The global horn community gets together on the Horn Hangouts to celebrate Julie Landsman´s birthday. Featuring a rendition of Happy Birthday like you have never heard it before and party hats galore. Party guests: Julie, Sarah Willis, Radovan & Dinka Vlatković, Andrew Bain, Gail Williams, Jen Montone, Stefan Jezierski, Barbara Jöstlein Currie, Tim Jones, Nathaniel Silberschlag, Michelle Baker, Julia Pilant, Erik Ralske (Captain Kirk) and Handsome Tim Kelly.
Transcript
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Hi everybody. All together now, please. I want the global horn hangout audience to now sing Happy Birthday. Tim and I are going to sing as loudly as we can. Julie Landsman, Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday, dear Julie. Happy Birthday to you. Julie, happy birthday. You’re bringing me to tears. Oh, well, just you wait. You’re going to be bawling by the end of tonight then. Good tears. It’s been a little crazy, hasn’t it? Totally crazy. How are you doing? I’m doing well.
All things considered, I’m doing well. Thank you. Good. You’re being careful, not going out too much, washing your hands. I’m washing my hands like crazy, but I am going out with my dog. We’re in the woods a lot. Of course. No cooties in the woods. Who knows? No. Dog cooties. Um how I love those flowers. Were they a birthday present? No, there’s no flower delivery in Nyack, New York, but I had wished I have quite a collection outside, which is lovely. In fact, can you see you see these?
Oh, I have another little vase that’s hiding somewhere. They look absolutely beautiful. And these are for you because in Berlin, the flower store was open today. So, things are looking up. And these are for you. Tim Morris, thank you. Thank you. And what do you think of Tim’s necktie? Let’s see. Do you like it? I would call that the sexiest thing on Earth. What do you That’s Tim. That’s Tim. What do you think of the necktie? I also I put up my birthday sign as well.
Aw. I know how to celebrate. And And Julie, look, there’s Oh, the it’s gone wonky. You I bought you a cake. Oh, it’s chocolate with daisies. It’s chocolate. They’re They’re pansies, actually. They’re a bit limp by now. They’re from They’re from my garden. Um but the the cake is You know when you go to Vienna and you you’re at the at the opera house, there’s the Sacher-Torte cafe right next door. And I always buy the little ones and then stick them in my freezer uh and then take them out for special occasions and I still had one.
So, this is yours and I’m going to eat it all by myself. I’ll take that personally. It’s a special occasion. So, everybody who’s watching, hello, welcome to Julie Lansman’s global horn hangout birthday party. We’ve never done anything like Well, we had a big hangout last week, but a birthday party. We have We have some surprises for you today, Julie, and um people are writing in from all over the world. Right, tell us where you’re writing from. Everyone’s writing Eric Reed says, “Happy birthday, Julie.” Julie Julie Phelan says, “Happy birthday and thank you to Sarah and Tim.” Um Heinz Hania, Alex Martha um Alex in Tempelhof says, “Happy birthday here in Berlin.” Um we want to know where you’re writing from.
Estonia, Usip in Estonia says, “Happy birthday.” Um “Can we get the sheet music for your intro song?” That was Happy Birthday. Oh Oh, you mean you mean the one from the thing. That’s my Marin Marie La Basque. You can find that. Have you played that, Julie? It’s a lovely lovely little ditty. It’s Dennis Brains on Cor Piece. Exactly. He He loved to play that piece. It’s all right until it gets to the fast bit. Um well, I didn’t say that I played it, but I’ve seen it.
Uh the the in the um in the intro you it stops before the fast bit, so so that’s good. Look at Julie, this is incredible when you see this. You’re going to have the It’s incredible. What a a lot of people are saying happy birthday from all over the world. Let us know where you’re writing from. And for you on Facebook as well, Julie, we get to see all those Ljubljana, London, uh Sweden, um Germany, uh Alabama, USA, my mom says happy birthday. Julie, I don’t think you’ve ever had so many happy birthdays.
This is incredible. Peru. Incredible. I really love it. So, Tim, what should we what what should we do first? I’m not sure. I’m never I’m never quite sure how to start off a party. I always feel like it’s a little bit They get into it a little bit. But, we’ve done the singing. What’s next? Julie, Julie, are you are you a party girl? I mean, I’ve been to some good parties after concerts and masterclasses. I threw you a good party as a matter of fact. You did offer You remember?
You did the inviting as you did today, and I threw the party. That That’s a good way of doing it. I didn’t even have to clean up. Yeah, no no My kids cleaned up. We had many wonderful horn students busy that night. That’s so nice. Uh speaking of your some got to take home some of the beer. Am I right about that? Not not wrong. It looks like the first guest has arrived. Hello, you two. Oh, they look very serious. serious. Is it working? Maybe they don’t have a staff yet.
