Auditions 101

More evidence on the benefits of musical training Recent research from a study in Germany indicates that musical training can help children use words. The results of an 18-month study suggest “a positive transfer effect from musical expertise onto speech and language processing,” writes a research team led by Ingo Roden of Carl von Ossietzky [...]

Dated 1/14/05, this article from the HTML archive of the old Horn Notes Blog is a brief report on a session presented jointly with three other Arizona hornists, including both of the other full time professors and a name Horn Matters readers will recognize, Bruce Hembd. The three professors subsequently did several sessions at AMEA [...]

Today we welcome an article by hornist and scholar William Melton, with a link to a fascinating recording of Mahler 2 (the first complete recording!) and the story of an important horn player and conductor that is little known today. We live in a great time to be an orchestral music fan, with ensembles worldwide [...]

One of the projects this semester is to develop a great, professional resume. To prepare this document there is an excellent guide put out by the American Federation of Musicians (available to members only) and I would also point to this reading in the great Douglas Yeo trombone website as our first assigned reading of [...]

Many years ago (in a location I cannot remember) I attended a concert of the Munich Philharmonic while they were on an American tour. The legendary Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache was on the podium, and I was curious to see the man behind the reputation. What I had mainly heard was that the Romanian Maestro [...]

Farquharson Cousins has quite a lot to say about orchestral playing and about conductors specifically in On Playing the Horn. He notes for example that A really fine conductor is a joy and a godsend; he will be much loved by all; music will take on a new and undiscovered dimension; St. Cecilia will smile [...]