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What your Mozart Concerto needs to Sound Like

PUBLISHED: February 7, 2012, John Ericson

Recently I was pointed to the blog of Barry Stees, Assistant Principal bassoon of the Cleveland Orchestra and a former colleague of mine at the Brevard Music Center. Two very recent articles caught my attention, related to the second bassoon auditions in the Cleveland Orchestra. A specific topic area that caught my attention was on [...]

5 Quotations on Work and Success

PUBLISHED: June 29, 2011, Bruce Hembd

A few years ago when Horn Matters first launched, we had a random quotation feature that appeared at the top of the site. After a few months I removed the random quotations in an effort to simplify and subtract from the overall design; looking at that list a few days ago, and I was struck [...]

Those “Tutti” Parts in some Mozart Editions

PUBLISHED: March 8, 2011, John Ericson

A question that comes up quite often is that of the “tutti” parts in some editions of Mozart horn concertos. As in, what is up with that marking? Do I need to play those parts? Like it or not a lot of players are turning to the IMSLP project for music, as noted in another [...]

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Random Monday, Early Edition: Barbarians at the Gates

PUBLISHED: May 16, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Surviving an attack A number of WordPress web sites at the same host as Horn Matters were slammed with malicious code last Friday. Sites that did not have the latest updates were hit hard, says our tech support. Horn Matters was fairly unstable and irregular over the weekend as it was slowly rebuilt and tested; [...]

Download W. A. Mozart, K. 407 Quintet, arranged for brass (I)

PUBLISHED: May 12, 2010, Bruce Hembd
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UPDATE: See Part II Playing chamber music as a career can be like a marriage, goes the popular notion. Shortly after graduating from Eastman, I gained stable employment in a brass quintet in Houston, Texas. Yes – in my group we sometimes fought like angry cats in a wet bag but overall, we had a [...]

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Video: An Unusual Performance of Mozart 4

PUBLISHED: December 3, 2009, John Ericson

A friend this morning sent me a link to this video with the note “This is sort of interesting.” Wrong! Thank you for the link but this performance is terribly, horribly misguided! At YouTube it just notes this clip as “Sergei Nakariakov in Moscow Concervatory Great Hall with Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra plays Mozart’s Horn Concerto No.4, 2d [...]

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New Version of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante

PUBLISHED: December 1, 2009, John Ericson

James Bash of Oregon Music News reports that There’s a big mystery behind Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major. Since the original manuscript has never been found, did Mozart really write this piece? Mozart scholar and pianist Robert Levin did so much research about this topic that he wrote a 492-page book entitled “Who Wrote [...]

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