Hi. Hey, Julie. Hey, good to see you again. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Julie. Thank you. Good to to you both. When did both meet? When did you meet? Oh, a year or two ago, right? At Julia’s? Oh, look. So pretty. Can you sing us Happy Birthday in in your on your your national language? Is there a special song? Actually, there is. Okay. Oh. I feel like I should have a special costume on when I listen to that. I love it. I love it. That’s fantastic. Radovan, you’re very talented.
Oh, someone Hey! Here we go. Hello. Hey, how are you, my friend? Happy birthday. Thank you, dear. Good to see you again. Oh. Where’s the wine, Stefan? Uh right here. Oh, good. CHEERS. CHEERS. WHAT ARE WE DRINKING TODAY, STEFAN? Excuse me? What are we drinking today? I have a Merlot from the Yumila area of Spain. Uh it’s it’s 14.5% alcohol. Looks like it’s definitely worth drinking. Woof. And quite tasty. I’m I’m going to open this bottle right up. What a Rodavan Chardonnay? No. Is it Chardonnay?
It’s called Rodavan Chardonnay. Oh, really? Rodavine. Rodavine, I think you all know Rodavine. I love it. I’m afraid I haven’t hit the wine yet. I’m still doing some coffee, so Mahalo. I remember that the last party we had together actually was at Indiana. Oh, it’s unforgettable. With Rick Todd and Vince DeRosa. That was a more a more memorable another person there. Charlie Putnam was there. Oh. Was Charlie there as well? Charlie was there and we were very bad. We misbehaved completely. Tell us more. Tell us more.
Or we might get arrested, so we I think we’ll leave it like that. Who’s Mr. Max Oliver? Oh. That’s Jen’s boy. Hey Jen. Welcome to the party. Hey, cheers. A small glass. Look. Cheers Jen. What’s that? Cheers. Uh Nutella. I get this for you all in America. Daytime. So excuse our European decadence here. Look at that. Nutella. Nutella and strawberries. This is amazing. Oh my goodness. And a nice ah oh, THERE’S A MOOSE. OH. CHEERS EVERYBODY AND happy birthday. Hey. Hey Dale, cheers. Oh, looks like it looks like Oh, look at look at the sign.
Oh, that’s nice. It’s hard for me to see. Could you read it to me? I think it says happy birthday Julie. Julie. Thank you, Jen. I also thank you for the gifts. Of course. It’s It’s a beautiful gift. In fact, one of them will be used tonight in my newly cleaned Jacuzzi. Thank you. Wow. Wow. Well, it’s It’s hotting up. Gail, welcome. Welcome, Gail. What have you got on your head? A party hat. A party hat. It’s my party hat. HEY. HEY, GAIL. Very attractive. I like it.
Thank you. It’s to keep US WARM, GUYS. HERE’S ANOTHER PARTY HAT. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL GIFT. In fact, one of them will be used tonight. Andrew Bain is in the room. Wow. I have to look at my party hat. Welcome, Gail. What have you got on your head? A party hat. It’s my PARTY HAT. HEY. HEY, GAIL. VERY ATTRACTIVE. Someone’s Someone’s got their Facebook on loud. I It might be Stefan Yezerski. Loud? What do you mean loud? Andrew Bain is in the room. This is my dude of the week.
I love it. BEAUTIFUL. SO FUNNY. I LOVE IT. GAIL, I can see your horn. Are we going to play? Well, eventually I think we should serenade Julie. I absolutely agree. You You missed serenade. Serenade. I got it. Absolutely. Um Radovan and Dinka already serenaded in in typical uh what was it? Creation style? I get it. happy. Yes. Stefan, I’ve never seen you look lovelier. Oh, thank you. And Andrew, how long do the batteries last on that? Not sure. But, we’ll find out. I know, right? Julie, look at this.
Everyone Everyone Star Wars Andrew’s Andrew is here. Yeah, there you go. Um Alex Keenley is watching, Julie. Oh. Hi, Alex. Lisa Ford Lisa Ford is watching. Happy birthday, Julie. Happy birthday from Romania. Happy birthday from Boston, from Hadley. Happy birthday from London. Oh my goodness. You’re going to You’re going to go crazy when you I This haven’t been so many happy birthdays ever, I think, online. So, what was your best birthday so far, apart from this one? Oh, that’s a really good question. I think this one takes the cake, but apart from this one, oh, wow.
I remember when I was a little girl, my parents took me to Patricia Murphy’s. I don’t know if any New Yorkers knew about Patricia Murphy’s. It was a very fancy restaurant that they took little girls to for their birthdays. But, the sad thing is, they thought someone else was the birthday girl. So, it wasn’t my best birthday. They brought the cake to the girl sitting next to me. NO. I KNOW. WHAT I THAT’S NOT MY BEST BIRTHDAY, BUT IT’S A MEMORABLE ONE. I THINK this is the best one cuz I I really wondered if I’d have a birthday at all today.
