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A reality check begins with some questions. This is a difficult issue for me to relate in words and it not fully fleshed-out yet. I invite you to add to the conversation at the end of this post. A previous post from last week, Rebranding a Dream, got me thinking on a story published in [...]

Many brass players are familiar with The Breathing Gym book and DVD. Following on the success of the original Breathing Gym tuba virtuosi Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan created their second DVD, Breathing Gym Daily Workouts. This collection is organized as a series of sequences of Breathing Gym exercises specifically designed to address topics including [...]

Not just for symphony orchestras & brands of soda. A recent article by Mitch York at MSPMentor.net presents a nice lesson for us on the topic of pursuing an occupation you love as opposed to one that you do for a living. With art and culture in trouble (especially here in Arizona) this kind of [...]

A conversation I end up having fairly often is on the topic of what makes a horn a professional quality horn. The Nirschl in the previous post is not professional quality and is not marketed as such, but it hits a price point and also in the case of this ¾ size double horn is [...]

I had always thought that fox hunting was more-or-less a European sport, but then I found this passage in an obituary last week at Philly.com: Mrs. Karas, whose great-grandparents were fox hunters in Chester County, began hunting in junior high school. She rode with the West Chester and West Bradford hunt clubs and for many [...]

Self-indulgent kudos to colleagues. Last weekend the Arizona Opera finished up a successful production of Puccini’s Tosca. I had the fun of playing principal horn on this production, and I wanted to take some time here and acknowledge the tremendous job the players in the section did. The section members for this show: (Myself) Nathan [...]