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Review: Two New Horn-Related Blogs

PUBLISHED: July 1, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Jonathan West and Bruce Richards get their bloggity-blog on. Two new and noteworthy horn-related blogs have appeared on the radar that are worth pointing out. The first is called Horn Thoughts and is authored by Jonathan West. The description in the title describes it best: One of my passions is music, I play the french [...]

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Blogging & blogs

New Web Site for Salt River Brass

PUBLISHED: June 30, 2009, Bruce Hembd

A Phoenix area institution gets a new web site. Founded by its musicians in January 1988, the Salt River Brass has been entertaining audiences in the East Valley of Phoenix for over twenty years. Since Pat Sheridan and Sam Pilafian have gotten onboard, the band has taken leaps and bounds forward. Next season, they are [...]

Random Monday: Phoenix Symphony Speaks Out and a Revolution

PUBLISHED: June 29, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Blog errors, the Phoenix Symphony speaks out, and Bill Eddins. Phoenix Symphony responds at Musical America Last week, Drew McManus at Adaptistration posted an interesting opinion on the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra’s response to 6/5/09 piece by Dmitri Drobatschewsky published at the Musical America web site. In their statement, the PSO asserts that the board, management, [...]

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Phoenix

The Ego-Driven Music Teacher: Good or Bad? (II)

PUBLISHED: June 26, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Continued from Part I The ego-driven approach to music instruction reminds me of the used car salesman whose opening sale pitch was that their company sold thousands of cars each month. He rattled on and on to me with successful sales quotes and impressive statistics. Finally, he ended with: I want YOU to walk off [...]

The Ego-Driven Music Teacher: Good or Bad? (I)

PUBLISHED: June 25, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Teaching — more art than science? I occasionally lurk — read, but do not participate in — the various horn discussion groups. Interesting topics come up that in turn inspire blog topics. An underlying subtext that appears every now-and-then is ego-driven authority and opinion. Some teachers or players may quantify their views with statements like [...]

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Teachers

A Survey on French Horn Accuracy

PUBLISHED: June 24, 2009, Bruce Hembd

A survey on accuracy. Arizona State University doctoral candidate Nathan Stark has embarked on an ambitious project. It is a research survey related to accuracy on the French horn. It is a thought-provoking survey whose end results in tandem (presumably) with a dissertation may be of great value to the horn world. It is an [...]

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Teachers

French Horns in ToonTown

PUBLISHED: June 23, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Photos from Disneyland. In the area of Disneyland called ToonTown, there is a fun fountain in the central plaza with a few funny horn-related sculptures. Here are a few close-up pictures: Below is an embedded medallion on the sidewalk surrounding the fountain. Like the photo above, I am not sure if it represents a horn [...]

John Ericson & Bruce Hembd
on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.