It’s such peculiar time. And I’ve always had uh special birthdays for the last 7 years. It’s been with my esteemed girls, Jen being one of those esteemed girls, Michelle Baker, who I assume is watching, Julie Pyland, I know is watching, and Sharon Julie’s here. Barbara Jocelyn. These are my girls, and we have birthday parties for me every year. So, here we are. I’m glad to have all of you doing it. Aw, that’s so nice. Andrew, you found your shirt. Well done. Yeah, it took a it took a while, but we got there.
I lost my shirt. I couldn’t find my shirt today. Probably in the wash, could be. It’s okay, guys. You’re so sweet. You’re so supportive. You can have a day off the shirts. Radovan and Dinka, they they you you only come in the double pack. Yeah. You’ve gone a bit dark. Has your has your light gone off? Well. Well. I’m having with the light. Somebody needs a haircut. I need a haircut and a shave. Oh my goodness. I tried to adjust to Radovan. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.
Cheers. Oh god, stop so much. Cheers, everybody. Cheers. Cheers. Oh my goodness. Oh, it’s okay. Um I’ve got It’s already so late that we can be decadent. I mean, if you’re in California, it’s like the middle of the day, so it It doesn’t matter to Andrew, does it, Andrew? Australian, I know that. I mean, I realize Andrew, good to see you. Good to see you, Andrew. You’re on vacation, right? 24/7. Yeah, exactly. Andrew, you I Andrew, we can’t hear you. We can’t hear you. He said 24/7.
Oh, wait a second. I have to bring something. Julie, a lot of people do know Patricia Murphys. They knew that yeah. Yeah, they did. Cinderella Michael Goldring and Janet Pearson Of course, they’re my childhood friends, Michael and Janet. We were in Westchester Youth Symphony together. Is he a bass player, Michael Goldrick? Michael was the bass player. You know Michael? I went to the School of the Arts. I remember him from way back. I’d forgotten about him, but I know him. Michael. Same Michael. Julie, happy birthday.
Happy birthday. Is he on Facebook? Look at what What am I seeing? Happy birthday. The stripper’s arrived. I mean Tim. Hey Julie, happy birthday. Where? Happy birthday. Who Who am I looking at? Am I missing people? Yes, look down. Okay, I’m getting THE OKAY, ENOUGH. OW! IT’S MY MAN. HOW are you? Where have you been, Tim? I miss you. Miss you. But where were you last Friday? We had another party. You stood us up. Come on. I know. Yeah, I’m just a miserable Englishman, you know.
I couldn’t help it. I’m so sorry. But Sarah’s forgive You’ll forgive me. Thank you for I more than forgive you. I adore you. Now that Now that Tim has joined the party, I’d like to share something with you from a very old friend of yours. Um let me just uh I’ve just got to get all the technical stuff. I don’t know if you can see this. Can you see that? Um oh Jonathan. Hey Julie, happy birthday. That’s Jonathan. Hey Hey. It’s my last night with my American people tonight.
Sorry you weren’t invited to that. Big happy birthday, and I just want to apologize for peeing in your pool life. Big love. Take care and stay well. He said He said he just wants to apologize for peeing in your pool when he was five. Yes, he did. that? Sarah, we had to shut the pool down at that time and it hasn’t reopened. Oh. Can you explain that for those of you watching that was who didn’t see that very well. Sorry, I didn’t have the technical that was Jonathan Lipton fourth horn of the LSO for how many years Tim?
33 years. 33. Wow. Well, Jonathan and I we grew up together. We our families used to have Passover seders together. And the first time I got drunk was with Jonathan Lipton that was after he peed in the pool. He was five when he did that. So, I hope so. Well, I think we we could fast forward to maybe like maybe 10. John he’s not there. So, I can’t get verification. But we did our Passover four glasses and got wasted. Oh dear. Now, there’s there’s one other thing that I would like to share.
I don’t know if this is going to work Julie. If not, I’ll send it to you. But Can you see it? Sort of. It’s your Juilliard students. Oh, how beautiful. I hope they’re all watching because I love them so much. They’re such great They are watching. Are you guys watching? You are watching, aren’t you? I think they are. I hope so. So, hang on. All right guys, the thing is I’ve just been scrolling through looking who’s on this chat. Now, Dinka gets A1 cuz she’s wearing a Horn Hangout t-shirt.
