John Ericson, 09/02/2010
Online Practice Tools
I had recently noted that I had seen students with a metronome app on their phones and recently also saw a link to Metronome Online. This is, not surprisingly, an online metronome that you can access from a computer or I believe any Internet capable device. It has all the standard marks and also generates [...]
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A Summer to Remember—1983; An Interview with Bruce Richards
Bruce Richards recently wrote in his site Living the Dream of “Four Summers That Changed My Life.” I was particularly interested to read this as I was there for one of them! That summer was 1983 and we were both students of David Wakefield at the Aspen Music Festival. The previous summer I had also [...]
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Year One for Horn Matters!
Today Horn Matters reaches a major milestone. One year ago, John and I launched this site. Here are some statistics from that date to today: About 106,000 unique visitors About 35,000 are returning visitors Over 400,000 page views Average time on site = 4 minutes, 40 seconds Average pages read = 4.69 34% of visitors [...]
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From the Mailbag: A Horn Curriculum
A question came in from a reader who is enrolled in a horn pedagogy class, and I asked if I could answer it publically as I think the answer might be of some general interest out there, a request he was happy to grant. Cutting in a ways into the original E-mail he notes that [...]
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Silence of the Clams; A Tribute to Lichtenstein
No, not the country… This story is about artist Roy Lichtenstein, who is probably best-known for his works resembling enlarged comic book panels. Typically, these panels capture a random, dramatic moment – a time capsule within a larger story that we do not completely understand. This setting can activate the imagination and take on many [...]
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Random Monday
Horn student injured in crosswalk School is back in session and we should all be a little more careful when driving in school zones. Poor Trevor was hit by a van – it broke his jaw and his horn, but it sounds like he will recover. Too soon? Is it too soon to be thinking [...]
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Horns on the Recital I: Natural Horn
On my recital this year I wanted to play on a variety of horns and work through the story of the horn in Classical music. Pretty hard to do that without playing some natural horn! I had three natural horns available to me to try to use this year. As I noted in my most [...]
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