Music & Conversation with David Wetherill, hornMusic & Conversation with David Wetherill, hornhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/97492Union Maccrate2010-03-03T16:15:002010-03-03T18:00:00
March 3, 4:15PM
Union Maccrate
On Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:15 PM, the Department of Music presents Music and Conversation with David Wetherill performing on the French horn and natural horn. This event will be held in MacCrate Recital Hall, Union Building. Admission is free.
David Wetherill
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On Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:15 pm, the Department of Music present Music & Conversation with David WetherilI, horn, in collaboration with Charles Abramovic, piano. Mr. Wetherill will be performing on both the natural horn and the modern horn, with a demonstration of techniques for achieving melodic effect, as well as musical and emotional content. He will take things more or less chronologically, from early calling practices, the hunt, etc., then Haydn and Mozart, moving on to modern times. Maybe even the horn in Space!
David Wetherill, long-time first-horn player with the Philadelphia Orchestra, began his professional career as Principal Horn with the renowned opera house, "Teatro alla Scala" in Milan, Italy, playing the greatest operas with the finest singers and conductors in the world.
In 1976, Pierre Boulez asked Mr. Wetherill to come to Paris to work with the "Ensemble InterContemporain," as a founding member of that cutting-edge chamber orchestra. During this period, he performed literally dozens of premieres by the leading contemporary composers of the day, including Berio, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Boulez, and Messiaen.
At the invitation of Maestro Eugene Ormandy, Mr. Wetherill returned to Philadelphia, where he played for nearly 30 years. Now retired from full time performing, he is active with teaching and conducting, and occasionally performing on the horn if the stars line up properly.
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