Things Horn Teachers Say: Ineffective Teaching

Continued from Part I The ego-driven approach to music instruction reminds me of the used car salesman whose opening sale pitch was that their company sold thousands of cars each month. He rattled on and on to me with successful sales quotes and impressive statistics. Finally, he ended with: I want YOU to walk off [...]

Teaching — more art than science? I occasionally lurk — read, but do not participate in — the various horn discussion groups. Interesting topics come up that in turn inspire blog topics. An underlying subtext that appears every now-and-then is ego-driven authority and opinion. Some teachers or players may quantify their views with statements like [...]

One of the great things about teaching at a school such as Arizona State is the opportunity to work with talented students on interesting projects. One such student is Nathan Stark, who is nearing the completion of his DMA. For his project we decided to focus in on the topic of accuracy on the horn [...]

A survey on accuracy. Arizona State University doctoral candidate Nathan Stark has embarked on an ambitious project. It is a research survey related to accuracy on the French horn. It is a thought-provoking survey whose end results in tandem (presumably) with a dissertation may be of great value to the horn world. It is an [...]

Photos from Disneyland. In the area of Disneyland called ToonTown, there is a fun fountain in the central plaza with a few funny horn-related sculptures. Here are a few close-up pictures: Below is an embedded medallion on the sidewalk surrounding the fountain. Like the photo above, I am not sure if it represents a horn [...]

Arizona State DMA trombone student Josh Bledsoe has an interesting link in his blog post on the topic of “Air” to a new publication by David Vining. Titled The Breathing Book, it looks like it will be a great companion to the Breathing Gym. I have blogged about the session I saw David Vining present [...]