Andrew Bain in LA, that t-shirt is too small, man. You’ve grown out of it. And Stefan, and Stefan I need a haircut. What’s this beard? This beard is a different color. What’s Why isn’t it gray like mine? White. White. You haven’t seen my shoes yet that I put on for this. Hang on. All right. Oh, yeah. God love me. Spike. OH, WOOHOO. BABY. I CAN’T WAIT. Can you please put it on your foot and show it Show it to us on your foot? He hasn’t shaved his He hasn’t shaved his legs either.
Maybe better not. I don’t mind hairy legs, but I got to see the feet. They’re They’re a big priority in my life. You could WEAR IT. BEAUTIFUL. THERE’S There’s someone Uno Tanner, it’s his first live hangout tonight. So, uh So, it’s not always like this. Julie, I’m disappointed. When I You mean when I was in Santa Barbara last year, you only looked at my feet. I thought you were looking me in the eye. Excuse me, you were in a compromised position. Were you wearing gold heels as well?
Oh, gold heels? Yeah, no, no, no, no. I I couldn’t steal them off my wife. She was in the hotel. That was That was a great party we had, wasn’t it? Yeah, lovely. Tell us Tell us more about the parties. Well, Stefan Stefan Yitski keeps falling off his chair. Oh, no, there he is. What’s he doing over there? He’s making sure Tim Tim Tim, what did you What What Why hasn’t Stefan J got a Why hasn’t he got a Horn Hangout t-shirt? The problem was I had did last last week.
I had the horn hang out. I was very proud that I found the hang out shirt. And now it was like 9:00 and I went to my closet and then I looked and I thought it was in this pile of t-shirts, but I couldn’t find it. So all I could find was my my excuses t-shirt uh the excuses for Oh yeah, bit closer. Bit closer. Yeah, there we go. Full-blown excuses. I haven’t had time to practice. My horn is cold. I’ve practiced it faster. I had to cough.
I’ve never played this before. There’s water in my horn. My lip is shot. I didn’t know we were repeating. It sounded better at home. My time My tuning slide is stuck. My transposition has changed. Something What’s a Can’t read that. It’s under your boobs. Um anyway, yeah. Somebody had to say that, Sarah. Thank you. If if you I don’t like this piece anyway. I don’t like this piece anyway. If if any of you have any good horn excuses, let us know what they are because Stefan’s t-shirt actually says it all.
But um but if you have any really good horn excuses, let us know cuz we need a few more for the repertoire. Tim, what’s your favorite horn excuse? Not good enough. It’s not good enough. Gail, how about you? You got a good horn excuse? Let me think for a few minutes cuz he’s already said many of them. Oh, yeah. Another one is I played it in right, but it just came out wrong. Yeah. Oh, I I know one. Oh yeah, okay. Grover Schiltz was a wonderful English horn player and we were playing some baroque music and we had our our you know, baroque horns and stuff like that.
And he put something into his oboe and it came out like a terrible squawk and HE SAID, “I DON’T UNDERSTAND. I put it in straight and it came out crooked.” But you have to know her over. Speaking of oboe playing, there’s one quote about oboe playing uh from Yoel Gallenberger that I’ll never forget. And every time I see an oboe player playing, he said I’ll say it in German first. Oboe spielen macht nicht schön. You know, oboe player playing does not make someone beautiful. When you see someone playing the oboe, they sometimes have like the strangest uh expressions.
Uh it’s sometimes is so funny that it actually There’s this a couple of people their cheeks like completely blow like Dizzy Gillespie. And you know, you can’t when you’re having like a um television direct internet broadcast, you can’t have someone like that playing oboe. I mean, our oboe players for oboe players look pretty good, but it’s difficult. Oboe play Some of them look very strange. You know, horn players Julie, Julie, we just got a good excuse. Margaret says, “My dog ate my horn.” That’s a good one.
That’s a very good one. You could My dog ate my horn or, you know, whatever. Stefan, what’s your best excuse? Oh, hey, look who’s here. Happy birthday. Hey, boychick, how are you? Good. How are you? Happy birthday, Julie. Hey, look, here comes the next one. Michelle. Michelle. Hi. Hi. Michelle was texting me this morning. You acted like you didn’t know about this. Were you just pulling my leg? I’m a good actress. That’s it. I can’t love. Oh, look at this party. Happy birthday, Julie. Eric’s on the moon.
Julie, it looks like you’re in outer space, Eric. Eric, spaceman Eric. Eric, yeah, we’re sort of of There he is. Hey Ross, yay! It’s very good to see Hey guys. Eric. Hey. A little late TO THE PARTY. WE’VE GOT A LITTLE STAR TREK THEME FOR US. Here’s I like it. I like it. Looks good. Well, I’m feeling a little spacey. I don’t know about you guys. You know, every day is the same day. I don’t know what day of the week it is and You know, I get on this and it’s Who knows what time zone we’re in even here.
