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Getting at the Emotional Content

PUBLISHED: December 9, 2008, John Ericson

I count among my former teachers Eli Epstein, with whom I studied the year after I finished my Masters degree. He was a featured guest at our horn day at ASU in 2005, as recounted in this post. As a part of his visit to ASU he performed the Brahms Trio in his innovative “Inside Out” [...]

Musicianship from the Inside Out, a New Online Book by Eli Epstein

PUBLISHED: November 3, 2008, John Ericson

A new resource by hornist Eli Epstein has just been published online as a part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra “Musicians in the Schools” program. Musicianship from the Inside Out includes chapters on Being Your Own Best Teacher Power Practicing Managing Performance Anxiety Beyond the Notes: Authentic Expression from the Inside Out It may be [...]

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Epstein on Vowels, Elevators, and Dairy Products

PUBLISHED: May 29, 2008, John Ericson

This post is from the original Horn Notes Blog, first posted on 10/23/05. While I have had other horn guest artists in, yesterday marked the first time I have hosted a real horn event. ASU Horn Day 2005 has now passed and was all I hoped it would be. Guest artist Eli Epstein gave us [...]

Epstein on Tonguing and Vowel sounds

PUBLISHED: March 28, 2008, John Ericson

This week a topic that has come up in lessons is that of vowel sounds and articulations. The only teacher I had that talked about this much was Eli Epstein. One time it really sticks in my mind him making the point that if he missed a note it was because he did not tongue in [...]

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The Count Down

PUBLISHED: December 5, 2006, John Ericson

The semester is almost over, but this post is not a count down to the end of the semester but about counting down to start pieces in an audition or jury. One really useful habit Eli Epstein suggested to me for audition excerpts was to count down in tempo to the start of the excerpt. [...]

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