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The Community College Alternative

PUBLISHED: November 10, 2009, Bruce Hembd

At The Business of Music, Rose French makes a strong argument for instrumentalists to consider a music education degree over a performance degree. What most aspiring musicians don’t realize is that teaching will always be a part of your profession. There are a lot of terrible teachers that are amazing musicians, and I am sure [...]

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Finding the Best Music School

PUBLISHED: October 18, 2009, John Ericson

I was scanning the October, 2009 issue of In Tune Monthly and noticed that they include a guide to the best music schools for 2010. They go through a number of factors to consider in the article but I found this quote especially relevant to us as horn players. “The quality of the faculty is [...]

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Looking for a Research Topic?

PUBLISHED: August 28, 2008, John Ericson

If you are working toward a DMA one thing you have to always keep working toward is your research project. The one thing that helps the most toward this goal is to read other dissertations and projects. But where can you find dissertations to read? The good news is there are at least nine horn [...]

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Dissertation Acknowledgments

PUBLISHED: March 24, 2008, John Ericson

Having looked at a lot of dissertations and research papers, the acknowledgment page is always an interesting one to look at. They can range from a laundry list of people and even pets to a fairly dry, academic list. This semester is the first one for me at ASU when I have had a student [...]

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