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Nashville: A Bright Spot in the Orchestral World

PUBLISHED: August 17, 2008, John Ericson

Last week I joined the Nashville Symphony Facebook fan page and today a post in the Sticks and Drones blog, “Nashville: (Classical) Music City!” also caught my attention. My first full time job was as Third Horn in the Nashville Symphony and my good experience there left me generally more optimistic than some seem to [...]

The Art of Practice, Part II: Long Tones

PUBLISHED: July 30, 2008, Bruce Hembd

The oft-neglected long-tone.   In Part I of this series, I gave an overview of three basic components of the daily practice routine: Long-tones Scales Arpeggios With the students that I teach, without a doubt the most neglected component of their daily practice is long-tones. And this is a bit understandable: without the right mindset, [...]

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Exercise for Till Eulenspiegel: Till the Cows Come Home

PUBLISHED: June 10, 2008, Bruce Hembd

An exercise for Till Eulenspiegel > Download Till Exercise PDF On practically every “high horn” audition – and even on some low horn auditions – the opening solo from Richard Strauss’ tone poem Till Eulenspiegel will be asked. For any aspiring orchestral player, this excerpt must be known backwards and forwards. Taking this literally, I [...]

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A Collection Siegfried Horn Calls on Video

PUBLISHED: May 31, 2008, Bruce Hembd

Originally posted as a sidebar, this feature has been migrated to a dedicated page. Use the “continue” link below to check it out. Including plot synopsis and staging. Select MENU to pick and choose. Get the sheet music here. See also the blog post “Siegfried – The Back Story” which offers more commentary.

Hopping on the Columbus Bandwagon

PUBLISHED: May 16, 2008, Bruce Hembd

A recent comment by Columbus Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Tony Beadle in the Columbus Dispatch has caught my attention: “At the end of the day, people have to understand that we’ve got a huge dinosaur here that has to be fed 500 bales of hay a day.” Depending on your point of view, this is [...]

Keep a Mute in Your Car

PUBLISHED: May 15, 2008, John Ericson

Since the time I played in The Nashville Symphony I have kept a mute in the back of the car. The idea is that if you forget to bring your better mutes you will always have a mute of some sort to get by with in a pinch. Yesterday I made use of the car mute, [...]

Siegfried Horn Call – The Back Story to a Famous Horn Solo

PUBLISHED: May 1, 2008, Bruce Hembd

UPDATE: May 5, 2010. YouTube has removed the Bugs Bunny cartoon that features the horn call in F# major. A while ago, I had the pleasure to perform the complete Ring cycle several times with Arizona Opera, with Joe Berger as principal horn. I cannot say enough great things on how amazingly solid Joe is [...]

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