John Ericson, 01/12/2010
The Lorenzo Sansone Fan Page
A hornist who was much better known 50 years ago than today is Lorenzo Sansone. I saw on the IHS Facebook page that a relative of Sansone has started a Facebook group for Lorenzo Sansone. On visiting I see he has posted several archive photos and items to the page but there were actually no [...]
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Bruce Hembd, 01/11/2010
Random Monday: The Buzzword, Behind Bars and Big Dogs
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Greg Sandow makes a really good argument for music programs at institutions of higher learning to start teaching more classes on entrepreneurship in his Top Ten Changes in Classical Music. See #4:
“Entrepreneurship” — that’s a buzzword at music schools today, as the schools realize that classical music careers are changing, and that musicians (see [...]
John Ericson, 01/10/2010
Roundup of Upcoming Horn Events Spring/Summer 2010
One of the pages we added to Horn Matters as a service to the horn community is a page of news on upcoming events. The full page may be accessed here, but as a brief roundup of the events, the basic info on each upcoming horn event we have noted is as follows. I (John) [...]
John Ericson, 01/09/2010
Two More Horn Player Tricks
Following up on the post from Bruce yesterday (on playing notes out the valve slides–check that video) I have two more horn player “tricks” that may or may not mean much but mean something.
One is about the “pop frequency” of mouthpieces. Take a mouthpiece and “pop” it against the palm of your hand as in [...]
Bruce Hembd, 01/08/2010
How to Annoy Bassoonists Yet Amuse the Low Brass
I absolutely must know how this is done. This is possibly the most ultimate horn-player party trick.
Ever.
John Ericson, 01/07/2010
Review: Hornlessons.org
A reader recently sent me a link to Hornlessons.org, a website that offers video instruction in the horn by Andrew M. McAfee, horn instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former Principal Horn of the North Carolina Symphony (1992-2007). The website features 12 videos on horn technique, three of which may [...]
Bruce Hembd, 01/06/2010
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