It’s time for February’s 20 questions on the 20th!
Here’s Bill Caballero, Principal Horn of The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra:
- Started playing horn at age:
- 9
- First private teacher?
- Mr Dunnam. A trombone player.
- Favorite composer?
- Prokofiev
- Favorite piece?
- El Niño, John Adams.
- Most memorable concert?
- 10/89 Mahler 7th with Maazel in Warsaw Poland.
- Most embarrassing moment on stage?
- Playing 1st [Wagner]tuben on Bruckner 7 after working out my abs. Haven’t worked out since.
- If you could not play the horn, what other instrument would you choose?
- Pipe Organ.
- Favorite excerpt?
- One I played well!
- Least favorite excerpt?
- Ravel piano concerto in G.
- Mountains or Beach?
- Mountains
- Cats or Dogs?
- Both!!
- F horn or C horn?
- F please!
- Treble clef or Bass clef?
- Treble
- Would you rather play Ravel’s Piano Concerto OR Shostakovich 5?
- SHOSTAKOVICH!!
- Beer or wine?
- Both!!
- On the leg or off the leg?
- Off the keg, I mean off the leg.
- Kopprasch or Kling?
- Kopprasch
- Would you rather be stranded on a desert island with a saxophone or trumpet player?
- Trumpet player. (They’re funnier)
- Favorite movie score?
- The Matrix and the new Star Trek.
- “Stars and Stripes” or “Washington Post”?
- Stars and Stripes!!