Nearly intergalactic time zone. Friday. Is it Friday? of wine A lot of wine drinking and then there’s coffee. Ooh, is Stefan you’re on your It’s a party and it’s horn hangout. I’m on my boat. Friday. I just change I just change my my positions every day. Good way to be. Oh, look where you are. Nice. All right. Yeah, but the thing is I think it’s perfect. Gail’s making me feel really bad because she’s the only one with a French horn in her hands. I know she’s holding a Gail’s got the horn.
There are a few others. Who’s done any practicing in the last I think it’s time. I think it’s time, guys. What do you What do you say? I hope someone is recording this. Can one of you get Somebody’s got to record this. All right. Radovan Radovan and Okay, there we go. Radovan’s getting his horn. All right. Not on F, right? I can’t find it. I can’t My valves don’t work. They don’t work. They’ve been in the case for over a year. That’s a terrible excuse. I lost Where did it go?
Let’s all start and let then Tim play alone. TIM TIM SO, I HOPE IF ANYONE’S ABLE TO film this, I want to know how it sounds because here it’s going to sound actually probably hideous. I don’t know. Julie, you can tell us how it sounds. Oh, sure. Julie has to conduct. Julie Julie has to conduct. is playing? Is it Is it like You can conduct. Like this. We did this the other day with the Curtis kids with Jeff for Jeff Lang and it was hysterical. It was a disaster.
It’ll be awesome. And who are we Who are we starting on? I think we’re going to go with Daryl. Okay. By the way, Michelle, nice to see you. I didn’t get to say hi yet. Hi. Okay. All right. Wait, wait, do we start on F? Yes or no? Okay. RF, yeah. Julie I know you mean concert pitch or you mean Shut up, Jones. Oh, what’s that? concert pitch Radovan Radovan is showing that you know that birthday for the horn players with the transposition. Put it away, that’s too hard.
That’s way too hard. That we do another time. Which we do that another All right, Nathaniel Nathaniel, your horn keeps disappearing. Oh, just in time. She’s just in time to the party. HEY. I JUST GOT HERE IN TIME. YAY. GOOD. We’re starting on an F sharp. Oh, no. What? F sharp? That was way too easy. F sharp that? An F sharp. Okay. No, an F F F and Julie’s conducting. Okay. I think Tim is going to conduct cuz I don’t see any horn in his hands.
No, okay. Do anything Do anything with your hands. You Why don’t you do the honors? Okay, yeah. We can We can play and have a glass of red wine in our hands. What are you going to play? What are we going to play anyway? Ring the bell then. Okay, wait. Okay, but the hats have got to go on, guys. The hats have got to go on. Stefan, where’s your Where’s your hair? Yeah, my hat. Okay. I’ve got my hat. Daniel, that’s a Your horn is doing really cool, wonderful things.
Eric, where’s your hat? Oh, look, you’ve got a Star Trek Jack. You This is mad. In lieu of In lieu of a hat, you know. OH, VERY GOOD. GOOD MAN. HEY. Well done. Empty water out first. Okay. Small tip. Years of experience. My horn’s all dry. It hasn’t been used in a couple of weeks, so I don’t think there’s any water in here. Handsome Tim, I know you’re still watching. Why didn’t you Can you Are you recording this for us? Fred, we we need this clip to play for Judy later on.
Just take it I need you guys Can you Wait, hello. There’s handsome Tim. Right, you can sing with us. Tim’s going to conduct. Oh, he’s gone. All right. All right, we ready? Stefan, Stefan, what’s he got His underpants. Wait a second. Alexanders are doing are doing custom-made underpants now. Oh my god. I feel like a bird. Tim Jones, give us the upbeat. What What are we actually playing? Happy birthday. You’re not playing anything, apparently. I’m not playing anything. No, you’re absolutely right. Okay, we’re ready. What are you actually going to play?
What do you want? Two, three, so let me go. Two. Yeah. You give it, Sarah. You give it. Go on, off you go. No, no, no, no. Come on, come on. Tim, you’ve got to do something for your supper. Yeah, but what are we playing? What are we playing? One, two, three is fine. I’ll just give you a bar of four. Here we go. What are we playing? Is it in four? It’s in three. It’s in three. One, two, three. One. Hey, what are we playing?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. GIVE ONE HEY, just give one, two. One, two. Okay. Yeah. Somebody started partying way before the rest of us. You may need to share or you maybe you have to start. READY? OKAY, READY? WE NEED WE NEED A BEAT. OKAY, READY? GO. ONE, TWO. That was great. How was that? How was that, you guys? Oh, speechless. Extraordinary. Never heard anything like it. You have to. Oh, there’s a cake. Oh, look, Julie. Oh, look, there’s a cake. Can you hold that for a second? Hold on.
