Professor Corno: Five Thoughts on Dinosaurs

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And I don’t mean pre-historic ones, I mean the musical ones that inhabit our horn world. Silverbacks. There are at least five ways to spot them. 1. Out of touch with the musical world of the present. They may have been great, really great, at some point in time. At least they were lucky. But [...]

Horndude77, and a Project that You can Support

John Ericson, 03/12/2013
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If you have used ISMLP to access horn music you have probably seen the user name Horndude77. If not, first take a second and check out the link below: List of Compositions Featuring the Horn The list is extensive and Horndude77 has contributed quite a number of titles to ISMLP. And proving again that Arizona [...]

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Video: How Good is Good Enough? – A Lecture by Douglas Yeo

John Ericson, 03/12/2013

Back in January my trombone colleague at Arizona State University, Douglas Yeo, presented a lecture to the Brass Area on the topic of “How Good is Good Enough?” The video is below (actually, audio only—direct link here), and a few notes follow. Early in the lecture four points were highlighted in relation to the topic [...]

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An Interview on Orchestral Horn Auditions. Part IV, the Future and Final Tips

John Ericson, 03/10/2013
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This article concludes an interview conducted 2/13/13 with Ashley Cumming, a Doctoral student at Indiana University. Part I starts here. With increased numbers of people flying to auditions and greater accessibility, has that played an impact on the homogeneity of sound in an orchestra? I again feel somewhat puzzled by your question as I flew [...]

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Horn Repertoire Week 9: The Natural Horn in the Romantic Period

John Ericson, 03/07/2013

This week our discussion will focus on topics discussed in and articles linked from this article from last year, The Natural Horn in the Romantic Period Highlights of our listening and discussion this week will include these two masterworks: Schubert: Auf dem Strom (horn, soprano or tenor, piano) Brahms: Trio, Op. 40 for Horn, Violin, [...]

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An Interview on Orchestral Horn Auditions. Part III, Technology and Preparation Today

John Ericson, 03/05/2013
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This article continues an interview conducted 2/13/13 with Ashley Cumming, a Doctoral student at Indiana University. Part I starts here.  TECHNOLOGY AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AUDITION How has technology played a changing role in your versus your students’ preparation? As I was using tape recording back then it really is not that much different. We [...]

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Brief Review: The Jupiter Hybrid Horn/Mellophone Mouthpiece

John Ericson, 03/03/2013
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Back a few years ago I wrote (at some professional risk) a number of items on the mellophone, including an article on mellophone mouthpiece options in my Horn Articles Online site. Following up on that, I very recently had the chance to try the Jupiter 7CH mouthpiece, which seems to be only sold packaged with [...]

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