100% Accuracy

A couple thoughts from placement auditions for ensembles at ASU last week. 1. You really need to not miss the notes. Musicality, tone, and nuance are all great things, I love them, but in the end some listeners will think you are not that good if you can’t play for example the complete exposition of [...]

This time of year the topic of seating auditions is a big one for college students. I do my best to help all students prepare for these auditions at ASU, and have over the years I believe done better with this each year. Of course you want to play well, but one thing to keep [...]

Over the weekend I learned (via the hornlist) of the passing on Friday of Milan Yancich at the age of 86. A longtime faculty member at Eastman, member of The Rochester Philharmonic, and publisher (Wind Music), his name may not be familiar to some readers, but to those who knew him he has his place [...]

While I have watched the DCI finals on TV a number of times, last night I attended my first DCI (Drum Corps International) event in many years, the DCI Desert Classic at ASU Sun Devil stadium. I enjoyed the event overall, had a great seat and heard 12 Division I corps, but overall I focused on [...]

This question was posed to me today and I realized there is nothing in my writings that address this question, one that does come up. You don’t want a lot to build up and cake in there over years of use on any horn but especially on a triple or descant that has a valve [...]

A site visitor, a composer, recently asked a question that got me thinking about what works I would suggest as models of horn writing among recent works. I enjoy a very wide variety of music, but what I tend to enjoy playing and teaching the most are works that are well suited to the horn [...]