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I Started on Trumpet

PUBLISHED: August 21, 2010, John Ericson

In 1973 I started sixth grade. That year I also started playing trumpet and this very book was the very first book I used: the First Division Band Method by Fred Weber. We just called it “the red book.” My brother was sorting some music that was in storage in Kansas and sent this to [...]

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Full Coverage of the ITG Australia Conference

PUBLISHED: July 13, 2010, John Ericson

In several ways you can tell that there are more trumpet players than horn players out there. If you were to base this on Facebook alone however horns rule the brass at this time. The ITA, ITEA, and ITG all have no official Facebook fan page that I can locate, while for horn there are [...]

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Why Some Music is Better Recorded than Live

PUBLISHED: June 24, 2010, John Ericson

While a few posts ago I made a case for live music, actually there is a good bit of music that probably is best heard recorded. One thing I noticed over the years after finishing my music degrees was I listened less and less to recordings of Classical music of the type I might actually [...]

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Recordings, Trumpet

Trumpet Video: Tre-Méndez

PUBLISHED: February 7, 2010, John Ericson

One unique thing we have at the Arizona State University School of Music is the Rafael Méndez Library, in honor of the legendary trumpet soloist, of which the online version may be found here. As is noted there, “The Library was established for the purpose of providing precise and complete information about the life and [...]

Video: An Unusual Performance of Mozart 4

PUBLISHED: December 3, 2009, John Ericson

A friend this morning sent me a link to this video with the note “This is sort of interesting.” Wrong! Thank you for the link but this performance is terribly, horribly misguided! At YouTube it just notes this clip as “Sergei Nakariakov in Moscow Concervatory Great Hall with Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra plays Mozart’s Horn Concerto No.4, 2d [...]

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Mozart, Trumpet

Video: High Note Trumpet National Anthem

PUBLISHED: July 21, 2009, John Ericson

One question I was asked recently was about some of the “Random Links” in the links list at  the Horn Notes Blog. Were they just randomly generated? No, actually they were items I found interesting for various reasons but certainly were a random grouping. One of the more random items was the “High Note Trumpet [...]

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What Horn Players Think About Trumpet Players

PUBLISHED: November 9, 2006, John Ericson

This week I led a brass sectional with the ASU Symphony Orchestra brass section. At the end of the sectional I was asked I believe jokingly by a trumpet player a question something like “what do horn players think about trumpet players.” At first I gave the general honest answer, we like them, we are [...]

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Intonation, Trumpet
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