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Background on The Brass Gym for Horn

PUBLISHED: September 20, 2007, John Ericson

Very early in my tenure at ASU I realized that Sam Pilafian was accomplishing some very interesting things with his breathing/warm-up class and warm-up materials in the tuba/euphonium studio. I was aware of these materials before I arrived at ASU– unpublished versions of his warm-up materials had been circulating for years in bass clef. I [...]

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In the Breathing Gym

PUBLISHED: September 16, 2007, John Ericson

These past few years a publication and DVD by my ASU colleagues Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan has taken off in the brass world, The Breathing Gym. If you are interested in better breathing (you should be!) this is a great product, presented very well by Sam and Pat. In terms of horn what I [...]

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Very Good News from ASU

PUBLISHED: May 9, 2007, John Ericson

Yesterday afternoon I was officially informed that I will be promoted in rank from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and granted tenure effective with the 2007-08 academic year. It has been quite a process–gaining tenure in my former position in the Nashville Symphony was not nearly as stressful–but overall one that has given me even [...]

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