Yeah, okay. Just the iPad. Okay, let’s see if it’s melting. Wait, I have one too. Look at what my coworkers gave me. Right. Oh. Uh-huh. Oh, LOOK AT THIS. OH, YUM. I think there was something very cute. I think I’ll come back. and strawberries time. I will come back. I promise I’ll be back. I’ll be back. Bye. Julie, are you going to blow out your candle? I am. Okay, there you go. But I’m going to make my wish to myself. Okay, make a wish. at this day and age.
Now, tell us what you wish. Nobody Nobody will tell. Oh, okay. I wished for good health for the world. I mean, I was a little spiritual in my wishes. Such a weird time. Just hoping that everyone stays well and that we find our way through to the other side of this mess. Yeah. Hopefully soon. And here, Ada wants to say hello also. She My little girl, you’re lucky. Are you eating the other 10 chocolate cakes? Oh, my god, that’s not a good thing for doggies. No.
Your cake Your cake tastes really good. Thank you so much. You melted melted one. Perfect. So, um Nathaniel, what was Julie like as a teacher? Tell us honestly. Amazing. What else do you think? She gave me all the right tools and I just had to put them to good work. Well, congratulations on your job. Thank you. May I introduce you to Nathaniel Seberschlag? Is that Seberschlag? You say it like Germans? Perfect. Perfect. Yes. Um Nathaniel is the new Well, actually pretty new. How long have you been there?
A year? I was there like two quarters of the season, three quarters of the season until we had to cancel. Yeah. Of the Cleveland Orchestra. So, and also a stu- student of Julie’s and I know you I just knew Julie would love to see you today. Of course. I always want to see Nathaniel. And Barb down on my downstairs right, I don’t know. There’s Barb is um is a low horn at the Met. Um colleague of Eric Where Where’s Eric? Eric, you guys have separated. Oh, there you are.
Oh, now you’re quiet. We are separated. I miss you, Barb. I miss you, too, Eric. And And all of you guys, this this is such a weird time, you know? To be sitting here twiddling our thumbs and and playing happy birthday, which is the best part of my day. You know, normally we we Yeah, normally we all get together. Um Michelle, Jen, Julie Pyland, and Share Uh I don’t know if I’m missing anybody, but we all get together on Julie’s birthday and celebrate it every year.
We find somehow we find time to get together. So, this is nice. I invited Julie into the chat. Julie, if you’re still watching, Julie, go and look at your Facebook Messenger. There’s the link. We want you to join us. So, get on over here, girl. Michelle We’re having a virtual birthday tonight. Did you just take your clothes off? No. I’m wearing my tuxedo. Well, it’s not the first time. Sorry. Okay. I don’t Oh. We’ll we’ll screen That was Wait, that was a tour how long I joined the orchestra, all right.
I was there. I sense a lawsuit in the air. Why did you have to go? I was just going to say Michelle’s gone. Oops. Tim’s out. No, I know how it works. Were you taking your clothes off, too? Who’s out? He’s gone. Wait, what? He’s gone. Huh? What? I’m still here. Can everybody hear me? We can. Good. Good. It sounds like you’re lying under your computer. Uh so, Michelle, you had just taken your clothes off to get back to that. You had your shirt on already.
I I only only just seen it. That’s why I thought you disappeared. Oh, okay. No, no. No. I’m representing and I have Well, the next time I see Julie, I’ll take my clothes off. Next time I see Julie, I’ll take the clothes off. Have Have you Did you stop laughing at all day? Did you hear what Tim just said, Julie? Of course I did, and I did hear what I just said. Oh, I missed that. Oh, I see. I got to go on these shows, by the way.
That was the best part of my iPad all day. Well, the day is young. The day is young. You never know what might be coming here on the iPad. I mean, people are people are Yeah, everyone is saying happy birthday. Saying and Hannah Horn wants to know why do so many horn players have dogs? Okay. the vet? Because they always go on the hunt. Yes. Thank you, Larry. Gail, why do horn players always have dogs? Cuz they need to get out and exercise, right? That was my first dog.
When you really don’t really want to play the horn, you can just pet the dog. You know. Be nice to the dog. Instead of yourself. You should but you should Dinka always says you have to be nice to yourself, right Dinka? I’ll be nice to my dog. You know. That dog was a therapy dog. I I’ll be I’ll be nice to Andrew if he keeps that hat on. When I would be before my cats died, when I would get mad, I would throw my horn on the bed and then I would lay down next to it and my cat would jump on my back and like pet my hair with its paw.
It was the sweetest thing ever. It was like, you don’t suck. You’re okay. I was like, Oh, she made it. Look. Hey Julie. Hey Julie P. Hey Julie. Good job. Put it on. Take Take your shirt off. Put it on. We Tim won’t mind. always says you have to be nice to yourself, right Dinka? Yeah. Someone’s got their Facebook going at the same time again. I’ll be nice to Andrew if he keeps that hat on. Well, we’re in a time warp. That was Julie P. Julie Julie P welcome from the Met from the Met in New York.
