SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Things horn teachers say’

How Much Should an Advanced Horn Player Practice?

PUBLISHED: October 16, 2010, John Ericson

From the archive of the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, dated 10/1/04, this article outlines a general approach to practice. At the time at ASU the ensembles schedule had a number of horn players in rehearsals for band and orchestra back-to-back a couple days a week, so I was, as related below, telling some hornists [...]

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Are Highly-Rated Horn Professors Overrated?

PUBLISHED: June 20, 2010, John Ericson

A few days ago I saw a link to an interesting article with the title “Study: highly-rated professors are. . . overrated.” The article was part of the College Inc. series in the Washington Post, and author Daniel de Vise looks at the topic of student evaluations and at a bigger question, that of are [...]

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Before Farkas: Preparatory Instructor for French Horn (1937) on Tonguing

PUBLISHED: December 6, 2009, John Ericson

Preparatory Instructor for French Horn by Moore and Sieg

In working on a project this past year related to Philip Farkas I have had a nagging feeling that there has to be some back story, some reason why he said some of the things he said in The Art of French Horn Playing the way he did. Reading any book you know the author [...]

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Passing of Abe Torchinsky and Giving Students Complexes

PUBLISHED: November 29, 2009, John Ericson

Over at TubaHead I noted an article on the recent passing of tubist Abe Torchinsky at age 89. My first contact with him was as a listener of this classic recording, of Gabrieli performed by members of the brass sections of the Phildelphia, Cleveleand, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Besides being a long time member of [...]

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Before Farkas: Anton Horner on Tonguing

PUBLISHED: August 18, 2009, John Ericson

Kendall Betts in a recent post to the “Ask the Pros” section of the IHS website pointed out a great quotation on tonguing from Anton Horner from 1939. First, the quote: Attack each note with your tongue as though you had a small hair or tiny piece of thread on the end of your tongue [...]

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Things Horn Teachers Say: PC on Farkas

PUBLISHED: June 27, 2009, John Ericson

I have begun a project that involves closely reading a number of horn method books this summer. While I don’t at this point want to get really specific it is very interesting, it is not hard to find examples of technical methods recommended by one horn teacher being the complete opposite of that of other [...]

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