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Reader Mini-Poll: What is your Favorite Slow Movement from the Mozart Horn Concerti?

PUBLISHED: January 28, 2012, Bruce Hembd
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Three of the four concertos for horn by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have lovely slow movements that rank highly among my favorite, all-time classical compositions. Excluding the 1st concerto (which has no slow movement to speak of) what is your favorite? Take our informal poll at the bottom of this page and view the live results [...]

Tips on Auditioning Horns, Part I: Carl Geyer, Paxman 25, Patterson Custom and Finke Americus

PUBLISHED: January 18, 2012, Bruce Hembd

My main agenda for the Southwest Horn Conference (SWHC) – besides hearing concerts and talking shop – was to play on as many horns as possible. It had been a long while since I had an opportunity to play on so many different instruments, all in one convenient location. I was positively giddy at the prospect. But [...]

The Year that was 2011: A Traffic Overview and the Top 35 Articles of Interest

PUBLISHED: December 7, 2011, Bruce Hembd

Last month, Horn Matters hit a new high for web site traffic and overall, our readership is trending upwards. With this in mind and looking ahead to the new year, now is a good time to look back and see what has been going on in terms of web site traffic at Horn Matters.  To accurately monitor web traffic [...]

7 Tactics to Develop Sight-Reading

PUBLISHED: November 10, 2011, John Ericson

One skill we all know we need is the ability to sight-read music well. Some people are better than others at this. Traditionally part of the answer to the question of how to help sight reading is it will get better over time, but there is more to it than that. This is a topic [...]

Thoughts on ‘Quality’ and an Overview of Trusted Brands in French Horns

PUBLISHED: November 9, 2011, Bruce Hembd

As someone who works in marketing and advertising, I respect the value and power of word-of-mouth opinion. While big-name consumer brands – like McDonald’s and Sony - manipulate popular opinion and end-purchasing through detailed marketing strategies, the same is not completely true in the much smaller universe of horns and musical instruments. I doubt that in our lifetime for example, [...]

From the Who’s Who Survey: 14 New Comparison Charts in a New Report

PUBLISHED: October 26, 2011, Bruce Hembd

UPDATED: Weds. PM – the link to the original report has been fixed. * * * Crunching the numbers from the report Name Recognition, Influence and Age Groups in the Online (French) Horn Community, another layer of the onion is peeled away for us to look at. Survey takers were asked a simple Yes or [...]

‘Answers’ to the Names on the Who’s Who Survey

PUBLISHED: October 24, 2011, Bruce Hembd

Here are online resources for the names used in the Who’s Who survey - in a single list. Radek Baborák Andrew Bain Dale Clevenger Stefan Dohr Annamia Eriksson Ronald Janezic Richard King Frank Lloyd Philip Meyers Jennifer Montone Marie Luise Neunecker Marc Papeghin Steve Park David Pyatt Arkady Shilkloper James Sommerville James Thatcher Richard Todd Tom [...]

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on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.