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Re: French Horns

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Subject: Re: French Horns
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:49:07 +0100 (BST)
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, brassman wrote:

> I arranged Bernstein's "On the Water Front" which also begins with french
> horn, and although I gave it to the tenor horn, it would be better
> sounding, played on the french horn.  Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
> (arranged by Keith Wilkinson) uses a tenor horn for the opening.  I
> wouldn't mind hearing the opening statement played by a traditional
> clarinet as long as he put the instrument down after the opening.

I think the manstyle way to do this would be to stick the solo 'as is' in
the flugel part.  Trill on low G, 1/2 valve gliss up to high C.  This
isn't so hard on euph, I don't know how many flugel players would be able
to do it....

> Mark Freeh (NYC)

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