IHS 54 live on Sarah's Horn Hangouts

Keeping the Horn Hangouts global, Sarah hooked up live with the International Horn Society’s 54th annual meeting held in Kingsville, Texas in August 2022. Special guests included the featured artists of the IHS 54: Radegundis Tavares, President of the IHS, Luiz Garcia, Anneke Scott, Ricardo Montesinhos, Matias Piñera, Marshall Sealy, Kristina Mascher-Turner, Kerry Turner, Chris Castellanos, & Pan Ye. August 5th 2022

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Auto-generated from the live stream, expect the occasional robot mishearing.

Thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] good morning Sarah good morning it’s so lovely to be here we are so excited here representing IHS and IHS 54. so excited to have you here with us this is quite the honor and we are very much looking forward to your interview with some of our featured artists and to chat about what they’ve been doing all week how is everything been going for you as the organizer

Jennifer schultes everybody the organizer tireless organizer of IHS 54 you’re in Kingsville which is I looked it up 5547.602 miles from where I’m sitting in Berlin right now that’s actually quite a long way so it’s hot it’s hot here too it’s like I live under the roof and it’s like what’s 37 degrees in Fahrenheit I don’t know very hot yes

I was talking with someone and they said oh it’s so-and-so degrees Celsius I was like that doesn’t mean anything to me it’s hot it’s hot but we are having a fabulous time it’s hot in the sense of fabulous fabulous music fabulous presentations I think everyone has enjoyed their in-person Symposium after three years yes and um hey I’m on the hey good everyone’s waving is that

Nancy I see in the front row there of course she’s not wearing purple so I wasn’t quite sure oh oh yes she is oh thank you Hooper that’s a nice zoom into Nancy I love it yeah you guys got to be careful because what you’re seeing on your screen is not what the people at home are seeing because

Jacob is is editing it so he keeps going into the other camera so we do see a bit of the audience so no falling asleep well I’m going to turn this over to you because nobody wants to listen to me talk so take it away of course they do but welcome back everyone this is a huge welcome for all of you watching

I know we’re live on Facebook right now so if any of you have have not seen it on Facebook yet get over there and share it with all your friends um and we’re live on the on my the live page on my website Sarah west.com live that’s where you can ask any questions you’ve ever wanted to know about the

IHS what does the IHS stand for for people I know John is watching in New York and he’s a viola player so he’s probably completely bewildered what this IHS is the international horn Society Symposium is taking place in Kingsville Texas right now and as Jennifer has just said the organizer this amazing event it’s the first time that horn players have met in person to do something like this in three this is the three years

I guess it’s a it’s really incredible and I’m sure you’re all having amazing time and we also have someone just before I say welcome everybody else we have someone else who’s just joined us to say hello um can we beam him in now we have Louie Felipe Marcelle who will be the host of the next Symposium in uh in

Montreal next year and he’s got to get to a rehearsal so bonjour Bienvenu say hi to everybody hi Sarah hi everyone nice to be here it’s great to see you you’re only being watched by thousands of horn players worldwide I know it’s all right I know you have to go to rehearsal but um everyone’s in Kingsville now but they’ll all be in

Montreal next year so tell us yes tell us what we can expect um it’s going to be great you know at the moment it’s not so hot that it is in Berlin or in Kingsville it’s a perfect uh 26 degrees Celsius at the moment with a nice little breeze very sunny but aside from that temperature it’s just going to be an awesome

Symposium we’re at um at first it was going to be in 2021 and then we had to cancel it because of the covid so we’ve really been working on this for five years now so we’ve got a whole team of horn players from all over Quebec working on this we have hundreds of concerts and events coming up very nice venues all over town and even outside of town and concerts on the top of the mountain

I don’t know if you can see it at the back there and so it’s going to be just a a great week cool well thank you so much for joining us and there’s a video you’ve put together we won’t show it now but we’ll we’ll share me if someone if there’s a link to it where people can watch it maybe we can put that up in the chat yes we’ve just uh put our website live this morning uh just to make sure it was going to be ready for your hangout so it’s ihs55.org now if

Marie Michelle is watching she can put it up right now because I know she’s there right yes she’s there I’m sure okay there you go the up it goes uh Louis Philippe it’s so lovely to see you to and I owe you a phone call and we will be in touch later but I have to get on because

Mr President is waiting okay I just have one one request I can’t announce at the moment who’s going to be president but if I was to ask you to to be there for IHS 55 what would you say I would say it has to stay a complete secret and we’re not allowed to tell anybody that I might be there in person okay it was my only question thank you have a great summer you everyone’s waving in the room bye bye how lovely to see him how lovely to see him

