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Why Did Van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?

PUBLISHED: May 4, 2011, Bruce Hembd

In the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, intense color and passionate brush strokes are the key influential elements. His influence in the art world during his lifetime however, did not have a great impact; he is reported to have sold only one painting while he was alive! From the Van Gogh Gallery web site: Van [...]

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Famous art, Maxime-Alphonse, Photoshop, Verne Reynolds

Copyright and the PDF Maxime-Alphonse Etudes

PUBLISHED: October 14, 2009, John Ericson

Looking over the search terms coming in to Horn Matters I know the word is out that there is a place you can find the Maxime-Alphonse etudes online. You know who you are; you want to save a few dimes as these are expensive etudes that horn teachers really like to use. They are in [...]

Mean Horn Teachers who wrote Etudes

PUBLISHED: September 19, 2009, John Ericson

There are some really great etudes out there that have a few things in common, besides being hard. The main thing is they have traps. These take many forms and actually most of the problems with working out these etudes are related to the following traps. 1. Breathing. One classic trap in Kopprasch and Gallay [...]

Sessions with Saxton and Sellers at the 1989 SWRHW

PUBLISHED: July 14, 2009, John Ericson

The next two sessions that I have VHS tapes of from the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop are by Earl Saxton and Jacquelyn Sellers. Philip Farkas did the opening session on Saturday. One thing I should mention right off the top is that these sessions are pretty wide ranging in content due to them being [...]

New Information on Maxime-Alphonse

PUBLISHED: March 13, 2007, John Ericson

Last night I had a very pleasant surprise in my inbox. Blog reader Jay Anderson had seen my previous post on Maxime-Alphonse and got inspired and wrote publisher Alphonse Leduc to see if they had biographical data on file for Maxime-Alphonse. And they replied with a scan of a page of biographical information in French! [...]

Maxime Alphonse, International Man of Mystery

PUBLISHED: March 7, 2007, John Ericson

Probably every month during the school year I receive notes from horn students trying to research horn players of the past who are trying to find information on Maxime Alphonse. While he is the author of the widely used six volume set of horn etudes, believe it or not I actually have very little information [...]

One Reason Why We Work on Maxime-Alphonse

PUBLISHED: March 4, 2007, John Ericson

Tonight I had a rehearsal with the ASU Faculty Woodwind Quintet, the first rehearsal of a piece we are performing in a few weeks, the Quintet by Jean Francaix. Especially tonight I thought to myself this is why we work on Maxime-Alphonse book V, to play pieces like this well. It is mostly written in [...]

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