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Raising the Tribe

PUBLISHED: February 5, 2010, Bruce Hembd

It is not fun when an organization you are in falls apart. It does happen sometimes. Companies fold. A chamber group breaks up. Workers go on strike. At the recent Orchestral Musicians Symposium some true horror stories were told. Representatives from the Phoenix, Tucson, Arizona Opera, New Mexico and Spokane orchestras gave updates of their [...]

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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Random Monday: Thanks, El Sistema America and PSO Musicians Reach Out

PUBLISHED: October 19, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Kudos and thanks This new site and its open access allows visitors to browse previously posted articles – occasionally mistakes and oversights may be noticed. Thanks to Jonathan West for pointing out a few errors in my transposition chart. Since this chart is one of the most popular pages it is important for it to [...]

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Off topic, Orchestra, Phoenix

Phoenix Symphony Voodoo Economics?

PUBLISHED: October 2, 2009, Bruce Hembd

The natives are restless in the Photoshop jungle. With the intense, summer desert heat waning, a new classical music season begins in Phoenix, Arizona. The various symphony, opera and chamber music groups are returning from summer hiatus. With this upcoming season too comes preliminary contract negotiations for the Arizona Opera Orchestra musicians (AZOOMA). AZOOMA has [...]

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Random Monday: Liberace’s Horn, Christie’s Rock Star Status, Atlanta’s Principals, and Moses’ Horn

PUBLISHED: September 28, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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Liberace’s horn player An old post unearthed at the Indiana Public Media site features John Gras, a West Coast horn player active in the 1940′s and 50′s. He made an album titled “Jazz Studio 3″ — a search online found nothing more about this. From hairy chest to sexy beast In a Random Monday two [...]

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Random Monday: Maestro Christie’s Chest, My Way or the Highway and Coming Up This Week

PUBLISHED: September 7, 2009, Bruce Hembd
Drill Sargeant Music Teacher

The drill sergeant teacher This comic strip from Scott Meyer called “How to Teach” is both funny and brilliant.  Reading just the text at the top of each panel, Horndog is reminded of a few music teachers that actually use this kind of methodology — tear down a student to break their mold, then fill [...]

Random Monday: Grit, Berping and Uncle Sam

PUBLISHED: August 10, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Random stuff. A French horn pedigree Why did I spend all that money on college tuition when I could have just bought a degree on Ebay? True grit It isn’t just perseverance, it is about keeping long term goals in mind. A plea for Brains A 1958 plea from Gramophone for the BBC recordings of [...]

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John Ericson & Bruce Hembd
on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.