Bruce Hembd, 01/19/2010
Fine Tuning the Site
While I have not been writing much lately at HornMatters, I have been putting loads of time into fixing bugs and improving usability and functionality.
This is a big word in the web development field – usability.
Studies show that the typical designer loses their objectivity with a design after a few days of looking at [...]
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Bruce Hembd, 01/18/2010
Random Monday: Cleveland Strike, Vlatkovic on BBC and Who’s Who
Cleveland on strike
After 30 years without any work stoppages, the musicians in Cleveland are on strike. Considering our current economic climate in America, a strike of orchestra musicians (even one as high caliber as Cleveland) is a fairly bold move.
BBC Listening
There are still two days to hear Radovan Vlatkovic and the Nash Ensemble.
More Graas
I found [...]
John Ericson, 01/18/2010
Launching a Book on Facebook
A new publication that we scooped on Horn Matters is The Efficient Approach: Accelerated Development for the Horn by Richard Deane. My review is here, and for those on Facebook you may wish to also check out the “Virtual Book Release Party” for this publication there, a great idea for getting the word out to [...]
John Ericson, 01/16/2010
The Gumpert Project
While this is a post from my original HTML blog from 9/16/05, it is very timely now as one of my DMA students, Derek Wright, is working on a recording project related to these transcriptions; video shot this past week is embedded at the end of this post.
All fine teachers strive to teach effectively. In [...]
John Ericson, 01/15/2010
School is a Waste of Time, and the College Teaching Resume
In an article cleverly titled “School is a waste of time” that I recently saw linked, a Canadian college student studying in the United States wrote of professors,
“Those who can’t do, teach.” This is a joke I heard a few years ago but it’s no joke at the U of S. Most professors have been [...]
John Ericson, 01/14/2010
Making the Second Solo CD
The past two days I helped produce a great recording project (more on that another day) and it reminded me of this post dated 6/7/2004 from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, one of the very first posts I put up, which gives good insights into the recording process.
This past weekend I got as far [...]
John Ericson, 01/13/2010
Professor Schmutzig and the Schmutzone 19 Valve Horn
One of the classic method books for the horn is the Complete Method für der Waldhorn oder der Ventilhorn by Professor Eric Von Schmutzig. Schmutzig according to the method was “Professor of Ventilhorns at der Borscht Conservatory of Lower Hamburg (mit onions).” It is, as you might guess, a book of horn humor. One running [...]
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