I know it must be so much work to organize these things um I just wanted to say some hellos of people watching from all over the world right now um Jill Williams and bond hello Jill just back from Australia I know um Annie buzzler is there Annie are you watching look those are the earrings that Annie gave me um

Ricky Lee is in Berlin Karen Murphy in Florida Tiffany Howard pink in Nashville oh my goodness Hong Kong Joe Andy Pelletier is watching Andy lots of love to you sorry you can’t be there in person but lovely that the ex Mr President is watching and now I would like to welcome the current Mr President and three more featured artists or four rather go into this come on in here and tell us what’s going on yay hello

Sarah good morning you good-looking people and I must say there’s a very handsome man and a very nice t-shirt next to you [Laughter] Randy goundis Mr President thank you very much to you and your colleagues for playing just now that was you um well you say who you say who was Luca was who was playing first I’ve forgotten already um

Matthias Luca zambonini Matias Pena Bernardo Silva and yourself yes that’s right and that piece you were playing marquinos no frivo exactly exactly Brazilian music it’s a freeway style uh music thank you for playing that it’s always better to start with music I think and um welcome this is your first Symposium as um yeah as Mr President right yeah yeah very exciting and lots of work you know

I need to wake up early and uh to sleep very late but of course uh always uh to help the hosts that have the most uh work of everyone yeah the term Pages for me Sarah he even turned papers for you oh my goodness are you guys getting confused with this modern technique actually um Vinnie can you like take them off the big well

I mean I’m happy if you see it’s often quite uh distracting but if you’re okay like that yeah hello anyway I I’m just I want to make sure that you uh uh I’m not I’ve left the room I’m sad I can’t do anything about that you guys ah there she is sorry she’s back um brother goodness can you tell us what um what has been your role this week as president and then can you introduce the wonderful people next to you okay uh so yeah bye

I have Luis Garcia from Brazil Chile good morning all of you well it’s wonderful to see such good friends there and actually I’m quite wistful now because I wish I was with you um in the room uh I’m sure there’s some great partying going on at night as well I’m maybe a little bit no nothing nothing [Laughter] go to bed early that’s the whole point right [Music] let me buy at the

IHS tell me what you’re doing there we haven’t got a lot of time but um if if I just love to know um what everybody is what everybody’s doing what’s it like being there what’s it like performing I could see Matthias already going oh god I’ve got to speak in English right guitar thank you so much you know this is my second time in

America actually it’s my second time and I said I am really excited and thank you so much for the invitation president for everyone and Sarita nice to see you nice to see you too it’s been a long time what what are you doing here at the at the Symposium chaos is all right and Yes actually it’s a really really wonderful experience you did a master class already how were they did they play well for you yes well

I think that there’s no question for me it’s for the students yeah was he mean to you was he mean I’m asking the students to shout in the background or write in the chat yeah there’s a lot of people going on in the chat my mom says hello Matthias laughs Ronaldo Fonseca from Brazil do you guys know him yes we do yes yes yeah he says he’s watching as well isn’t this great you’re in

Kingsville Texas and everyone’s watching you from all around the world I love it it’s wonderful Ricardo good morning how are you good morning I’m really fine we need more no horn horn um low horns studies please the longhorn studies yeah there were really a big help for me and uh even on the yesterday’s recital I was playing

Longhorn and you believe it so I I always struggled with low horn but finally my low horn plank is improving because you wrote the studies right yes so we need more self-promotional you’re allowed to promote we need because I love your studies but um they’re hard actually they look harder there’s a lot of hands stopping in there uh no most of the time uh hand is not stopping okay well maybe

I was doing the wrong um so um is there anyone at home watching you this morning uh apart from my mum uh maybe my mom is watching my maybe my my son okay my wife if they’re watching I hope all my students uh that were practicing they maybe they stopped their practicing sessions for a few minutes to to watch me but then they need to resume and continue you mean you mean they’ve stopped net they they stop

Netflix to watch your horn hang out oh no that’s not how we practice and then he’ll continue practicing good thank you lovely to see you Annika my dear I show you okay now we’re going to get a bit technical so I’m picking up my computer and I’m going to show you all what’s holding it up [Music] it’s a perfect size to prop up my computer [Laughter] so a number of people um we’re almost sold out of that first run and the number of people who’ve said that the second or eight

I’ve got a way of keeping it open on my music standard we’re going to do the second round is going to have a better time but for the purposes of keeping a computer up it’s perfect that’s fine isn’t it great it’s great and I mean of course I take it down to practice because I love it but in the covert times when you sent it to me when we were doing all those

