Let’s go to the Cincinnati Symphony
Hello Friends,
As most of you know, I am a huge classical music fan. I'm the type of person that will clap easily at a baseball game when the Reds hit a homerun, but will stand and cheer wildly after an outstanding rendition of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
I have gone through the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's rep for the 2007/08 season and picked out a number of concerts that I consider must hears. If anyone wants to go with me, just give me a holler!
CSO : Stravinsky Festival
• Friday, November 2, 8pm
• Saturday, November 3, 8pm
• Sunday, November 4, 3pm
Paavo Järvi, conducting
May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director
STRAVINSKY FESTIVAL
STRAVINSKY: Chorale-Variations on Vom Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her (“From Heaven Above I Come to You”)
STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica
CSO : Old World, New World
• Friday, November 30, 8pm
• Saturday, December 1, 8pm
Hans Graf, conducting
Terrence Wilson, piano
LIADOV: Baba-Yaga, Op. 56
LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62
LIADOV: Kikimora, Op. 63
KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor,
Op. 95, From the New World
CSO : The French Connection
• Thursday, January 17, 7:30pm
(6:15 p.m. Thursday, Pre-Concert Dinner Buffet, free to ticketholders)
• Friday, January 18, 11am
• Saturday, January 19, 8pm
Paavo Järvi, conducting
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
RAVEL: Le tombeau de Couperin
RAVEL: Piano Concerto for Left Hand in
D Major
MUSSORGSKY/arr. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition*
*To be recorded by Telarc
CSO : Bold Brass
• Friday, January 25, 8pm
• Saturday, January 26, 8pm
Paavo Järvi, conducting
Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
ARVO PÄRT: Concerto Piccolo über
B-A-C-H (“Little Concerto on B-A-C-H”)
EINO TAMBERG: Concerto for Trumpet,
Op. 42
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 109
CSO : Fun & Romance
• Saturday, February 16, 8pm
• Sunday, February 17, 3pm
Susanna Mälkki, conducting
Peter Jablonski, piano
R. STRAUSS: Don Juan, Op. 20
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
JUKKA TIENSUU: Lumo (“Enchantment”)
R. STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier Suite,
Op. 59
CSO : Passionate Masterworks
• Thursday, February 28, 7:30pm
(6:15 p.m. Thursday, Pre-Concert Dinner Buffet, free to ticketholders)
• Friday, February 29, 8pm
• Saturday, March 1, 8pm
Stéphane Denève, conducting
Boris Berezovsky, piano
GUILLAUME CONNESSON: New work
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
CSO : Beloved Tchaikovsky
• Friday, March 7, 11am
• Saturday, March 8, 8pm
Paavo Järvi, conducting
Sayaka Shoji, violin
JÖRG WIDMANN: New work (U.S. Premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 3 in C Major,
Op. 52
CSO : Fabulous Finale
• Friday, May 2, 8pm
• Saturday, May 3, 8pm
Paavo Järvi, conducting
Lars Vogt, piano
ROBERT JOHNSON: prairyerth (World Premiere)
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
STRAVINSKY: Le sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring”)
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I’ll teach you to toot!
I started a new side job yesterday, teaching high school trumpet lessons!
I have two students from a smaller high school in Cincinnati that I will be teaching weekly from now until who knows. I was pleasantly surprised when I heard them play. Both are good players with (of course) areas that need attention.
I won't narrate the lessons to you, because really... who would want to read that. But instead I would like to take this post and talk about teaching.
These are my first students and I quickly learned a few things through the course of the hour with two very different aspiring musicians. First off, they are eager, and that eagerness needs to be met with a confidence of what's going on. When done with an exercise I need to be prepared to immediately start talking about what went well and what needs improvement. There isn't anything much worse in a private music lesson than silence.
Another item I noticed (going along with always needing to have something to say) I must first analyze how I play the trumpet in order to teach them. We were working on the original attack of a note and the steps you take preceding the sound.
Step one, bring the trumpet to your lips
Step two, take controlled breath through the corners of your mouth
Step three, set your embouchure
Step four, release an intense stream of air to play the note
I always wondered how my past teachers always seemed to have methods that they followed religiously and knew forward and back. Well I believe this is how, just a simply teaching lessons. In my brain I know what to do, but to vocalize it to a student I need a complete thought and coherent sentences. Build up enough of these crazy methods and then you write a book!
Right now I have mixed emotions about how much playing I do during the lessons. One half of me sways toward my own learning curve where I learn best from modeling others. The other half of me thinks that vocal explanations from experience might be best. The best solution is probably a mix of the two. I will most likely play a bit during lessons though. The kids are young and imitation is much of the time the best course to learn a proper method.
That's all for now, have a good Thursday!
- Jason