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YVES-ANDRE SCHAEFFER | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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My interests are quite varied.... I love classical music. This can be seen most by looking at my collection which witnesses the fact that I have collected all of the Symphonies and Concerti of Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and so on.. I am also very well on the way of being able to say the same for Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schostakovich, Dvorak, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Liszt (!!!). In most of these cases it's just one or two pieces that are missing ( like the 3rd piano concerti of Tchaikovsky ) that are preventing me from doing so. My favourite type of music, if you haven't gathered from the list above, is that of Eastern European / Russian and some of the German Romantic Composers. I especially love the sound of Russian Orthodox Music so I especially like music containing motifs from this source, and also the music of modern composers writing in that style, such as John Taverner, and Alfred Schnittke. I also play the Bb Trumpet, and have done so since the Christmas of 1992. About 3 years ago I changed my instrument to that of the Bb Cornet ( Basically the same thing ), and I enjoy it immensely. At the moment I am playing with the Bon Accord Brass Band of Aberdeen, in Scotland. I play in the 'B' Band Section. I also played at one point, in the West of Scotland Senior Schools Orchestra, which I thoroughly enjoyed participating in. I also play the Piano ( not as well as I would have hoped, but well enough ) to a reasonable standard. My finger span of a tenth does help though. For example I can play the C# Minor prelude by Rachmaninov, and am at the moment trying to arrange the first movement ( very successfully in fact! ) of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto for Piano Solo. My favourite instrument has got to be the 'Cello, especially in the Elgar 'Cello Concerto. Its rich and mellow tone is just wonderful in my opinion. Just listening to it makes me feel warm and happy inside....CELLO PLAYERS!!! Take note!... A Brass player actually saying that he feels a String instrument to be the best in the orchestra... Brass players would probably stone me for saying that, but its the way I feel, so, remember.... there are Brass players out there who are not to brash and full of themselves, to be able to appreciate the 'Cello. In fact... if I was able to do things again, I would take up the 'Cello! Revolutionary thoughts for a Brass player! My other interests ( excluding Medicine, of course ) include languages. Due to where I was born, I can speak German and French. Since my mother is British, and the fact that I grew up here for most of my present life, I am able to ( obviously ) speak fluent English. In the interim I also took up Italian, and can make myself understood to an Italian in their own language ( Now THAT takes some doing!! ), and out of curiosity, I took up private study of Russian last year ( Summer 1997 ), but I am still only doing the basics. |
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E-mail me at : yves_schaeffer@hotmail.com |