Hangouts I must admit um like we weren’t practicing all that much so it was it was more the computer proper upper so I just wanted to show you that it’s here with me always so what are you doing what sort of Handy horn thingies are you up to at the symposium I’m having a wonderful time this is the first time

I’ve had the chance to attend a whole IHS conference I got to go to London and I got to go to Ghent um but partially because it’s in Europe and partially sort of work commitments on both occasions I basically went in did my bid and went out so of course Coming to America coming to this event it would have been really really a silly idea just to come and just do my bit and go away so

I’ve had such a wonderful time being here for the entire conference and I think this is one of the great things about the IHS events is the huge cross-section of home playing you’ll hear here you know I’ve heard um singer songwriters I’ve heard people who from my world have heard contemporary music Laurel and such a wide range and

I think this is a great opportunity for us to broaden up our Horizons hear new stuff um so I’ve been here with we’ve all been doing the evening site also all the featured artists have had a slot so I had a performance a couple of nights ago we’ve had a natural horn competition which has been brilliant to see or the new talent coming through so

I had a master class with that and yesterday I had the opportunity to give a presentation talking about 19th century you know and what what on Earth was going on there but the main guy has just been hanging out and getting to chat to all sorts of Home players so I as I say it’s my first time at a complete convention and

I will definitely be coming back for the whole week for another one I’m looking forward to Montreal already yes everyone get your tickets book from Montreal and um I’ll see no one’s announcing anything right now it’s a secret Annika I will see you somewhere in the world um but it’s great to see you here I’m I’m really uh now

I’m getting quite sad because I should be there in person but I literally when I’m in Berlin you’re in London I know I know it’s just not fair you’re here while we’re doing the proms that’s that’s not okay we have to get our schedules more aligned our schedules as you say um it’s lovely to see you anyway and you’re looking glamorous as ever um and this handsome gentleman in the nice t-shirt um next to you

Louis it’s so good to see you but I’ll see you in person actually very soon right they say in Brazil we’re going to be at the ITB it sounds more like a Mesa and Frankfurt doesn’t it but um the internet what’s it called International trompa brazilianos that’s exactly what I said it’s a Brazilian whirlpoolers Association and is

Marcus in the room today or is he working his his stand is he there he sold everything already and oh you better take us out to dinner when we’re there it’s his Festival isn’t it yeah well looking forward to that and I’ll see you I’ll see you there too rather goodness no yes yes great so Luis what brings you here why why go to these events that’s a big question why should we all do that though for for those of you watching at home and we have um you know we have uh who oh gosh

Heidi Oris oh Heidi by the way uh sorry just a quick question for um for and Anika will there be a sequel I think she just answered that yes there will be she’s working on it and it’ll be a great size so we can prop up computers even better between practice um uh yoga Elena uh Elena our yoga teacher

Matthias she says a long slow breath say hi to you um she’s been great and uh and Timothy Dyess you know Timothy who knows Timothy Annika you do yeah very well she can says hi um but sorry Lewis carry on I interrupted you but the questions were all for Annika just now I’m trying to multitask here I understand so first of all what brings me here first of all the invitation from

Jennifer which is um I take it with a lot of joy it’s great being here it’s really exchanging experience with my fellow artists future artists and all the people taking taking part in the event we learn from each other we learn from them to learn from us and socially is also a blessed I have to say is everything packed in in a few days in a week uh things that we would take a long time to get done over a year in the course of the year we we get it done here in one week it’s a very effective experience and it’s awesome really good

Is did you practice that with him yesterday did I practice sorry did you did you practice that speech with him yesterday it was very good oh no no no no no okay but he’s helping me you know with everything it’s very very good I I I I agree with everything he says and uh and I show the people watching wishes that we all wish we were there don’t we guys even

John in New York who plays the viola um really goodness at this Ricky in Berlin has asked a question how the IHS picks locations can you help us answer that thanks locations oh yeah our wonderful Symposium coordinator Nancy Joy you know she works with uh future hosts uh hosts can propose a bid uh budget and then she works with this person and uh depending how it goes it is proposed to the advisor

Council of the international horn society and then uh we vote to choose the place you know it’s uh I was a host in 2017 in Natal Brazil and it’s a wonderful thing it’s uh unfortunate and Unforgettable experience yeah so if someone wants to host a symposium you should talk to Nancy it’s a lot of work I remember

