John Ericson
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The Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin and Crazy Horn Notations in Wagner
One excerpt horn players learn is the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. I was recently working on this with a young student as it was requested on a local youth symphony audition, and it occurred to me that this excerpt is one that has a lot of mystery associated with it. The main question [...]
Where the Horn Matters Fans Are
A number of things have been enjoyable for Bruce and myself in working on Horn Matters, and one in particular is knowing that we do have a group of readers that certainly follow us regularly. One block of those readers are following Horn Matters through Facebook which provides a very nice feed for our content. [...]
Hornmasters: Schuller on Right Hand Position
The second chapter of Horn Technique by Gunther Schuller is on the topic of tone production and the first aspect of tone production discussed is that of right hand position. He considered it a very essential aspect of what it is to produce a characteristic sound on the horn. The manner in which the instrument [...]
Longevity and the Horn Player
Arizona has a regional IHS newsletter, Horn on the Range. The area representative recently asked area horn professors for their thoughts on the topic of longevity, as in playing the horn for many years. A version of my answer to this question is now posted as the “Tip of the Month” in The IHS Online, [...]
A First Visit to the Musical Instrument Museum
On Sunday I was able with other Arizona State faculty take a special tour of the Musical Instrument Museum which just opened on April 24. This huge new museum (75,000 square feet of exhibition space!) is breathtaking and needs to be on the must see list of every musician or lover of music who visits [...]
Hornmasters: Farkas on Right Hand Position
Most active horn teachers have read the Farkas book at some point but mostly not recently. One thing that you may have missed was that Farkas described a “new method” for the right hand in the bell, one that actually I suspect few use literally exactly the way he describes. I base this statement not [...]
The Nashville Symphony and Video of the Flood of 2010
As a former member of the Nashville Symphony I have been watching with interest for coverage on the major flood this past week. When I started seeing photos it was easy to see that the damage is quite extensive; it was for me especially startling to see photos of the damage inside the Opryland Hotel [...]
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