Silverado, and Why We Play the Horn

I recently received a note from Stephen Gamble that Robert Marshall’s substantially revised listing of Dennis Brain’s recordings, originally published in 1996 by Margun Music, is now online. When I first followed the link I was sort of confused as it claimed to be comprehensive but I could not find many recordings on the list. [...]

This week I had the opportunity to perform the double concerto commonly attributed to Haydn. My performance was with Rose French (with piano), as a preparatory performance for her as she will be performing this work with Bruno Schneider at the 2012 Southwest Horn Conference. This is a favorite work of mine and was last [...]

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A number of schools every year have openings for Graduate Teaching Assistants in their horn studios. Probably the most comprehensive list of these may be found in The IHS Online. The opening at Arizona State is listed, as are at this time several other schools. I expect that the list will grow. If you are [...]

So far as I can tell between now and the IHS International Symposium this year there are three major, regional horn workshops in the United States [But see the UPDATE]. First up is the Southwest Horn Conference, which this year will be held January on 13-15, 2012 right here in Phoenix, Arizona. The featured artist [...]

I have been working on the final Trio section from Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, not for a specific performance but rather as an exercise for technical improvement in tonguing, the high range and endurance. While working on this excerpt I remembered a neat performance trick – one that can be very helpful to a first [...]