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Hornmasters: Berv on Mouthpieces

PUBLISHED: February 18, 2010, John Ericson

Harry Berv has a number of thoughts on mouthpieces in A Creative Approach to the French Horn, noting in the following passage how the mouthpiece over time creates a “groove in the lips.” The correct mouthpiece is important in producing a beautiful tone and in adding strength and endurance to the embouchure. It will influence [...]

Berv on Endurance, and the Berv Brothers play Wagner

PUBLISHED: July 7, 2009, John Ericson

Following up on yesterday, I really do find the “response” of Harry Berv to The Art of French Horn Playing interesting. I would propose that most books written about the horn after 1956 are in one way or another a response to Farkas. Berv in his A Creative Approach to the French Horn feels that [...]

Hornmasters: Harry Berv on Fingerings

PUBLISHED: July 6, 2009, John Ericson

One name not too familiar today in horn circles in that of Harry Berv. He wrote a rather interesting horn method, published in 1977, A Creative Approach to the French Horn. Harry Berv and his horn playing brothers Arthur and Jack joined the NBC Symphony in 1938, having previously performed in the Philadelphia Orchestra. At [...]

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Debbie Reynolds and the NY Philharmonic: a Look at LIFE Photography

PUBLISHED: November 24, 2008, Bruce Hembd

Beautiful photography from Life magazine. I was a little kid when Look and Life were regular staples in magazine aisles. Both were periodicals devoted to photojournalism. Among the great photographers that worked for these magazines was famed director Stanley Kubrick – a staff photographer for Look for about 5 years. Look magazine was the first [...]

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