I remember I remember when Annie and Andrew were doing um LA and who will we will never forget La that was the most incredible incredible Symposium but I think Andrew had to sleep for like a month afterwards and Annie’s still catching up um anyway it’s nice to see all the people behind you in the screen yeah right behind you the morning and remember there we go hi everyone and that’s what we’re seeing live on online right now what you’re seeing up on your screen like

The Wizard of Oz is not always what um Jacob is editing in so no no I saw that yawn just now lady in the green shirt I saw that so I’m really going to thank you you guys for for being there and for playing but we actually were swapping you out aren’t you because we wanted to feature all the featured artists do you have anything else to add when

Matthias why didn’t you bring your band Los pitutos um why are they not there no I don’t know maybe next time we need to to talk more about it yeah but maybe next time you are you will be here too right now no I don’t know I don’t know I asked you I’m not allowed to say okay [Laughter] exactly so all

I want to say is if Matthias and I were ever together at the same Symposium there would have to be a lot of salsa right we will discuss um Ricardo Anika Luis Matthias thank you very much you are dismissed thank you thank you everyone while they’re changing around Mr President you’re staying rather go under snow getting out there aha yeah so

I’ve met another chair you’re getting your disorganizing next Cruise so while you’re doing that um yeah Alec from Montreal did we say that we probably did uh Annika from South Africa is watching um I hope I pronounced that right from Mongolia um is watching and anyone else in the room there who else is watching in the room um

Karen is watching from Florida uh Sonia is there and uh yeah keep going I have to scroll back too far now so uh are the guests all there and waiting for us oh it’s so nice to see you you hey Chris oh my goodness Chris I’ve got a microphone hi Sarah hi oh my goodness I only know you from

Instagram and Mr Vegas horn himself well the same here I I always see you everywhere so it’s nice to actually talk to you everywhere and nowhere it’s about time we uh ended up in the same bar at the same time don’t you think I think so that would be amazing Chris castellanis everybody and uh next time is

Marshall see hi Marshall we’ve never met either in person or have we I don’t think so but we haven’t but I’ve watched you for years it seems like it’s nice to see even this close it’s like Yeah The Great Oz has spoken sorry it was a bit a bit of a shock when I saw saw it this morning but uh yeah great to see you what are you up to um at the

IHS for me yes who are you you’re the one you’re the only one I’m seeing right now so uh I know there’s a couple of Turners on the end there that I can’t wait to hug virtually but we’ll get there in a minute okay um yes uh this is my fifth my fifth conference uh Symposium and uh

I’m so excited to be here and honored to uh represent and uh sort of like uh outside of the box thinking in terms of playing jazz and honoring um my two teachers that have really influenced me the most Julius Watkins and uh Willie Ruff both of my teachers and uh to honor them and to uh basically pass on some of their

Traditions that they taught me but also to uh talk about my world music influences and I’ve traveled around the world with several World music ensembles and uh I’m gonna try to bring that here today so why is it that horn players are so uncool when they try and play jazz yourself of course as an exception and someone like

Giovanni and there are a couple out there that are really good but when I try it’s terribly uncool why is that why why can’t we why can’t we get over ourselves and just improvise well it’s not uh that you can’t play the French you want it’s it’s probably um what you listen to and uh and basically stepping outside and just trying very basic improvisation and then sort of growing with it most people think that jazz is just all about

Charlie Parker and if you can’t do that then you can’t play jazz you know and it’s really uh it’s just taking baby steps and uh and just sort of just improvising going out into the woods or in the mountains you know commuting with nature and just playing whatever comes into your head and then slowly but surely feeling enough so that you can go out in front of people and do that and then you sort of advance that way and it’s all basically trial by fire it definitely is

I’ve been trying a bit with my Cubans because you know there was this the first thing I played with them I got the the score and there was like blank for 18 bars and I said well what’s that oh it’s you improvising I was like me what um singing singing is getting easier improvising but I still can’t get around the finger again you said go out into the mountains

I thought you were talking literally you know about going out into the mountains of the horn improvising world and getting back down into the right key again but you actually meant going out into into real nature the real nature but for me improvising he’s a little like getting out into the mountains and then not knowing my way back well

I think just to clarify that a little bit it’s just uh I think it’s just getting to think about the horn in a different way it’s a little bit more organic and just not really think about the horn but think about thoughts and about how you can put thoughts of whatever it is as simple as it is maybe just playing open notes and stuff like that just to commune in a different way to your instrument so it’s kind of like how do you do that okay

I’m gonna do that this afternoon play some open notes and see if see if they see if they do that if you count your animals along the way that’s a good sign okay I’ll see what I can do right now I’m on La time so I’ve been dead up till now I’m slowly waking up so I’m doing doing okay um anyway it’s great to see you it’s great to meet you and

