1. All those French horns and violins? 2. Andrew Lloyd Webber has watched previews for minor tweaking, things like adding French horns and oboes in spots. 3. In its emphasis on clarinets, French horns and a tuba, his music was unusual for jazz. 4. On this occasion, he has glued trumpets, French horns and other brass instruments to brown linen canvas and dripped thick, waxy strands of color over them. 5. So in exactly eight measures he engineered a tremendous upward scamper by flutes, oboes, clarinets, French horns, trumpets and strings. 6. There are cornets disguised as snakes, French horns with yards of tubing wrapped together like a weaving and early bassoons as tall as a person. 7. With grainy rocks of sound in its tutti sections and beautiful playing from solo English horn, French horns and percussion, it was a monument itself. 8. So Mahler felt the weaker sounds of strings and woodwinds had to be reinforced to balance the stronger brass instruments like French horns. 9. Violins, violas, cellos, flutes, trumpets, oboes, French horns, tubas and harps will be represented. |