So nice to see you. One of Julie’s one of the girls. Thanks for having me. Happy birthday to Julie. Time warp. I like that Eric, that we’re in a time warp, says he. With the Yeah. With the Star Trek. I know. Barb, one of your students is watching, Catherine Woo. Oh, she’s awesome. Yeah, she’s um 13, just came from Taiwan. And had started with me a year ago and she’s already doing very well. Played the Beethoven sonata and all this other stuff. She’s yeah. Hi Catherine.
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I can’t even play. So, it’s pretty good. Oh, Julie, it’s nice to see you. Look at everybody. It’s so nice. We’re in a time warp. Oh, look. Hello. I’ll see you all next time, Max. Oh, wow. They’re coming to steal the Nutella. No, we are not. With finger. Finger in the pie. Mine’s all gone, Jen. So, and Julie, you want some cake? Give me a bite. Uh both of you. Both of you. It’s very nice. Oh, Stefan’s Oh, he’s licked the bowl. Oh, it’s gone.
Oh. Did you try out these virtual backgrounds yet? It’s my dream. It’s very It’s very It’s very cool. Oh, Andrew, I I brought this in your honor. I didn’t have any happy birthday um napkins, so I brought you that in the honor of Andrew Bain. Thank you very much. You know, I must tell this joke about Andrew reminds me of a joke. Andrew’s hat someone that’s a trick or treat and someone rings the doorbell and he and they come dressed as a pirate and they say, “Oh, you’re a pirate.
And where are your buccaneers?” And he says, “UNDERNEATH MY BUCKING HAT.” THAT’S REALLY GOOD. DEAR Hangout audience, don’t try that joke at home. Well, Sarah, Sarah is a special Good to see you all. All right, guys. Sarah, I’ve got to go, unfortunately, but Julie Julie Julie if you can hear me you know we I’m sure everybody else is on for the same reason. Because you’re a special you’re special character, you’ve made an lasting impression of on us all. I wish you happy birthday. It’s so great to see all these other guys on there that I know and love.
Just have a great birthday, Sarah. Thanks for hosting it. I’ve got to go cuz I’ve got to see my two kids who are going to bed. Lovely to see you. Radovan Inker, as you know, I always love you guys. Take care of everybody. Bye-bye. Bye, Jay. Bye. Wiggy, you’re going to miss the dancing. I think I’ve got to go, too. Yeah. Oh, look. Yeah, Daniel, you’ve got happy birthday, Julie, right behind you. I’ve only just seen that. Close up. Oh, now we’ve got close ups. Cool.
Oh, wee. How long have you been traveling to all these times? I’m traveling. It’s in purple, this angle. Yes, it is for a reason. Oh, yes, you know. Thank you. Are you a purple person? I am. Aw. Then have a have a purple onesie. I would love to. Well, what’s going on? Is handsome Tim doing all sorts of fancy stuff with the with the with the with the screens? I’m trying. It’s tricky. I’m trying. Where is everybody gone? Did they leave? Someone left, no. No, not allowed to leave because we’ve still got the dancing to come and we need a selfie and Tim’s unfortunately missed it, but I’m sure we’ve got him in the in the happy birthday.
So, um yeah. Tim, can I can we have everybody back? I’m missing them all. I mean, it’s nice everybody watching the stream can see everybody at the same time. Okay. We’re in a big grid. We’re in a big grid. Okay, can you put us all back in the big grid now so we can see each other? I can see nine people. I can see I can see four. six people. All I can see is four. I can see everybody. Gail can see everybody. She’s good. I got 11.
I don’t know. How do you have 11? 14. No, I see Jen. But Tim, all I can see are All I can see are close-ups. Hey, now I’ve got Stefan on close-up. That’s great. 14. Go up to the upper corner and hit the grid. He’s good. Tim, can I Can we have everybody back? I can’t see him. I think you have to put it off. You have to go up to the upper corner and hit the grid. Oh, sorry. We have no idea. You go up to the upper right and scroll back and forth, but I can see only six at a time.
I like Andrew’s hat though. That’s so cool. I got you back. I got you back. Everyone’s back. Thank goodness for that. Phew. Okay, right. So So, Julie, it’s birthday girl Birthday girl time again. Still here? Yeah, still here. Right. Julie, um are you not going to tell us what you wished for your birthday? Health, I hope. I did I did tell you, but I’ll tell you again. Then tell us again. I didn’t Tim Jones was telling a telling a story. I was wishing for good health for the world.