I would love to be there have you done your recital yet or is it still to come it’s this evening ah well I’m sure everyone there is going right yes I’ll be there good can someone secretly live stream it for me so that I can I can be there and watch I would love that Chris how about you in improvising how’s that are you any good friends

I mean it’s so much fun growing up in Las Vegas with a bunch of of people who that’s that’s what they do you know it’s it we make a joke in Las Vegas it’s like in Vegas uh you’ve got or in other places you’ve got a bunch of great classical trumpet players and and everybody can you know play the

Haydn and has great sounds and everybody in Las Vegas has Double C you know so it’s like it’s completely different scene but they’re all I mean amazing people to grow up around so as a horn player it was fun um but you’ve made quite you you you do all the big Tunes that’s your you’re you’re good at

Big Tunes I love it no yes yeah well you know I’ve always I just like to play what’s what I like to listen to and I like to do what’s fun you know I like to try to go back to the whole reason I started playing the horn in the in the first place which was it’s it’s kind of your voice and but you play what you like to play you know unfortunately the trajectory that my career ended up taking uh

I end up doing that most of the time so uh it’s it’s a really good time you know and that’s one of the best things about these symposiums is is is just being around people doing their their thing like so many horn players are really good at all different things and everybody’s got their thing that they’re really great at and it’s it’s really interesting to to be here and watch everybody just take this stage and like shine at what it is that they do that’s so lovely that’s really lovely what what have have you played or will you play uh

I am playing with Marshall today yeah we’re we’re sharing a concert so it’s gonna be really fun I can’t wait to take the stage with him because I’ve admired that his playing for so long and just you know sitting in between all the people that I’m sitting where the Turner’s over here and it’s just like oh my gosh man there’s a you know that’s another great thing about these symposiums is that when you come to places like this you end up running into people that you’ve admired your entire life watching uh

England listening and hearing their albums and stuff and then you get to sit down and talk and go to lunch and maybe hang out afterwards and all that stuff and there’s nowhere else that you can really do that except for these kind of events so everybody should should try to be at the as often as you can here here okay tickets are being booked now to

Montreal I can sense it um so thank you Chris next time in person I hope um now the cat now camera’s got to go a little bit to my left is that Kerry Turner I see and Christine or Masha Turner are you two in the house in the house [Laughter] welcome you to how absolutely lovely to see you here’s a big virtual hug the last time

I saw you was in London so long ago did you not do la oh that’s right you were in La I think it was L.A I was actually I did your your gigantic Mass horn thing I seen that on YouTube yeah yes that was uh Andrew Bain almost got arrested for that and in the end well he didn’t show up so it was me that almost got arrested for that but

I remember remember on the video well you can see you like Who Who Are you standing next to I don’t know you guys had played something really high it was the Star Wars and stripes and you go like this you go like whoa and Christina you were there too I was you know I was just on a side note

I was thinking about this and actually Sarah I’ve known you longer than I’ve known anyone in Spring about 26 70. we met when we were three people what are you laughing at least we were five right no but it’s just always such an exciting thing to be a present live at an IHS Symposium we spent so much time apart and in

Virtual contact with one another these past two years and you know speaking of friendships I have made lifelong friendships with so many of the people in this room people who are here today people who are here earlier in the week and for me the IHS is just this incredible happy boisterous family and we get to inspire one another musically and have all of these wonderful talks and

I have to say just every time I come I learn so much from listening to everyone else and experiencing who are playing from around the world so for me this is just a massive treat oh I think that deserves a round of applause that’s lovely and the fact that you two are together and you you’re just such a good team um and uh yeah what are you are you playing together at the

IHS this year what’s happening have you written any new stuff for the IHS Kerry have you written some new cool stuff for us this year Denise premiered a piece of mine last night called the most intriguing and exciting Avengers and uh it was eight minutes of uh pretty exciting stuff with large percussion Ensemble and everyone’s been telling me they wish they could play it twice they could have played it a second time because there was so much that happened in those eight minutes uh but actually a lot of my stuff is being played here it’s really so flattering and to have so many people come

By the Phoenix visit table and tell me about their performances and my music because I don’t know if you get that that validation when I’m sitting at home in my house in Brussels I find out that people are playing my things all over the world and it’s really encourages me when I when I hear that and and of course

Christina played my Sonata forward and piano at her recital and completely put the snot out of it and so uh pardon she played the snot out of it did you say or was that that’s I guess that must be an open Texas saying I like it we just call it snot not snap believe it or not that’s the polite one ah okay

