we rotate the flute cast each rehearsal so only two or three are there) and I had to conscript a goon's wife to be our only bass player  Small instruments are easier to justify hanging on to for years without playing I guess! For context I play French Horn, though last season we had four of us (which is perfect IMO) and this season we have three which is almost as good.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 24, 2017 18:46
|
|
|
Doctor Malaver posted:Nice. Do you have any recordings? I'd like to compare them against pro orchestras. No because we only have one concert under our belts and also we are not that good. I think my high school orchestra was on the level of this group if not maybe slightly better, but TBF the music program at my alma mater as a whole received national recognition for being really drat good while I was there. We were playing poo poo like Dvorak and Schostakovich while I was there, I remember having to do excerpts from Mahler 5 for my audition.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 24, 2017 22:16
|
|
|
Money Bags posted:I was in marching band because high school orchestras are not a thing where I come from. I'm kinda jealous in fact. I was in marching band, symphonic band, AND orchestra in HS (orchestra only my senior year), it was the best and if you could actually make money as a musician without working 24/7 I'd be doing it. I'm not actually part of the med school here and only heard about this orchestra trying to come together through my wife who is in said school, when she told me about I legit cried because I hadn't played in so long and was just happy to get a chance to play again. I've been lugging this drat horn around without using it for six years, I gotta get some use out of it!
|
|
#
¿
Feb 25, 2017 06:35
|
|
|
Forgot to mention that we picked up another piece for our concert in June: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg, AKA the piece you've heard excerpts from a hundred times but never knew the name- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyM2AnA96yE This might've been the first classical piece I ever heard. Certainly the first one I have clear memory of hearing in music class all the way back in 1st grade(!) E: Our full rep for this concert, if you need stuff to listen to- C-Euro posted:Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"- Schubert C-Euro fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Apr 25, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Apr 25, 2017 03:54
|
|
|
Fellow brass players- any advice on the best way to clean out your slides at home? The tuning slides on my horn look a little gunky so I want to give them a really good cleaning but I'm worried about damaging the pipes by exposing them to the wrong chemical(s).
|
|
#
¿
Apr 26, 2017 02:01
|
|
|
New orchestra season means I get to post our new repertoire- Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVJkkCvdyZo Dvorak Symphony No. 8- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXAv-NGppFw We actually managed to find a tuba player for the Dvorak which rules. We're still lighter on cellos than I'd like to be, also no basses
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2018 01:47
|
|
|
Hawkgirl posted:Oo I just was at a concert today and heard Dvorak 8! Great piece, super fun. You play horn, don't you? Those loud horn trills are real fun once you get em down. I'm playing Horn 1 and yes it's a really fun piece, but I haven't had to do a trill in over a decade so I don't remember how to do them. Time to practice!
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2018 13:23
|
|
|
My orchestra is playing Finlandia for our next concert and how have I, a French horn player, literally never heard this piece before? It loving rules. https://youtu.be/F5zg_af9b8c zenguitarman posted:And here's the man himself conducting the overture to Candide. Overture to Candide is great, we played my junior year of HS (technically the arrangement for concert band) and it was a lot of fun. Also the actual book Candide should be required reading in today's world.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 17, 2018 17:37
|
|
|
New orchestra season get hyyyyyyyype Wagner- Tannhauser Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmCEGHt-Qk Tchaikovesky- Swan Lake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdWzUYEuZI Saint-Saens- Piano Concerto #2 in G Minor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVCvJZtzkqQ This shreds so hard.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 1, 2019 05:06
|
|
|
My orchestra got back together after a semester off and we have a whopping six horns (including me on 1st) signed up. How do I convince our conductor to do Mahler next semester so I can die playing my horn?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 14, 2022 02:40
|
|
|
Playing Scheherazade in my orchestra this season, how have I never actually listened to this before? Piece owns- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4w4_W30aQ
|
|
#
¿
Feb 22, 2023 03:57
|
|
|
Whom amongst uswebcams for christ posted:catch Meistersinger or Tannhäuser at a theater imo. listening to the music is only part of the Gesamtkunstwerk- they were written for the stage, not a concert hall Not an opera guy but my orchestra has played the overtures for both of these and they shred. Tannhauser is notably one of the rare instances where I, a French Horn player, have been genuinely envious of another brass part (when the trombones repeat the opening melody)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GhGuEW4k5w
|
|
#
¿
May 7, 2023 03:26
|
|
|
After playing with my orchestra since 2016, I have to audition for my seat for the first time Not a terribly difficult pair of excerpts but I've coasted on being first chair solely by being the most available for so long...
|
|
#
¿
Aug 28, 2023 14:12
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 5, 2024 00:40 |
|
|
Buttchocks posted:I heard a great performance of Mahler 5 recently. I enjoy listening to Mahler, but it just goes in one ear and out the other. I can't remember a thing about the piece other than I liked it. I couldn't hum a single melody from it to save my life. I'm not even sure Mahler wrote melodies. Bucket list piece for me performance-wise, especially if I managed to sit Horn 1 on it. The top orchestra at my high school had a couple of excerpts from the final movement as their audition requirements. Also speaking of which I just got out of seeing Mahler 1 performed, pretty dope stuff.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2023 04:54
|
|