![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beitmalkhut.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/vernereyholds2-500x691.jpg?ssl=1\" "\\"Verne")
<\/a>Today’s Kaddish is one horn pedagogue Verne Reynolds<\/a> might have appreciated: once again I was backstage at the opera in a loud stairwell with only iTalk, a recording app that has no gain control, so I had to play “Kaddish” sotto voce<\/em> the whole way through.<\/p>\nVerne Reynolds spent most of his career as a horn prof at Eastman, and I almost went there to study with him. From the horror stories I’ve heard about his tyrannical teaching, it might have been just as well that I went elsewhere. Then again, where I ended up for grad school was no picnic, either.<\/p>\n
Still, I count Verne Reynolds as an important teacher. His fiendishly difficult 48 Etudes<\/em>\u00a0were the centerpiece of my studies with Dr John Deal at the University of North Dakota when I studied with him during my high school years. A trumpet player, Dr Deal didn’t\u2014I think\u2014fully appreciate how hard these etudes were to play on horn! But that turned out to be a very good thing for me. Since Dr Deal didn’t think it should be any big deal for me to play them, I didn’t either, so I worked my ass off, and those beastly etudes gave me rich rewards in the years since.<\/p>\n To this day, when I need to whip my technique into shape, I turn to the 48 Etudes<\/em>.<\/p>\n I even played a few of them for a wedding once\u2014it was a solo horn gig, and I mean solo. <\/em>Unaccompanied horn. Just me. Can you say “naked”? The other problem is that there isn’t a whole huge amount of solo horn literature, and I had something like forty-five minutes to fill. Perhaps it was desperation that reminded me that some of the etudes are almost catchy, so I programmed them.<\/p>\n I wish I could report that the bride with the funny taste is still happily married the guy with the indulgent taste, but this was a mercenary gig. The paycheck I got after the ceremony was the last time I ever saw her name, which I’ve long since forgotten.<\/p>\n A kaddish for the guy who wrote the etudes that keep us horn players humble: Verne Reynolds was 84 when he died on 28 June 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A kaddish for the guy who wrote the etudes that keep us horn players humble: Verne Reynolds was 84 when he died on 28 June 2011. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaddish-in-two-part-harmony","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}