John Ericson, 07/29/2010
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A link to an article on the Techdirt site, “RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales” caught my attention as it lays out some truth clearly on the earnings of musicians in relation to recordings. In short, they don’t make much. They cite a statistic that “for every $1,000 [...]
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The Deadliest Horn Part
I was recently given a copy of volume 1, number 1 (February, 1971) of The Horn Call and in it there is a most interesting item on a work that proved deadly for the first horn. Max Hess tells a most interesting story about Friedrich Gumbert [sic] and Oscar Franz: “In the first performance of [...]
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Nationalism and the traditional French style, II
Continued from Part I In most textbooks I encounter, Nationalism – as a movement in Western music history - has a beginning and an end. It is a period spanning roughly from the late 19th-century to the mid 20th-century. For about 100 years or so, a number of great composers — even the ultra-conservative Johannes [...]
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The Secret to the High Range: Teeth
One topic I mention to people in conversation periodically is that of trumpet players and dental modifications. I know to a horn player that thought is pretty stunning, that players might intentionally modify their teeth, but actually there has been some thought about this for years and years in the trumpet community. What it seems [...]
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Nationalism and the traditional French style, I
Lucien Thévet (1914 – 2007) was one of the last practitioners of a unique style of horn playing and recently, some samples of his playing have surfaced on YouTube. The video, which is audio-only taken from a scratchy Decca Records disc, exemplifies a style of playing that dated roughly from the late-19th century to the [...]
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Random Monday: Back in business
Doing business At My Viable Content, an example set of some nicely designed business cards with a French horn theme. Titanic horn From the Calgary Beacon: In Clive Cussler’s classic Raise the Titanic! his protagonist discovers a French horn on the ocean floor which is later confirmed to have belonged to one of the Titanic’s [...]
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IHS Brisbane 2010, Part VII: The Final Concerts and More
As noted at the end of the previous post, I was off to the banquet at about 1:30. It was a very nice meal with a number of notables present, including in particular Barry Tuckwell and also the niece of Dennis Brain. The food was excellent and it was a nice time to celebrate. Time [...]
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