Friday, August 13, 2010

Horn Player

I guess I have always had a "thing" for horn players. 

My first sexual experience, and what an experience it was, was with a horn player I played with in Junior High band. I later moved to Chicago following a horn player I had met while studying at Tanglewood. Once in Chicago I fell in love with the horn player who I have spent the last 15+ years with, Michelle Lee Duchow Pettit.

Most people call her instrument the French Horn even in Mexico people call it Corno Frances. As far as I know there is nothing "French" about the French Horn so I call it a horn and she is a horn player.

We met at DePaul University in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago during the fall of 1993. She was beginning her Junior year and I was transferring to DePaul after completing my Freshman year of college at North Texas (91-92) and following a year (92-93) of playing on 2 different cruise ships in the Caribbean. 

At the beginning of the school year all of the interested music majors got together to sort out chamber music groups. Michelle had been playing in a brass quintet that had lost a trumpet player. I volunteered, we started rehearsing together and 6 months later I asked her out on our 1st date. She was sweet (or dumb) enough to say, "Yes" and the rest is history.

Yesterday evening at the Museo Iconografico del Quijote in downtown Guanajuato, just down the street from the Teatro Juarez, I was entertained by the Quinteto de Maderas ZEPHYRUS. This museum is a beautiful venue and the music Thursday evening was wonderful.

I agree with the comments that I always hear after people hear Michelle playing with ZEPHYRUS. "It's nice to actually hear Michelle play." There is not much for her to do in the orchestra during the current monarchy.

It's always nice to sit back and hear some good horn playing. 

Did I mention I have a thing for horn players?

ZEPHYRUS
Helen Louise Wolff. flute
Hector Eduardo Fernandez Purata. oboe
Hugo Manzanilla Victoria. clarinet
Michelle Lee Duchow Pettit. horn
Alan Monahan. bassoon

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  1. We had a great time at both shows. Thanks for the fabulous night!

    -Mike and Sam

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  2. Jason,

    I was married to a horn player for 20 years. Great instrument, good person, but not a particularly good marriage. Glad to hear you're having a great time!

    Totally off the subject of horns to bassoons. I've been looking for an old bassoonist friend for years. That's how I found your blog, looking for Alan Monahan in a Google search. I'm not sure my friend is the bassoonist in your photo (although I doubt there are many bassoon playing Alan Monahans in the world), but if you still know him, I'd be grateful if you'd let him know that fellow bassoonist, Fran Hackmann from the New School of Music in Philadelphia, would love to connect. He's an old and dear friend and I'm sad to have lost contact.

    Thanks so much for your help!

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