A Survey on French Horn Accuracy

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 [...]

Catherine Roche-Wallace has posted to her blog about her session at the 2009 International Horn Symposium, “Valuing and Nurturing our Horn Students Through Keirsey’s Temperaments.” The slides for her presentation may be accessed in her post, and they give a pretty clear idea of the content of the session, which focused on “how to teach [...]

Several of my students and ASU colleagues just performed this past week for an event at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and I too was in California this past week; I just got back from a brief family trip to San Diego and the Los Angeles area. Sea World was fun as always, and among [...]

Reflections on the week that has passed. A horngoddess A blog site new to me is Catherine Roche-Wallace’s Horngodess blog. Ms. Roche-Wallace has been a contributor to the International Horn Society’s publication, The Horn Call and I did not make the connection between this and her blog until recently. Her latest posts include loads of [...]

No work required! Seriously — I found this on Amazon.com, this is not a made-up Photoshop trick. “Silent ultrasonic subliminal programming using brainwave entrainment technology” — that’s quite a sales pitch. Subliminal French Horn There are only two tracks to this recording. One is an ocean soundscape and the other is a “Silent Ultrasonic Track.” [...]