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I hope it's OK to publish the names of minors...
It's just a list of competition finalists in an international horn competition open to players ages 13 - 18.
Someone tell me if I should redact names (??) In this case, I don't see why their names should not be published...(??)

My granddaughter (horn player) is 13.
This is based on the submission of an unedited video of all three movements of Mozart 3 (K. 447) plus a difficult Gallay etude (after playing through the entire Mozart).

She's the 11:40...



International Horn Society annual convention/symposium international youth competition



I'm certain that her Dad and Mom both have passports, and all she has to show (herself, at her age) is proof of US citizenship.

You have every reason to be a proud, bragging grandpa. I am, too, so that makes it ok for everybody.

They only get ten minutes to play? Wow.

Mary Ann wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 5:09 pm They only get ten minutes to play? Wow.

That's all it takes to play those listed pieces.

Tonight is/are the final concerts of Interlochen Arts Camp's INTERMEDIATE Camp (shorter - mostly middle-school and younger high school students).

There are three ensembles performing at 6:30 P.M. EASTERN time, but my granddaughter's group (performing last) might (heck, I dunno...??) begin performing around an hour later.

Here is where the webcast link is located (I think...??)

https://www.interlochen.org/webcasts

Being ONLY interested in my own granddaughter (as well as not being particularly interested in listening to other ensembles perform "educational/graded" pieces, I screen-shot the program and cut off the first two ensembles' pieces...but (if anyone is actually interesting in seeing ALL THREE of their programmed pieces) here's the link to the full program:

https://www.interlochen.org/sites/defau ... S-7-14.pdf

Otherwise, here's what I screen-shot and pasted together...It appears as though my granddaughter is the Intermediate Camp's "horn queen".

I believe their instructors fill in seats where there are shortages (such as 4th horn)

I really feel privileged to (at this time of the year, when it's impossible for me to travel) be able to watch these live streams.




re: 96th season...
For those who know nothing of the culture/traditions of Interlochen:
Every summer - at Interlochen Arts Camp (formerly named "National Music Camp") - the top orchestra (HIGH school, not intermediate...later in the summer), the top band, the ballet students, and the entire harp studio perform a grand finale concert.
The concert ends with Franz Lizst's "Les Preludes", but - once that ends, and the rousing applause dies down (as with every other large ensemble concert - the "Interlochen Theme" (a small portion of Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony) is played to NO applause, and with everyone quietly leaving...
...but at the FINAL concert (after the Theme is played at the very end of the final concert - which ends the camp's season), the music director breaks their baton in two, and offers half to the concertmaster (principal violin) and half to the principal cello.
This has been going on (just exactly like this) for decades.
All of us - who've been a part of it - have either witnessed this from on stage or from the patron's thousands of seats at the Interlochen Bowl (the OLDER outdoor venue, which is NOT covered). There are actually obscure/hidden traditions-within-traditions...one being whereby the very exposed trill in the oboe solo (the Lizst piece) is fingered by the SECOND oboe player on the PRINCIPAL oboist's instrument - whilst the PRINCIPAL player blows into the instrument.
ex:

That’s great! You are justifiably proud!

known-to-all huge solo in Firebird...very well done...not quite Dale Clevenger...yet.

huge solo in Hanson 2/Interlochen Theme...same, but hard to discern as all three were playing it.

The Hanson is a (to die for / amazing) combination of a melody and a counter-melody...If Hanson had written his 2nd Symphony for band, the baritone horn and tenor sax players would always be trying to play the friggin' horn cues.

Hanson wrote this in a cabin at Interlochen, one summer:

She's tutoring older students in higher math to raise money for upcoming orchestra trip expenses.

This reminds me of her mother, who was teaching oboe students at age 14, and a couple of her little students were in regional state honor band chairs ahead of some of the symphony players' little students.

My daughter's own teacher was quietly amused.

Granddaughter, her Mom (not in the picture), and her other grandmother are up in Montreal now - for the international youth IHS society final competition round.

