UL Horns Go International, day 4- Wednesday

Click on the blog entry title above to go to the Symposium program booklet for Wednesday

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Marcia Spence, with Simon Sargon at the piano

composer Simon Sargon

the Illinois State University Horn Choir, conducted by Joe Neisler

The Illinois State University Horn Choir, conducted by Joe Neisler

Bruce Atwell performs les Parcs de Paris

Naomi Seidman, Jennifer Ratchford-Sholtis, and Jason Aquila

composer Walter Mays, Nicholas Smith, and Hyung Gu Kim

Nicholas Smith and Hyung Gu Kim

Doug Lundeen plays Rossini's Prelude, Theme & Variations

John B., Bruce, and Mary came with me to buy sheet music. Lots and lots of sheet music!

The University of Missouri Horn Choir

Bill Klingelhoffer and Jason Aquila

Andrew Pelletier

The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse

Audrey Wood and Paul Blackstone

The Four Hornsmen, backed by the Symposium Horn Choir

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This morning I enjoyed a lecture demo with Marcia Spence and Simon Sargon. I'll be doing some of Sargon's A Clear Midnight with Shawn Roy and Chan Kiat soon!

We had our first horn choir rehearsal, and we'll rehearse two more times between now and our performance Saturday afternoon.

The afternoon concert featured modern works, and Rossini T&V.

This afternoon, money was spent on sheet music- lots of money!

The evening concert featured Anrew Pelletier as the star of the show!
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UL Horns Go International, day 3

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Waiting for the opening concert to begin

Our host, Randy Faust

Our president, Jeff Snedeker

The Symposium Horn Choir

Ensemble masterclass with Rick Todd. Rising ULL freshman Daniel Terrebonne is in the driver's seat!!!

Shawnee, TAMUK student, and Daniel in the Rick Todd Masterclass

Jacob Medlin and his fine horns! C'mon, Jacob, make a Kruspe wrap!!!

Stuart de Haro and his fine horns.

My friends John K., John B., and Mary at chinese family-style

Greg Hustis performs "Voices from Spoon River"

The Four Hornsmen!

Mary and Bruce at the pub. The ONE and ONLY pub in Macomb.

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Today was the opening day for the Symposium. Our host, Randall Faust, gave introductions and tributes, and led the WIU Horn Choir in a few tunes. The president of IHS, Jeff Snedeker, added tributes and thank-yous.

Our rising freshman, Daniel Terrebonne, jumped into the driver's seat for the ensemble masterclass led by Rick Todd, horn prof at USC and movie score hornist!

Up-and-coming horn craftsmen Jacob Medlin and Stuart de Haro are here-- I'm enjoying my Medlin "practice pipe!"

We enjoyed performances by Paul Basler, and Laurence Lowe.

Dinner was chinese family style! But slow, we missed the downbeat of the evening concert!

Wonderful evening concert with Jenny Dugle Kummer and Greg Hustis, and we found a pub with Blue Moon on tap!
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Day 2: Alex Caught a Roll!

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UL Horn Studio goes International Day 2

Just off the interstate, we stopped at the place we'd all heard of--

Kyle ordered "The Rooster," thinking he was actually going to be eating a rooster, not a larger portion of chicken! :-P

Heading into St. Louis

Our second travel day saw us running to Ion Balu's to load up an "opening day's" supply of mutes-- U of M's Kyle Hayes will man the table Tuesday while Ion works feverishly in Memphis to finish more mutes!

From Memphis we took I-55 into Arkansas, on to Missouri and right to famous Lambert's Cafe, home of the "throwed rolls!" The guys caught some long ones!

On to St. Louis, where we ran into traffic downtown, right under the arch!

Past St. Louis was the most challenging part of the drive, a mostly two-lane road for 4 hours! But we arrived in Macomb, happy to be here and excited for the Symposium!
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UL Horns go International! Day 1

Alicia did a great job driving the big van!

Single-letter 8D! Still has the sound!

Visiting at Dr. Ellen Manthe's house

Mutes drying at Ion & Lisa's house

Visiting with Ion Balu

On the road again! We rolled out at 10 am, heading north on I-12 to I-55, headed to Memphis, the halfway point for our trip to the International Horn Symposium. We were hosted by Dr. Ellen Manthe (for dinner and the girls' bunks) and mute maker extraordinaire Ion Balu (where the boys stayed.) Tomorrow, more driving!
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Thus Spake Thomas Bacon

One of the benefits of having our trumpet prof., Paul Morton, as head of the UL Concerts committee is always having a great brass group come to campus, and the masterclasses that usually come along with it.

2 1/2 years ago we had the St. Louis Brass come in, whose newly appointed hornist was the esteemed Thomas Bacon. My students Jim and Alex each had what amounted to a private lesson with Thom, with me observing. One of the big things we (and especially Alex) took away was the directive to "never let them hear your WATER!!!"

Well, I reminded Thom of that just now on Facebook, and his response appears above!

The Raccoon Fiasco Ended in Tears . . .

Well, those of you who know me on Facebook heard about the raccoon family that moved into my master bath. Over the Memorial Day weekend, I no longer heard (or SMELLED) the mama, and hadn't heard the kits, so I thought, "Hallelujah, she moved them out!" Well, Monday night I heard one lone kit crying for her mama, but didn't think much of it, as I'd heard them calling her before. But Tuesday night rolled around, and still no mama back for this kit. I had to go in to work Wednesday morning, and as I was getting ready, I realized that the mewing was coming from not my light box above my vanity, but DOWN IN THE WALL. Uh-oh! I called John A., my bug guy, who raised raccoons back in the day, and has been advising me on all this.

We pulled the wall open, and got her out! But, she was too far gone, and didn't live.

Now I need to get the chimney siding replaced, the vents put back into my soffits, and have something like a WALL built between my soffit box and my bathroom lightbox, so this never, EVER, happens again!

More Fiddle Photos

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Hunt Family Fiddlers

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-----Original Message-----
From: cmr3877@louisiana.edu

Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:48:01
To: <go@blogger.com>
Subject: Fw: Hunt Family Fiddlers

Back in April, the Hunt Family Fiddlers came to Lafayette. This is a family of 8 who homeschool and teach violin (sort of) through the Suzuki method. Our studio got a masterclass with them, and enjoyed their show the following night.
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