I’m I’m sure she did it’s pretty wonderful everybody that’s been playing here has been really taking huge musical risks and playing with so much style and emotion and you know we’re not used to that those that are just go every day to the symphony orchestra or or just studying trying to learn notes in school we kind of become note machines note robots and and just deliver the note at the right place right time in the right dynamic they’re not doing that on this day people are going out there and they’re taking huge risks with really interesting repertoire and uh it’s it’s really inspiring and

I don’t think anybody here has not gone through a concert at least once and had to wipe away a tear from emotion because there have been so many emotional performance oh that’s beautiful and I also wanted to tell you I I go all over the world and hear masterclasses literally everywhere and they always bring your pieces you know when

I asked for ensembles they show up with your pieces and it’s always always a great pleasure to hear them and to play them except those those low horn Parts man hard but it’s great low horn rules well thank you two for being here and uh and I hope to see you in person very soon uh maybe yeah yeah say no more and

I’ve Just Seen who is sitting there that’s a surprise is that no but who’s there is that you hi hello so nice hi hi good morning we met in China we did yeah yeah I didn’t know you were on the list I wasn’t quite sure I couldn’t I couldn’t see you I couldn’t see you later but yeah yeah that’s great how has it been for you oh well it’s wonderful it’s great it’s great yeah taking the chances to come to this because since

I was really young in China uh you know something happened like this then I came and it’s really fascinating to hear so many great home players and play great pieces and then I remember it in China it’s not so common I think it was first time or something then the TV came I asked if you’re a mummy bring you here

I don’t know I brought my mommy here I come every time I learn a lot of things and it’s also a stage if you say you have something you want to share and give you the chance and it’s really I feel like a family feeling here wow that’s nice pan yeah everybody Welcome is it your very first it’s the very first time as a featured artist yeah

I’m sorry you’re too much to pause for you in the room right I know I wonder if anyone’s watching from China today is anyone out there um oh Adrian Diaz Martinez is watching from by white so that’s that’s a nice place to be right now he’s got best best chops of all of us in the house right now probably um it’s so nice to see you um is anyone awake in

China is anyone watching right now well I’m not sure exactly well we’ll see I think it’s rather late here in China now yeah I think I think it is I think it is but um it’s great you’re a surprise guess really good this year surprise your any more surprises for me today or is that uh uh how are we doing yeah this was the last surprise that’s a nice surprise thank you for that it’s made me actually very nostalgic um seeing everyone there are so many great friends and seeing the audience and the online chat um they are talking amongst themselves we’ve had a request

From Anna Rose for a horn hang out with Joshua Davis which I love because he’s uh he’s also also a fantastic arranger um and uh well maybe Clary maybe we should get together and do a horn hangout about how to arrange best for horns what do you think foreign we did something similar to that on the online

Symposium last year we had I think Marshall was on it we had a panel and we discussed compositions and arrangements for Warren and he had a lot of Great Exchange of ideas uh talked about the color of different Tunes different uh keys and talk about range and inspiration and it was a really good discussion that’s great if people come by my table too when we talk about that as well so this is one of the only places you can do that where everybody can free discourse from each other about arranging and composing and uh yeah the thing

I love about the IHS the most is you can be a total nerd and everybody loves it you know you know growing up at school it was hard to be a horror nerd being the only home player around and at College you have to it’s not cool to be a whole nerd so you have to pretend at least

I have to pretend in the orchestra you don’t talk about horn that much you ask Gwen’s coffee break and you know stuff like that but at the IHS you can be as nerdy as you want and everyone loves it and speaking of tables Philip and Ryman from floor from the second floor had just written in and said hello they’re watching the

Alexander team from from upstairs so uh yeah where are they they should be downstairs right now come and visit us well good you guys I mean yeah Mr President anything you want to add otherwise I think the day’s got to start there’s already been a concert already hasn’t there yeah there uh was already other activities uh we’ve had

War Arts you know and uh yeah many things happening at the same time we get we can get crazy really easy here you know to choose what to do yeah yeah that’s your job yeah but what about you tell a little bit about you what were you doing this week this is a this is about you guys today it’s not about me it’s about you guys but

I’m just happy to see you I just got back from La so um I I’m not uh the most awake person in the room um uh it’s it’s I really hope to be joining you soon really I should be there I wish you were doing some more live streaming and then we could you know have a look there was a rumor that handsome

Tim was going to um was going to look in but he’s on holiday in saskoon Saskatoon where’s that anyone know what that is sorry sorry I had no idea how to pronounce that uh do bears live there thank you unless they play hockey I don’t know oh okay all right well he’s in the middle of the Wilderness