This is Frøydis Ree Wekre (c. age 82) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B8ydis_Ree_Wekre - who was (retired) co-principal of the Oslo Philharmonic. She had played piano and violin, and took up the horn at age 17. She's known for her teaching, and is one of those super-advocates of "free-buzzing". In the picture, she's gifting my granddaughter one of her mouthpipe buzzing things.

Her grandmother (whose full-time job for decades has been private horn instruction, has written an etude book that's popular, and teaches my granddaughter via zoom) reports that my granddaughter (and the boy who won the competition - who is also 13 years old) were the two strongest contestants, whereas the older contestants were not as strong.

Her local youth orchestra is headed on a trip to Germany and the Czech Republic next year (I've never seen the point of these super-expensive trips, which put hardships on parents, but whatever...) so this summer, she and her mom distributed a whole bunch of fliers and she and her mom are detailing cars, thus summer - until school starts again. They're heavily-booked (word-of-mouth) and - so far - they have raised about a third of the money.

If any of you live in the southern part (or any part of the Pittsburgh area - and would like your car detailed really well (both of them are over-the-top attention-to-detail people), I can hook you up.,

I also have a private youtube link to my granddaughter's actual competition performance in Montreal, if any of you are interested in that.

I’ve been thinking that these overseas trips for music festivals basically work as a filter to weed out lower and middle income families from band.

Glad to hear your family is working hard to put the money together. Hopefully they have another third done by the end of summer and can finish it off over the school year.

matt g wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:02 pm I’ve been thinking that these overseas trips for music festivals basically work as a filter to weed out lower and middle income families from band.

Glad to hear your family is working hard to put the money together. Hopefully they have another third done by the end of summer and can finish it off over the school year.

When my daughter (this young lady's mother) was in our local youth orchestra, one year the conductor/music director wanted to take them to Canada in the early spring (great risk of being snowed in / baggage handlers likely destroying several instruments), and I nixed that trip. The trip made no sense whatsoever to me, and about the only attraction was that they were going to go to the world's largest shopping mall...wtf? I later found out that the conductor's sweetie-pie lived there, so that explained the reason for the trip. The next year they decided to go to Italy, which also made no sense to me whatsoever. My daughter was headed off to Interlochen Arts Academy (for high school) anyway, and wrote a note to the orchestra explaining that my daughter wasn't going overseas at my expense until my own wife went overseas at my expense. I told my daughter that she would go to Europe for free with some other ensemble - most likely - within the next year or two, and that came to pass.

She took a three-hour exam, this morning, so she'll be skipping (typically) 9th grade geometry classes and taking (typically) 10th grade algebra II, this fall.

She's in the 8th grade.

I guess she'll be meeting some more new friends.

What are the next classes...?? ' typically

- pre-calculus
- calculus
- calculus II

...??

I guess those should last her through 11th grade...unless she tests out of another (after breezing through another textbook over one of the next summers)...??

I had some over achieving friends like that. (All but musically) The poor souls grew up to be successful and well balanced.

Two generations of elders are watching...

Super-smarts - sometimes - end up with issues.
She doesn't have tons of friends and isn't a social butterfly, but ☑ plays well with others

Here's after acing the test-out-of-geometry three-hour test (probably cheeseburger and fries...??)

Here she is again...
She's 14, involved in an all-girl troop in the Boy Scouts, still playing horn (finalist in the IHS international youth competition at age 13), playing a lot of trumpet, and here she is playing a piece of crap (pitched in F) that she built out of some hose, a trombone mouthpiece, and a fiberglass horn bell protector.

Mostly, she's an impressive (way beyond her so-called "grade level") scholar and reads/studies tons of non-fiction and fiction.
I'm particularly glad that she has a sense of humor, because (I believe) we've all read about some so-called "brilliant" children who end up with emotional problems.

link (if needed)
https://www.facebook.com/HoughtonHorns/ ... 4874392784

Random thought: never apologize for bragging about offspring, regardless of generation. Anyone who has gone through the tribulations of being a parent has earned the right to brag as they see fit.