Articles by John Ericson
Indexed in reverse chronological order.
Clevenger on How Many Auditions, and How Many it Took Me
PUBLISHED: June 13, 2013, John Ericson

The horn world has been abuzz for the past few weeks with the retirement of Dale Clevenger from the Chicago Symphony, who served as Principal Horn from 1966-2013. Of the interesting links and articles I have seen among the more interesting to me was a by a retired psychologist in Chicago, Gerald Stein. He is [...]
In Praise of the Olds F Alto
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2013, John Ericson

Annually our church has a retreat over Memorial Day weekend up at a camp in the mountains near Prescott. Most years I have brought along a mellophone for praise band duties. However, this year I decided to take along a slightly more compact Olds F alto. This instrument is similar to an Altonium (described here) [...]
Why go to the IHS Symposium? Check out the Sessions and Master Classes
PUBLISHED: May 23, 2013, John Ericson

As part of a cleaning project at home I stumbled across my folder from the 1983 International Horn Workshop in Charleston, IL. It occurred between the junior and senior years of my college study (I was then a student at a small college in Kansas) and it was one of those inspirational life events that [...]
Letters from my Teachers
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2013, John Ericson

Since the end of school I have been working on a major cleaning project at home, time to get rid of some things and get reorganized. Among the projects accomplished was reducing and repacking better some stored boxes of letters. I reduced the total volume by about a third (junk mail? cancelled checks?) but did [...]
Why You Might Need Dimes
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2013, John Ericson
Clevenger on How Many Auditions, and How Many it Took Me

The horn world has been abuzz for the past few weeks with the retirement of Dale Clevenger from the Chicago Symphony, who served as Principal Horn from 1966-2013. Of the interesting links and articles I have seen among the more interesting to me was a by a retired psychologist in Chicago, Gerald Stein. He is [...]
In Praise of the Olds F Alto

Annually our church has a retreat over Memorial Day weekend up at a camp in the mountains near Prescott. Most years I have brought along a mellophone for praise band duties. However, this year I decided to take along a slightly more compact Olds F alto. This instrument is similar to an Altonium (described here) [...]
Why go to the IHS Symposium? Check out the Sessions and Master Classes

As part of a cleaning project at home I stumbled across my folder from the 1983 International Horn Workshop in Charleston, IL. It occurred between the junior and senior years of my college study (I was then a student at a small college in Kansas) and it was one of those inspirational life events that [...]
Letters from my Teachers

Since the end of school I have been working on a major cleaning project at home, time to get rid of some things and get reorganized. Among the projects accomplished was reducing and repacking better some stored boxes of letters. I reduced the total volume by about a third (junk mail? cancelled checks?) but did [...]