I think he’s having a bit of a timeout and he was going to try I can just imagine him wandering through the woods with his uh phone but obviously it didn’t happen but I’m sure he sends his best um but there’s we have Jacob on the other end of this organizing all the horn hangout stuff it’s the first one for a while because uh we did so many in the pandemic and then everyone everyone did such great stuff well not everyone did great stuff but most a lot of people did a lot of great stuff there was also a lot of stuff on there that

Maybe yeah everyone it was a mixed bag of stuff online and um and so I just decided that we we take a step back and look and see and what was needed because what the horn Hangouts used to do um you know interviewing fantastic horn players arrangers composers um brass players in a live chat with a a written chat that was quite unique in those days and now everyone’s doing it so it’d be really interesting to hear from all of you sometime which way you’d like the horn

Hangouts to go what you think we should do because coming back now after really almost a Year’s break I’ve just realized it’s so much fun to hang out with horn players again yeah well we just I mean you know everybody just wanted to see your face on the on the screen and interviewing people because you’re so much fun to talk to you know so

I think that’s it it’s a it’s a great view you need to be doing it more often because it’s it brings everybody together and and allows people to to hear people in a really relaxed setting uh that they admire you know so thank you good morning thank you Chris I really appreciate that but I was just worried there was so much going on online that you know how to get the stuff out there that people wanted because people still write to me and say how do you play in the low horn well what mouthpiece do you use how do

I choose a horde and we’ve done all that already all of that is in the archives you know so it’s like thinking up something new but I have the feeling if you don’t have a parrot and you skateboard with it and do a handstand and bake at the same time you’re not interesting online yeah well you forget

Sarah that people are inherently lazy so they’re not gonna a lot of people aren’t going to go back into the archives would they help those help yeah we sign up tonight oh we could sing God Save the Queen here by the way so um yeah I also have a corkscrew with a horn on it I mean we could do

Show and Tell yeah this would be cool for your concert tonight actually the corkscrew would be amazing [Laughter] we were searching for one of those the other night actually this was a present from Annie Bosler so she’s done well she got me these earrings and you’re the best friend any any home player could have uh yeah so she

Marshall are gonna play and it’s a little like you were saying all the outside of the box and I’m really fortunate I just wanted to to uh to give my friend Nathan tanaui uh a real shout out because he wrote a really cool piece for horn piano and and bass and uh that’s not your your normal uh you know piece but he worked really hard on it and it’s going to be a lot of fun and uh and

Marshall’s playing some really cool stuff with with uh with use of like the uh visual media and other players and everything so it’ll be a lot of fun I hope someone’s filming that so we get to see it I would love to see that and also Karen Murphy Travers has just suggested a horn hangout about jazz horn with jazz horn players so that might get me over my phobia of jazz improvising

I have all the books as a great guy in Puerto Rico as well Joshua you know he sent me a book as well and and um you know Ricardo’s uh attitudes are also quite Jazzy but it’s just this getting out there and having to do it by yourself think up something yourself that’s what I find hard yeah well you know horn players we work so hard to just sound good on the instrument and then you know one and then you’re like oh

I want to play something different but I don’t want to go backwards and then so a lot of people just don’t step backwards they don’t step outside of the box so I mean it’s like you have to be willing to um sacrifice a little bit of ego or maybe a lot bit of ego in order to have fun and and create something new in your musical vocabulary it’s a little bit like low horn as well because wherever

I go in the world no matter who I’ve got playing for me there will be someone saying can you show me how to play low horn and I’m like okay what’s the problem ahead it doesn’t sound very good when I go down in the low range I say well do you practice it oh no why don’t you practice at all because it doesn’t sound good so you know we go around and round and round so it’s the same sort of thing getting people out of their comfort zone if they’re not sounding very good somewhere how many people go but yeah most people

Wobble around on the G just because they just want to get it over and done with and it doesn’t sound good and how many people stop and really work on that mid to low range um to get yourself out of that comfort zone but first you’ve got to do it at home and that that’s where it’s a bit ego bruising at times if that’s what you meant oh yeah definitely and the fact that we’re always comparing ourselves to the best of the best which can be great but it’s like when you start playing if you start you know playing jazz you’re not going to be

With Marcellus right away you know or ever the horn though did you see him playing the horn he was pretty good yeah that made me sad all you have to do is let the thumb valve down that’s all he did and then he was in B flat he was like oh man it’s easy yeah it seemed easy well well thank you you guys yeah one other thing

