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Recordings as a Guide in the Journey for Inspiration

PUBLISHED: September 23, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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I once knew a teacher who discouraged students from listening to recordings when preparing solo repertoire. This teacher felt that it was important for the student to seek out and find their own muse — presumably through blood, sweat and tears. Exactly how or where this quest for truth was to begin was never clearly [...]

How to Become a Horn Expert II

PUBLISHED: July 28, 2009, John Ericson

2. Listen to music. It has always surprised me how many horn students don’t listen to music much. Periodically someone will come in to play for me and be working on Mozart that has never heard Mozart! Buy a recording or three! I have a list of suggested, essential recordings in my Horn Articles site, [...]

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Even More Dennis Brain

PUBLISHED: April 18, 2009, John Ericson

This past week I heard from a former student who had looked over my top 10 CD list. In the list I include the Dennis Brain CD of the Mozart Concertos, which was actually the first horn record I ever purchased (on vinyl) and is a great, classic recording. I was not aware however of [...]

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Barrows Plays Wilder

PUBLISHED: January 19, 2009, John Ericson

This weekend I got back to my old copy of John Barrows and his French Horn: Music of Alec Wilder. It was a Golden Crest release from 1960 (RE 7002) and so far as I know is long out of print. There is however another Barrows recording now available from Sotone, where it also gives [...]

What I Sounded Like 25 Years Ago

PUBLISHED: January 9, 2009, John Ericson

On January 9, 1984, I made a trek down to Wichita, Kansas from my home in Emporia. Purpose: to make an audition tape for graduate school auditions. I was then a senior at Emporia State University, but by then I had also studied regularly for a year and a half privately with Nicholas Smith, then [...]

Highland Cathedral

PUBLISHED: November 28, 2008, John Ericson

It is the season for Christmas pops concerts. This season I will be playing perhaps the best one of these in the Phoenix area, the Salt River Brass Holiday Pops concert, popular enough that it is presented as a triple in three large venues. Very worth attending if you are in the area. I love [...]

Guadalupe, a New Concert Opera by James DeMars

PUBLISHED: May 8, 2008, John Ericson

When I was contacted about playing in the orchestra for Guadalupe, a new concert opera by ASU colleague James DeMars, I was immediately interested as he mentioned that the performing ensemble would also include several leading Native American artists including in particular R. Carlos Nakai. My first year at ASU I was contacted to play [...]

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