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Main Bersama-Sama for Horn and Gamelan

PUBLISHED: April 12, 2011, John Ericson

Back two years ago in my report on the 2009 Southeast Horn Workshop, hosted by Travis Bennett at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, I noted that I was actually pretty much blown away hearing a live performance of Main Bersama-Sama, a work for horn and gamelan by Lou Harrison. Then yesterday on Facebook …

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A Look at the U.S. Army Band Manual

PUBLISHED: March 25, 2011, Bruce Hembd

The U.S. Army remains one of the largest and oldest employers for musicians in America, and last summer I was happy to find a document that spells out some of the operational details behind-the-scenes. The document bears the very simple title of  “U.S. Army Bands,” but contained inside is a wealth of information and ideas [...]

On Ethics and Integrity in Copyright Licensing

PUBLISHED: February 16, 2011, Bruce Hembd

Over the winter holiday, my wife and I took a trip to Disney World in Florida. Besides the usual attractions, two things impressed me the most: the customer service and the excellent quality of the music. In many of the attractions multi-tracked music and effects streamed constantly throughout. The superb writing talents of composer Bruce [...]

Update – Griffin’s ‘For You’

PUBLISHED: August 23, 2010, Bruce Hembd

We welcome a new advertiser at Horn Matters, David Griffin. His new recording is enjoying brisk sales and will be receiving a review in the November/December Fanfare magazine. Here is a sneak peek: Griffin handles the special difficulties of the low range with the assurance of, well, a good fourth-horn player, but he also soars [...]

Video Score: Edgard Varèse’s Octandre

PUBLISHED: July 16, 2010, Bruce Hembd

A growing trend on YouTube is something that might be called video scores – a video of a music score, with page turns timed to accompanying audio. These videos are a great way to do a little score study and to learn something new. The embedded score below of Octandre, for example, has been online [...]

David Griffin’s ‘For You’ and the World-Premiere Recording of the Broughton Sonata

PUBLISHED: July 14, 2010, Bruce Hembd

A teacher of mine long ago had a terrible nickname for fourth horn players in the orchestra. He called them the “garbage-men of the horn section.” While I wasn’t exactly sure what he meant, I knew that he intended it as some kind of insult. It stuck with me. As I became a professional, I [...]

Arranging chorales, like painting by numbers

PUBLISHED: July 2, 2010, Bruce Hembd

For myself as a conservatory undergraduate, four-part chorale writing was slow and sometimes laborious. It was a learning curve fraught with rules and clams. Later in life I got over this and discovered that studying 4-part chorales did not have to be an academic chore; it could actually be fun, useful and educational. Even if [...]

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John Ericson & Bruce Hembd
on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.