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Review: New Book on Accuracy, Don’t Miss!

PUBLISHED: April 4, 2010, John Ericson

Don’t Miss! Ideas, concepts, and exercises designed to increase accuracy on an inaccurate instrument by Nicholas Smith is a brand new publication on the development of accuracy. As he notes in the first paragraph of the introduction, This publication is the product of close to forty years of teaching the horn to students of all [...]

Something I have in Common with J. D. Shaw

PUBLISHED: September 10, 2009, John Ericson

We had a special guest in our studio class on Wednesday at Arizona State: hornist J. D. Shaw. This fall he joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico as Assistant Professor of Horn, having previously toured for 15 years with the Boston Brass [video here]. He has done more things than can be [...]

Notes from IHS 41

PUBLISHED: June 2, 2009, John Ericson

I am in Macomb, Illinois at the 41st International Horn Symposium. I will be very busy at the event but will try to post daily updates to this post during the week, to give a bit of an online insight into the event. If you are not here, try to get to a future symposium and also [...]

What I Sounded Like 25 Years Ago

PUBLISHED: January 9, 2009, John Ericson

On January 9, 1984, I made a trek down to Wichita, Kansas from my home in Emporia. Purpose: to make an audition tape for graduate school auditions. I was then a senior at Emporia State University, but by then I had also studied regularly for a year and a half privately with Nicholas Smith, then [...]

Don’t Miss!

PUBLISHED: June 30, 2008, John Ericson

This is another post from the archive, dated 7/12/2004, when I was performing Principal Horn and teaching at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Who likes to miss notes? I don’t. Last night I performed first horn on the Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber by Paul Hindemith, the Cello Concerto in A minor, [...]

Four Tips for More Accurate Performances

PUBLISHED: November 30, 2006, John Ericson

College level horn students all over the USA are very aware that juries (performance exams) are just around the corner. With the goal of making a few juries and other performances more accurate four thoughts: 1. Manage your chops well. There is a big temptation to cram in extra practice but you simply will not [...]

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