I got a very got one very global on this one. We make it through to the other side of this pandemic and have some fun again. Julie P, what are you guys doing right now? Who? Pardon? I GOT YOU BACK. I got you back. Everyone’s back. Thank goodness for that. Phew. Okay. Did I just repeat myself? No. No, I think she’s watching. It’s just like a couple minutes behind. Someone’s watching. Someone’s got their Facebook on at the same time, which is very naughty. Let me just adjust the satellite over here.
Eric, your hand is disappearing when you put it back there. Oh, okay. Your hand Sorry, the satellite over here. Even your voice sounded like robot like there for a second. Oh, yeah, you’re right. Uh Julie’s microphone is off. That’s why she can’t That’s why we can’t hear her. My microphone is off. No, no, Julie P. Julie P. Now we got you. Julie, is your mic off? Hey, I don’t think so. No answer means yes. Okay, I just I just wanted to make sure everyone was included, but I think I’m I’m I’m I’m scaring you more than Oh, now it’s off again.
Never mind. Okay, I I I was keeping it off cuz I didn’t want to have background noise for you. Aw, I we wanted to know how you are. Where are you? How you doing? Thank you. I’m fine. I’m in New York. So, I’m going to text Just go to text as well. Yeah, what does the text say? I’m going to mute myself again. I think Eric and Stefan are going to see each other soon out there in outer space. No, we’re flying in different directions. It’s like Oh.
Hey, Stefan, give me your coordinates. Give me your coordinates. It’s very cool. Have you Have you worked out how to do this? Like Like And where are they all? I want to I want I want to go somewhere as well. I’m going somewhere now. I feel like I have a laser That’s where I want to What What’s that red thing? I think it’s the balloon. Okay, something Something for you horn guys watching. You probably complete Everyone’s probably switched off by now. Look at this. Ooh. Oh, nice.
Very German of you, Sarah. It’s a horn pret bretzel. A horn bretzel. There we go. Okay. Right. That’s enough of that. All right. Julie, I know everyone everyone has to sort of go. Um but but there was I wanted to play you a song and just to say absolutely happy birthday. Or does anyone have any more nice stories of Julie they want to tell? Aw. Silent night. This is my shmata. The piece of jewelry I wear. I had it since middle school. I bring it everywhere.
I have a nice story it? I have a nice story of Julie. I remember this just one of probably very um many many many nice stories of Julie that I could could probably tell you. But one was um I I was playing Dvorak 9 with an with the Juilliard Orchestra. And I played principal and uh I bleeped the the high B in the end of the last movement. And I was walking across the plaza afterwards and I was just like devastated and just so mad at myself and I couldn’t even believe it.
And I saw Julie and she was like, “Oh, did you crack the money note?” And I was like, “I did I oh.” And I just started crying and she was like, “But did you really crack it? Was it big? Was it like brave? Did you go for IT? AND DID YOU CRACK that effing money note?” And I was like, “YEAH, I DID.” AND SHE was like, “What are you doing?” I was like, “I love you so much.” Thank you for teaching me to be brave and to laugh and I love you dearly and we all love you so much and you’re amazing.
Aw, that’s so lovely. Well, I think actually at that point, I think Julie, you’ve got another party coming up there, haven’t you? Yes, my girls and I have a 9:00 p.m. Zoom party. Well, they can’t top this one, I tell you, with hearts and glasses. And I think for the last few seconds of your party, we need to we need to get get back in our party gear. That’s right, Gail, get your cup’s hat on. Get those glasses going. That’s Stefan, get your hair on. That’s right.
Stefan, oh, you’ve got your hair on. Wow, Andrew. I think Dear Horn Hangout friends, we’re having a little Horn Hangout break now. Don’t be too sad, but to be honest, we need a little break. Handsome Tim and I are we need to sort out all the archive and anything. We’re starting again next Wednesday with a trumpet event. And don’t all switch off of that, it’s going to be incredibly cool. And we need you there because you have to teach the trumpet world how to use the live chat.
So, um we’ll be back on Wednesday, and after that, Stefan Dorr will be back giving us all his wisdom, as will everyone in this room right now. Get the candles about but but for now, keep a look out on the Horn Hangout page, and um and we’ll give you all the information there when the next one is and where you need to be. Have a great weekend. Stay home, stay safe. And now, I want you to celebrate with us the wonderful Julie Landsman. Here we go.
Can you hear it, someone? There’s a lot There’s a lot of the intro to keep going. Nice move, Nathaniel. Thank you. Stefan, take my knee. Oh, I got I even got my speedy wonder glasses. Where is the hamster? Oh. I thought that hamster was A HAMSTER CHILD. OKAY. STAR MR. STAR CAPTAIN KIRK HAS LEFT the room. Captain Kirk out. All right, so here we go. Oh, it’s Here we go. Got it. Ready? Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Okay. This is what I will make you do another verse, but Julie, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday Julie for March. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.
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