SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Recordings’

Review: Tales of Imagination

PUBLISHED: February 5, 2012, John Ericson

Recent months have seen several CDs come in for review, and to start a short series of reviews first up is Tales of Imagination by J.D. Shaw, a new recording of works for horn and wind ensemble. This is no ordinary horn CD and is one that will definitely make listeners think bigger. The opening [...]

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On Prescreening Auditions

PUBLISHED: November 15, 2011, John Ericson

One recent trend in schools of music is that of requiring prescreening auditions. In my own teaching this year the exact requirement is “In order to be considered for a live, in-person audition, applicants for all doctoral performance concentrations at ASU must submit a prescreening recording by October 1 for spring admission and December 1 [...]

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Brief Reviews: Griffin, For You and Quadre, Our Time

PUBLISHED: May 31, 2011, John Ericson

For today we have two new horn CDs with two word titles, For You and Our Time. First up is For You. Horn Matters readers have undoubtedly noticed the advertisements, and Bruce Hembd interviewed Griffin about this CD last year. I purchased this in hard copy form at a workshop this spring and this may [...]

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Practice More Effectively by Listening to Music

PUBLISHED: January 23, 2011, John Ericson

The latest episode (120) of The Mellocast is on the topic of practice, and one of the main points made is that you can practice most effectively by not only practicing but also by listening to the works you are learning. The starting point of the discussion was the article “How Much Should We Practice?” [...]

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On Making Recorded Auditions

PUBLISHED: January 22, 2011, John Ericson

It is audition season for schools and festivals. Recently a video and an article made the rounds featuring one particular video audition this year for the YouTube Symphony by hornist David Cooper. If you have not seen it, the article is here, and the video below. Listening to the video there are a number of [...]

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Orchestra Excerpt CDs

PUBLISHED: December 18, 2010, John Ericson

Although we all know it is coming soon, I was recently struck by the statement “The CD really is dead” in a post in the Polyphonic.org blog by Robert Levine under the title “The times they are a’changin…” Read the original article for the full context of the quote but a lot of things are [...]

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John Clark, Song of Light–Memories of Horn Calls Past: My First Issue of The Horn Call, Part VI

PUBLISHED: November 9, 2010, John Ericson

One feature of The Horn Call for many years has been reviews of new books and recordings. My first issue had a special, guest record review by Douglas Hill of Song of Light by John Clark. I bought it and this jazz horn recording certainly remains one of my all time favorite recordings. Of it [...]

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