SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Presentations’

A Blind Test of Horns at IHS Denver, the Results

PUBLISHED: August 26, 2008, John Ericson

A post on the Pope Instrument Repair site/blog points to the results of the blind test of horns done at the 2008 IHS Denver Symposium. The results are here, worth checking out if you are an advanced hornist. UPDATE-2011: The results are gone now! But, relying on memory, the gist of it was three (four) [...]

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IHS Denver in Review

PUBLISHED: July 28, 2008, John Ericson

With IHS Denver over for only 24 hours as I write this post much is still fresh in my mind from the event. WOW! Congratulations and many thanks must be given to host Susan McCullough. There were nearly 800 hornists in attendance and it was an extremely busy week. For me personally not only did [...]

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Derek Wright, International Horn Society, Presentations, Rose French, Wagner, Wagner tuba

A Guide to IHS Denver

PUBLISHED: July 6, 2008, John Ericson

The schedule is up at the website for the 40th International Horn Symposium in Denver July 22-27. I believe that the symposium will be well attended and I do look forward to the wide variety of events. For those wanting to make the most of their time at the symposium, I have a few suggestions [...]

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Frank Lloyd, International Horn Society, Milan Yancich, Presentations, Publications, Wagner, Wagner tuba

Yet Another “Deadly Sin” of Horn Playing

PUBLISHED: May 12, 2008, John Ericson

Another post from the archive, originally posted to the Horn Notes Blog on 1/9/06. A year ago I wrote of how I had enjoyed a presentation I had seen in 2003 by Larry Lowe on the “Seven Deadly Sins” of horn playing. Speaking to him this past weekend at the horn workshop at the University [...]

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“Seven Deadly Sins” of Horn Playing

PUBLISHED: May 12, 2008, John Ericson

Originally posted to the old HTML Horn Notes Blog on 1/10/05, this is one of my favorite posts ever. An event known as “A.I.R. Horns” (Arizona Intra-State Retreat for Horns) is upon us this weekend here in Arizona. The event was started by my predecessor at ASU Thomas Bacon and has been hosted for the [...]

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Presentations, Professionalism & Etiquette, Seven Deadly Sins of horn playing, Workshops & Symposiums

Horn Players Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins

PUBLISHED: February 13, 2007, John Ericson

Horn soloist and composer Lawrence Lowe was in Tempe yesterday, where he performed two solos (the “traditional version” of the Mozart Concert Rondo [without the sixty newly discovered bars] and the third movement of his Sonata No. 1 for horn) with the Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble (a community group) and presented a version of his [...]

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Presentations, Seven Deadly Sins of horn playing