Introducing the Mellophonium

A retraction to a post on the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. It has been brought to my attention through an outside source that the June 12, 2009 post “Phoenix Symphony Waterloo” contained imagery that could be misconstrued as meaning something else other than what was intended. An image of Phoenix Symphony Orchestra CEO Maryellen Gleason holding [...]

Another preemptive, hiatus post. UPDATE 6/13/09: a retraction. A manager involved with non-profit public relations always wants to put the best face on a company, even when the going gets tough. During times of crisis, they know that donors shy away from giving money to an organization that looks like a sinking ship. But there [...]

We interrupt this hiatus for an update. A one-shot post This is a one-shot post during my 2-week hiatus. I will return to full blogging in 7 days — next Monday. Confusion and misdirection in Phoenix Apparently I wasn’t the only person confused by the recent about-face from the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. Articles at Musical [...]

I am in Macomb, Illinois at the 41st International Horn Symposium. I will be very busy at the event but will try to post daily updates to this post during the week, to give a bit of an online insight into the event. If you are not here, try to get to a future symposium and also [...]

I am on my way to the International Horn Symposium in Illinois, with a multi day stop in Kansas to visit my mother. Last night I went with her to hear a classic sound rooted in the past, the sound of a town band in the park. I heard the concert of the Emporia Municipal [...]

I am taking a planned blogging break for a short while. A few randoms bits before saying hasta la vista: A touching recollection of Mason Jones at Philadelphia Recollections. I don’t watch this show, but apparently the character Amy on The Secret Life of a Teenager plays the French horn. She gets knocked-up at band [...]