I’d like to add is um I think uh you have to sort of Do It For the Love of the Game playing jazz because it doesn’t always compute into a financially viable option because you have to just play and it’s not always going to be income producing so you really have to step out and really love to do this take the chance just do advancing it and you’re doing it for yourself more than just for the financial gains so that’s the other part of it uh the next

Symposium could be discussing how we could or do horn players make Financial gains that’s if you’re doing the horn Hangouts you certainly don’t I’ll tell you but we do it for the love and I do it because I just love hanging out and I was the loneliest student in the world and I never want another student to be as lonely as

I was while I was um growing up because I wanted to talk about horror and I wanted to to share stories about mouthpieces and great recordings and somehow I was made to feel that’s not okay but yeah but it’s horn symposiums and Horn hangers everything it is okay and it’s encouraged and uh yeah I’m really glad you guys are there and having a fantastic time and now

I’m now I’m sad [Laughter] anyway I know we’ve got it we’ve got to wrap it up um so thank you so much to all of you I mean you and and Carrie and Christine and pan and Randy gunders Mr President Mr President do you want to finish us all you have a final word for us all right yeah

I’d like to thank you for doing this oh that’s a nice word thank you that was we are very happy uh the digest is a lot about connecting people and I think you have a lot with that too so I think it’s a great uh thing to be together thank you thanks everyone for being here yeah thanks to everyone all right [Applause]

I can see Ricardo in the front row there very good Peter steidlin the second row there look at them all hi everybody and is Annie there somewhere Annie where are you she in there somewhere or she watching online can’t see her anyway wave to wave to the audience where they can all see you online even if you can’t see there you go well sending lots and lots of love um to

Texas and I hope you have a lovely rest of the Symposium everybody enjoy the concert tonight um from Chris and Marshall though I’m sure that’ll be amazing and uh Carrie and Christine and pan as well I are you still playing or you go tonight or you didn’t know Christine you played already didn’t you I thought you were wearing a very beautiful dress oh thank you very much

I had a recital together with Denise Tryon and our lovely pianist delivered to Bloomberg she’s there oh that’s she’s right out there hi Loretta there you are I didn’t recognize you how lovely to see you oh hello everybody that’s Loretta she’s the most amazing piano accompanist in the world I mean I you’re you you’re so much more than that but she understands home players and uh and she waits for us to empty our spit between movements and uh yeah she’s great are you playing anything else

Christina I just got one more performance this afternoon there’s an ensemble called the new core noodle Ensemble that Steve Cohen has put together and the concert title is a celebration of Carrie Turner so we’re going to be playing several of his large Ensemble works together dressed in Western guard I’m doing a master class tomorrow morning for the

Youth day so I’ll be working with some of the Allstate high schoolers from around Texas fantastic that’s so important to to go out into Community because in England uh Anna Nicole know this if she’s still there there was a report in the paper that horn was the least one of the least chosen instruments of all the the young kids these days and

I thought that can’t be and so I’m making it my mission to in England anyway to try and get out there and encourage more people to play horns so any any sort of youth work you know Outreach work that the IHS can do is really fantastic and if you’ve got a youth day tomorrow that that really is amazing so that’s great that’s really nice to hear that’s very important um because you know we all have a great great time playing but we’ve got to encourage the younger generation and show them how great how great ihs’s can be so they all want to be home players

Okay Amen to that um let me just see here in the chat Howard pink signing off saying goodbye Ricky Lee thank you Heidi oros Karen Greg Roosa is watching uh secondhorn La Phil that’s lovely to know that he’s there I just stepped in for him last week I think he was on on vacation so I got to play for him so um it was really amazing being back with that

Orchestra again um yeah what’s for what’s for lunch steak there’s an amazing barbecue place like right down from my hotel and uh if you guys are like into like brisket and like ribs and all that stuff you need to go down to that place I don’t remember the name of it so I can’t exactly plug the name of it but

I mean uh I’ll tell you if you come up to me where it’s at sounds good my hair yesterday and I might have ate too much do they have a vegetarian option uh yeah water laughs okay understood understood well I’m sure there’ll be more vegetarian options in Montreal I I mean well you know should one go there uh next year for the

Symposium um it’s been lovely being with you I’m signing off wishing you a fantastic day rather goodness thank you for setting this up you really are um yeah you’re you’re a great president and I’m sure everybody’s appreciating your very first IHS aren’t you everybody there yeah a lot of cheering going on sending lots of love from Berlin and um yeah

I will uh stay in the room just for a second but we are leaving um Jaco’s going to cut the streams so we are saying goodbye to our online viewers everybody wave thanks for joining us on the IHS 54 live from Kingsville bye everybody [Music]

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