SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Brevard Music Center’

Summer Festival Study (and Summer Study in General)

PUBLISHED: June 19, 2010, John Ericson

It has been a while since I last visited the archive of posts from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog. This post dates all the way back to 8/12/2004 and was written right after a summer of teaching and performing at the Brevard Music Center. It speaks to what you can do with your summer [...]

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Horn study

Tips on Auditioning for a Summer Festival (or anything else)

PUBLISHED: January 23, 2010, John Ericson

Yet more very timely insider information on taking auditions, in a post from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dated 3/25/05. Another little project for me now is listening to and ranking all the horn auditions for summer study at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. We have some good, strong applicants; I look [...]

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Auditions

Orchestra 101: Lighting

PUBLISHED: November 1, 2009, John Ericson

There must be light! This seems obvious to me, but it seems that this is not always obvious to students and non-professional groups. In the old Nashville Master Agreement I have referenced in this series it states “There shall be proper lighting in the performance area during all services.” This includes requirements for stand lights [...]

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Pet Peeves

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Brevard Music Center, Orchestra, Orchestra 101

Don’t Miss!

PUBLISHED: June 30, 2008, John Ericson

This is another post from the archive, dated 7/12/2004, when I was performing Principal Horn and teaching at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Who likes to miss notes? I don’t. Last night I performed first horn on the Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber by Paul Hindemith, the Cello Concerto in A minor, [...]

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Accuracy

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Brevard Music Center, Gunther Schuller, Nicholas Smith

Striving for Tone

PUBLISHED: June 22, 2008, John Ericson

Another post from the archive, this dates to 7/2/2004 and is a favorite of mine. As I type these words I am at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina for my fifth summer, teaching half of the 16 student horn studio (9 college students and 7 advanced high school students–there are two divisions of [...]

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Brevard Music Center, David Wakefield, Summer study

The Father’s Day Post

PUBLISHED: June 13, 2008, John Ericson

With Father’s Day upon us this weekend my thoughts have turned to my father and a post from my original blog dated 7/11/05. Titled “Thoughts from the road,” it is perhaps the most personal post I have ever written for the blog. While the focus is my dad it does still touch on many things [...]

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Brevard Music Center, James

How Loud is too Loud?

PUBLISHED: May 3, 2008, John Ericson

This post is from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog; this particular post dates to 8/6/05, and was from the end of a summer of performing Principal Horn and teaching at the Brevard Music Center. Today is our final performance of the summer at Brevard, Mahler 6. Playing this work again has been interesting in [...]

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Brevard Music Center