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Highlights from Summer 2010

PUBLISHED: August 18, 2010, Bruce Hembd
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One thing about Horn Matters that I enjoy is the interaction. The comments sometimes take on a life on their own, providing deeper insights. Another thing I like is trying out new things as a developer and messing around with new features. If you put those two things together, we get this entry – a [...]

6 Survival Tips on Dealing with Criticism

PUBLISHED: August 13, 2010, Bruce Hembd

College is starting up again and for students new to college, this means a brand new environment and an unfamiliar horn teacher. As with anything new, there is a period of adjustment required. Declaring yourself as a collegiate major in music is a significant choice. It indicates that you intend on being a professional and [...]

11 Horn-tastic TV Themes

PUBLISHED: May 28, 2010, Bruce Hembd

With apologies to RSS readers (who need to click through to hear the audio), today’s post is a restoration of some files that were previously lost. Xena Warrior Princess – 1995 Odd meters, battle cries and strains of the Bulgarian women who were very popular at about the same time. Fantasy Island – Final Season [...]

3 Stages of Beginning Music Lessons

PUBLISHED: May 21, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Summer time is here – this is prime time for savvy music students to acquire music students of their own. This is a great thing to do, for profit and for personal learning. While the process of recruiting private students is fairly easy to figure out, the process of retention may be less obvious. In [...]

The Big Three Horn Concertos

PUBLISHED: February 28, 2010, John Ericson

One discussion horn teachers have over and over with students is that of trying to select works for recitals. Years ago in a lesson with Verne Reynolds he suggested that I perform one of what he called the “big three” concertos, and ultimately I studied two of them with him as a student at Eastman [...]

Two Low Brass Master Classes

PUBLISHED: February 25, 2010, John Ericson

Yesterday at Arizona State we had not one but two master classes with low brass guest artists, Joseph Alessi and Jason Ham. First up was Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic. After a short, great performance with piano he worked with two students. The one pull away comment I took from him [...]

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Two More Horn Player Tricks

PUBLISHED: January 9, 2010, John Ericson

Following up on the post from Bruce yesterday (on playing notes out the valve slides–check that video) I have two more horn player “tricks” that may or may not mean much but mean something. One is about the “pop frequency” of mouthpieces. Take a mouthpiece and “pop” it against the palm of your hand as [...]

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