Day 323: Horn recital and goodbye and hello to friends
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day
323 — Horn recital and goodbye and hello to friends
20-Jun-1972
(Dienstag–Tue.)
TRANSCRIPT
Getting ready to leave with packing, etc.
Before recital, ate and had a couple of beers. Didn’t
help. It really didn’t go too well. All my planning
with relaxing helped but certainly did not go the way
it should have. Crap. It could gone only a little
worse.
Afterwards, said goodbye
to everyone. Czerny, Prof. Grabler, Prof. Urbanek,
Wildholm. It was really nice knowing everyone and it
was really a good year.
Also, went drinking. First with James Godette. Pretty
good hornist. Then, went with the old “electronic
gang.” (Koshi, Camilla, Roget, Balzac, Judy and Prof.
Kaufmann and Ing. Gottwald, I believe). It was also a
good group.
REFLECTIONS
Nervous
recital. Ok, it
looks like I was nervous and my psychology tricks
didn’t work as well as I wanted. I’m sure I played
fine. There were just some passages where I certainly
made a mistake or two. Unfortunately, you can’t be a
pro when you make a mistake or two. I never intended
to be a professional horn player—I knew my
limitations. However, I would
like to
play perfectly.
I can’t believe I had beer before the recital.
Probably at lunch. Never do that boys and girls.
Goodbye
to friends and teachers. It looks
like I go out with both the horn students (James G.
was a friend) and the electronic class with everyone
as well. Both Prof. Gabler and Kaufmann were,
again—I’ve said it a million times—teachers that went
beyond the normal bounds of teaching to offer me
additional, wonderful experiences, in both performing
on the horn, and in learning the craft of musique
concrète. Thanks to both Prof. Gabler and Kaufmann.
Even in
2009, I feel a bit sad at leaving that year in Vienna
behind.
2009—Ragtime.
In 2009, I
had the pleasure today to attend a ragtime
lecture/concert by an old college friend, Jack O. It
was a great concert. His playing was top of the form
and his insights and lecture on the music of ragtime
was thoroughly enjoyable. Jack has a very successful
career as a Dean in a major university. I hadn’t seen
him in over 36 years (since, before Vienna). Not only
that, I got to see Lucille, Rocco, and Gerry—all
friends from Montclair State as well. Everyone looked
great—I’m a little chubbier. It was wonderful seeing
everyone and reminiscing on our old college stories.
What fun.
You can see Jack, Lucille, and (I think) Rocco and
Gerry in some of my Montclair photos in the Photos
section of the blog. Jack was present of our musical
fraternity and Lucille was in the Dixie Pixies.
Enjoy.
John
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