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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week the focus of the class is on performance tactics for works that are fairly frequently performed from the Classical and early Romantic period that were for natural horn and lay in the high range. Works examined will include in particular these works, discussed further on pages 44-49 of my E-Book, Playing Descant and [...]

This article continues an interview conducted 2/13/13 with Ashley Cumming, a Doctoral student at Indiana University. Part I starts here. THE COMMITTEE AND THE CONDUCTOR Who heard your audition? Was there a committee? There was always a committee. These were all auditions for regional or better orchestras in the USA and all have union contracts. [...]

This week we will zero in on the topic of the natural horn in solo and chamber works of Mozart and Haydn. We have a relatively short reading on the topic: The Horn in the Classical Period Read that article for more (especially also read into the links on Mozart and Rosetti), and the listening [...]