Categories of Dynamics

Continued from Part I. Here is the second half of a post made last week. Enjoy… Scale/Flow Studies Part II

More on preparing for the real world. Since posting a blog on applying an electronics education model to music performance education, I have found several other blogs with related material worth investigating. While college performance majors graduate with strong fundamentals, many lack real-world survival skills. Students are left wandering in the dark to figure it [...]

“Keep it simple stupid.” When it comes to practicing the horn, making web sites or even blogging I have a tendency to overdo things at times. A part of my final procedure is to go back, condense and delete superfluous or redundant text. A comic strip at BasicInstructions.net takes a humorous look at this process, [...]

News on the Columbus Symphony situation has been something I have been following on my own this past year. Their lockout and recent agreement have been reported widely, as has the departure of their music director. This agreement leaves them with a base salary of $42,000. That number made me curious to review and compare their [...]

Star Wars meets the Columbus Symphony.I had originally posted this a while back, then took it down thinking that it might be too harsh or too off base. Putting Hirokami in the claw of the Buzz-monster was a spontaneous afterthought.Little did I know that it might come to represent the sad truth.The text accompanying this [...]

After subbing in the ASU Sinfonietta (see the previous post) a number of the mostly younger horn students in the section commented on my dynamics in the group, as in how loudly I played at the loud spots. The reaction was somewhat unexpected. First let me say that I did not feel I was playing [...]