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A Summer to Remember—1983; An Interview with Bruce Richards

PUBLISHED: September 2, 2010, John Ericson

Bruce Richards recently wrote in his site Living the Dream of “Four Summers That Changed My Life.” I was particularly interested to read this as I was there for one of them! That summer was 1983 and we were both students of David Wakefield at the Aspen Music Festival. The previous summer I had also [...]

Summer Festival Study (and Summer Study in General)

PUBLISHED: June 19, 2010, John Ericson

It has been a while since I last visited the archive of posts from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog. This post dates all the way back to 8/12/2004 and was written right after a summer of teaching and performing at the Brevard Music Center. It speaks to what you can do with your summer [...]

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Tips on Auditioning for a Summer Festival (or anything else)

PUBLISHED: January 23, 2010, John Ericson

Yet more very timely insider information on taking auditions, in a post from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dated 3/25/05. Another little project for me now is listening to and ranking all the horn auditions for summer study at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. We have some good, strong applicants; I look [...]

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Striving for Tone

PUBLISHED: June 22, 2008, John Ericson

Another post from the archive, this dates to 7/2/2004 and is a favorite of mine. As I type these words I am at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina for my fifth summer, teaching half of the 16 student horn studio (9 college students and 7 advanced high school students–there are two divisions of [...]

Suggested Summer Projects

PUBLISHED: May 1, 2008, John Ericson

Our first day of brass juries is today–the semester is nearly over. In relation to that I have been speaking with a number of students about summer plans and projects. I know I have plenty of plans for my summer, including in particular working on several new books and practicing natural horn (more on that [...]

The Summer Excerpt Project

PUBLISHED: July 24, 2007, John Ericson

A recent E-mail from David Wakefield reminded me a summer where I had a “special project,” an excerpt project, a great project for any student reading this during the summer who is not off at a summer festival or event. It was the summer between my Freshman and Sophomore years of college. I was playing [...]

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