Day 255: Ein wunderbar Tage
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
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Day
255 — Ein wunderbar Tage
13-April-1972
(Donnerstag–Thur.)
TRANSCRIPT
Roland Berger, 1st horn
(left) and Frederick Gabler,
assistant 1st horn (2nd from left)
Ein wunderbar tage.
8:00 Horn unteriecht. Hat gut genug gespielt.
9:00–11:00 El. Musik. Nicht sehr viel gesucht aber
etwas.
11:30–1:00 Klavier gespielt.
Mittagrossen
2:30–3:00 Spielen des horn and des kalvier zusammen.
War genussig von mir.
3:00–5:00 Ich habe (snuck)
intmein die probe uber Mahler’s 5th. Wiener
Philharmonik und Len. Bernstein. Sehr interessant.
Er macht gute musik und auch gute Tanzen. Für mich,
das ist egal.
6:00–7:15 Etwa von eine vorksung von Prof. Kaufmann
mit. El. Musick gehort.
7:30–9:00. Heiler #6. Kozert des Bach orgel. Sehr
Gut. Ich bin immer von den spielen des Heiler
fasciniert.
9:00–11:00 Fier filmen über Buster Keaton in film
museum. Ganz Lustig.
Ein ganzer voller tag.
REFLECTIONS
Translations
for Day 3. Some great
things are starting to happen here in Vienna. First,
I’ll try to do my translation.
TRANSLATION ATTEMPT
A wonderful day.
Horn lesson. I played well.
Electronic music. I didn’t get much accomplished.
Piano practice.
Lunch
Horn and piano practice together. Was enough for me.
3:00 I “snuck” into a rehearsal of Leonard Bernstein
conducting the Vienna Philharmonic playing Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5. He made good music and good dancing.
For myself, it is egal (all
the same).
Evening.
6:00 A lecture
(Vortrag; I
wrote vorksung
?) of Prof.
Kaufmann’s. Listening to electronic music.
7:30 – Heiler #6 Bach organ concert. Very good. I am
always fascinated with the playing of Heiler.
9:00 Four films of Buster Keaton in the Film Museum.
Very funny.
A very full day.
END TRANSLATION
Leonard
Bernstein conducts the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra
1972
What a day. Holy cow,
was this a full day or what? Horn lesson, piano
practice, electronic music, a rehearsal of Leonard
Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, an
electronic music lecture, another Bach Heiler
concert, and watching Buster Keaton silent films to
11 pm.
Electronic
music. Sure,
there’s time for a early evening lecture by Prof.
Kaufmann, right before the Heiler concert.
Heiler #6 and Mike. This is
the 6th concert in the Bach series from Anton Heiler.
My friend, Mike, was studying with Heiler in the
Hochshule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. Mike had
to be a pretty incredible organist to be studying
with him. Mike’s subsequent musical success
demonstrated that ably. I still haven’t written that
email yet to try and contact Mike. Soon.
Bust’em
Keaton. I’m not
tired, so I attend another preview of Buster Keaton’s
silent films. And this was before they invented
today’s “power” and “energy” bars. So, there!
The VPO
horn section on Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, under
Bernstein
Bernstein is in Vienna. This is
the big news of the day. Leonard Bernstein is in
Vienna to conduct an entire series of Mahler
symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. I
was waiting for this to appear in the journal. I did
sneak into a rehearsal of the Mahler 5th with
Bernstein, in the afternoon. I know that it was my
friend Mike who steered us to this great opportunity.
My horn professor, Frederich Gabler, was playing
assistant first horn on Mahler 5 for the televised
series of the Bernstein concerts. (See opening photo
from YouTube. Prof. Gabler is 2nd from left.)
Roland
Berger, 1st horn in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
I love
Mahler, especially his Symphony
No. 5. The
fourth movement, Adagietto,
is not of this world. What an experience to sit and
watch Bernstein in rehearsal conduct the Vienna
Philharmonic.
There will be more on Bernstein.
Exciting Links:
YouTube videos:
Video of Mahler’s 5th, horn solo
Another view of Mahler’s 5th, horn solo
Bernstein
conducts Mahler in the Musikverein 1972
John
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