Day 184: Friends leaving
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day
184 — Friends leaving
02-February-1972
(Mittwoch–Wed.)
TRANSCRIPT
Worked for hours in Electronic Music producing an
outstanding 30 seconds of “questionable quality”
music.
Found out that two very good horn players are
leaving—Jean-Pierre (will study in Montreal) and
Peggy R., around the Chicago area.
Jean-Pierre said, if I ever had the chance, to take a
few lessons from Pierre, solo hornist of the Montreal
Symphony.
REFLECTIONS
Hours
for seconds. Electronic
music. Yes, sometimes it takes a lot of work to
produce a few seconds of final result.
Friends leaving. Two horn
players, American and Canadian, are leaving to return
to their homes. There were probably here for a single
semester to experience the Vienna horn style, which
is different than the bigger sound of American
orchestras. Jean-Pierre and Peggy were very good
players.
Montreal.
I did get
to visit Jean-Pierre in Montreal for a very short
visit, some years later. Can’t remember when. My
visit was in the middle of the winter, it was biting
cold, and I remember walking over a bridge on the St.
Lawrence River and seeing these tremendous blocked-up
ice flows. I liked the old city in Montreal. No horn
lessons though.
Regrets.
I’ve said
it many times. (1) I wished that I had traveled much
more in my life. If you have the opportunity to
travel, do it. (2) I wish I kept a journal for other
times in my life. Without a journal, you just
remember the event (Montreal, winter) and not the
details or what you were thinking at the time.
John
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