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PSA: On the Ewald Quintets and that Ewald/King “Symphony for Brass”

PUBLISHED: June 30, 2011, John Ericson

The Ewald Quintet No. 1 for brass has to be among the most widely performed of all brass quintets in our repertoire and certainly is the most popular among 19th century original works for quintet. Victor Ewald (1860-1935) was a civil engineer but also an avid amateur brass player and composer, particularly of brass music. [...]

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Fifty Years of the American Brass Quintet

PUBLISHED: September 4, 2010, John Ericson

The American Brass Quintet gave their first public performance on December 11, 1960 in New York City. This year, 2010, they will celebrate with a special 50th Anniversary Concert on Friday, October 15 in Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. I still remember the first performance I heard by the ABQ; it was in Wichita, [...]

Download W. A. Mozart, K. 407 Quintet, arranged for brass (II)

PUBLISHED: May 12, 2010, Bruce Hembd

UPDATE: 5/14/2010 – the score is embedded for easier viewing online. Open publication Download Part II Download Parts I and II in one large 7.5MB PDF file At the end of Part I, I mentioned a small caveat. At first I was hesitant to post this score, but later decided to go ahead. This second [...]

Random Monday: Brain Transplants, Coasting and Canadian Brass Interview

PUBLISHED: May 3, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Who’d of thunk it? You can actually get horn cases at Walmart. Me, Myself and I I read this article from Doug Yeo’s archive several times – “Me, Myself and I.” It is good to remind ourselves from time-to-time that great music is all about great teamwork. Oops Sometimes when I look around for Dennis [...]

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Alphorn Video: Mnozil Brass

PUBLISHED: December 22, 2009, John Ericson

A reader (thank you!) sent a link to the video below, which features Gerhard Füssl on alphorn with Mnozil Brass. He is a trombonist with the group and puts on quite a show with the carbon fiber alphorn. Note also that the video is of very high quality with multiple camera angles, etc. Prepare to [...]

Audition Overload

PUBLISHED: October 31, 2009, John Ericson

I judged two concerto competitions on Thursday, which reminded me of this post full of tips on taking all types of auditions from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, dated 3/14/06. The trip up to the mountains yesterday to see the snow with my family has helped me recover from to the point I can write [...]

SEHW 2009 in Review

PUBLISHED: March 9, 2009, John Ericson

First, a big note of thanks to Travis Bennett and his students and colleagues at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC for hosting a great Southeast Horn Workshop this past weekend. This is the largest of the annual regional horn workshops, and this year had over 300 registered participants. Every horn event has many notable things, [...]

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