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Re: a moment of respite!

Author: hautbois
Date: 2008-04-05 23:52

Elaine Duvas is one of the principals in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. In the summer she plays and teaches in Aspen. Her playing is highly regarded in America, and I have enjoyed attending many Met performances in which she played. As for Jessye Norman, I get a different type of "chills" when I think of her. She sang that very same Wagner work with the orchestra in which I was principal, and she would certainly have impressed me greatly with her singing but for the fact that her rude behavior towards us in rehearsal made us all extremely uncomfortable.
I always have found it difficult to incorporate fluidly a new fingering, and especially multi-phonic ones, in a short period of time (such as one rehearsal week). It is impressive that you have learned a number of them all at once.

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