SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Off topic’

30 Popular Posts & Shared Reading

PUBLISHED: April 20, 2010, Bruce Hembd

We have been experiencing a spike in new visitors. One feature that may be of interest is the 30 Popular Posts page. A third-party service called PostRank rates these articles based on a variety of things, mostly how often this post was shared in social media networks. Another area of interest is under the BROWSE [...]

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TromboneExcerpts.org

PUBLISHED: April 17, 2010, John Ericson

In the horn world we have been blessed for a number of years with a great interactive horn website, HornExcerpts.org. If you have never visited, you need to! Bruce Hembd has a review here. Lots of students use it to print out excerpts but the real value is in the interactive aspect of the site, [...]

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Reviews

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Trumpet Video: Tre-Méndez

PUBLISHED: February 7, 2010, John Ericson

One unique thing we have at the Arizona State University School of Music is the Rafael Méndez Library, in honor of the legendary trumpet soloist, of which the online version may be found here. As is noted there, “The Library was established for the purpose of providing precise and complete information about the life and [...]

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Technology & Digital Culture

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Off topic, Rafael Mendez, Trumpet

Random Monday: Cleveland Strike, Vlatkovic on BBC and Who’s Who

PUBLISHED: January 18, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Cleveland on strike After 30 years without any work stoppages, the musicians in Cleveland are on strike. Considering our current economic climate in America, a strike of orchestra musicians (even one as high caliber as Cleveland) is a fairly bold move. BBC Listening There are still two days to hear Radovan Vlatkovic and the Nash [...]

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Backstage: Angels Seen on High

PUBLISHED: December 30, 2009, Bruce Hembd

During Arizona Opera productions I like to regress to the green room of symphony hall to relax. During an intermission break at a recent Nutcracker production in the same hall I was surprised to find the same room being used as a preparation area for Christmas angels. I snapped this quick photo of the scene: [...]

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Off topic, Orchestra

Random Monday: The Last of 2009

PUBLISHED: December 28, 2009, Bruce Hembd

And so, after a period of hiatus I have returned. Over the past few weeks, I have been making major adjustments to my life and career, and so blogging has taken a back seat. In short, I have accepted a position as a web developer at a local college. While I still maintain music positions [...]

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Arizona Doing Its Best to Discourage Teachers

PUBLISHED: November 27, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Of late I am very disturbed by recent trends in my home state of Arizona. At one time the education motto from our nation’s capitol in Washington was “no child left behind.” These days in Arizona it takes on a special irony; while a child’s education is proposed to be of strong public interest, the [...]

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