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Commentary and Parody: The Louisville Orchestra Inc. Calls for Applicants

PUBLISHED: December 16, 2011, Bruce Hembd

In addition to searching for orchestra musicians via the online service Craigslist, the Louisville Orchestra Inc. (LOI) has created and is distributing an advertisement calling for replacement musicians. The line in the sand, according to an LO press release, was drawn last month when the LOI management unilaterally declared that the protracted contract dispute and [...]

Commentary and Yet More Parody: Pimpin’ with the Louisville Orchestra

PUBLISHED: December 5, 2011, Bruce Hembd

The amount of web site traffic and positive response – on Facebook, on this site and in private messages - to last Friday’s opinion piece and parody of the current situation at the Louisville Orchestra (LO) has been outstanding. It seems to indicate that I am not the only one who is confused and dismayed at the gross [...]

Opinion and Parody: The ‘New and Improved’ Louisville Orchestra

PUBLISHED: December 2, 2011, Bruce Hembd

As if things could not get any stranger, the management of the troubled Louisville Orchestra has been soliciting replacement musicians through the popular classified ads web site, Craigslist.  While I do have some colleagues who have successfully used Craigslist to buy, sell and trade items, I would rather put my hand into a box of [...]

Update 2011: Why Write Articles and Put Them Online?

PUBLISHED: April 8, 2011, Bruce Hembd

Weighing heavily on my mind recently has been my motivations for making public, thoughts on the French horn and the classical music business. About two years ago, I went through a similar soul search and posted these reasons: A joy of creative writing. Public service and contribution. A means to ponder and think out loud. [...]

Anatomy of a Music Stand (Spring 2011)

PUBLISHED: March 2, 2011, Bruce Hembd

In the same vein as previous articles where I posted pictures of my workstation and mouthpiece pouch contents, today’s article highlights some of the music that I am currently working on -  for both fun and profit. I manage to get in 2-3 hours of practice each day and I do it mainly for personal [...]

The ‘Bonus Notes’ of Dvořák’s 7th Symphony

PUBLISHED: January 14, 2011, Bruce Hembd

Of all the symphonies of Antonin Dvořák my favorite is the 7th. While his 9th symphony is epic and immensely more popular, and the 8th has its strong appeal, the horn parts and the Romantic sweep of the 7th really hit home for me. And – in the final measures there is typically an extra [...]

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Horn in A in Italian ‘Bel Canto’ Opera: Rossini’s Semiramide

PUBLISHED: January 12, 2011, Bruce Hembd

In “Sometimes Up is Down” I spelled out some pitfalls in performing Italian operatic repertoire. For Horn in A: The basic “A-horn” rule-of-thumb for the 3rd hornist is this: If your “up” transposition puts your sounding pitches above the 1st horn, you most likely need to invert the interval transposition to sound below the 1st [...]

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