A horn star gets pranked by an orchestra

A horn star gets pranked by an orchestra

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norman lebrecht

October 27, 2018

William Caballero, principal horn of the Pittsburgh Symphony, was rehearsing a Mozart concerto with the Camerata Notturna when this happened:

The conductor is David Chan. You see it here first.

Comments

  • Ted says:
    October 27, 2018 at 7:02 am

    This has already been done, more than five decades ago! Here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHWnFJ4_61U

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  • Dave says:
    October 27, 2018 at 12:04 pm

    I’m looking forward to their Strauss.

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    • Paul Johnston says:
      October 28, 2018 at 1:16 am

      Nah, the Strauss can wait. (Well, no, I picked it up a couple of weeks ago.) But—oh man—Bill was amazing in the PSO/Honeck’s Brahms 2 earlier in this new season! And that makes Strauss just seem trivial. Maybe Bill has achieved something like Nirvana: you cease to be merely an excellent horn player and become one with the Art. Well, um, something like that.

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  • steven holloway says:
    October 27, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    I’m quite sure I saw this on YouTube first.

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  • Altfloete says:
    October 27, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    The conductor is David Chan.

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  • Robert Holmén says:
    October 27, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    Well, at least it wasn’t another joke about his name.

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  • Just sayin' says:
    October 27, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    But it’s the wrong words…!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_BFM_wJMU

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  • Bruce says:
    October 27, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    Well that was fun.

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  • Timothy Reeves says:
    October 27, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    That was nice of them.

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