SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Workshops & Symposiums’

Mini-Review: Brass Instruments from the MIM Collection

PUBLISHED: January 4, 2012, Bruce Hembd

Over the holidays relatives descended in droves upon my homestead, and so to get out of the house we decided to go to the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in north Phoenix for a day-trip. This was my first visit to this museum. Back in May 2010, John wrote about his first visit and he has also given a few [...]

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On Sexism and Things to Not Say in a Master Class

PUBLISHED: November 29, 2011, John Ericson

In updating the Events page recently I noted in the website for the 2012 International Women’s Brass Conference an article by co-host Lin Foulk titled “Why IWBC 2012?” This particular section was one that caught my attention, on her experience with sexism in the brass world and a story from a public master class. I [...]

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An Interesting Trend: Repairs at Workshops

PUBLISHED: August 6, 2011, Dave Weiner

It seems to be an upward trend, but I’ve noticed (and done) more repairs at workshops in recent years. Among the repairs I’ve seen are string replacements, bumper replacements, freeing stuck rotors, dents repaired, chemical cleanings, ultrasonic cleanings, mouthpiece modifications, gold plating of mouthpieces, and water key installations. I’ve yet to see on-site bell cuts, [...]

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IHS San Francisco, Part III: Extreme Variety

PUBLISHED: June 23, 2011, John Ericson

Among the unique ideas of the host for this symposium was to feature Dennis Brain. I was able to tie in with that theme with my session, “A Horn Like Dennis Brain Played,” scheduled at 9:00 AM but then moved 10:00. Dennis Brain is one of those larger than life figures of the horn world [...]

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IHS San Francisco, Part II: Sessions, Trying Horns, and Great Sounds

PUBLISHED: June 22, 2011, John Ericson

Day two for me started out with practice and then attending the session by natural hornist Richard Seraphinoff. I had studied with Rick at IU and had heard that he had a new horn out, the missing link as it were. His session started though by noting four answers to the question of why study [...]

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IHS San Francisco, Part I: How About Those High Notes?

PUBLISHED: June 21, 2011, John Ericson

Last year Horn Matters had fairly detailed day-by-day coverage of IHS Brisbane. This year will be a bit briefer in scope, but not because there is not plenty to report on. The conference for me started on Saturday with meetings of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society. People often ask me what we [...]

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SE Workshop 2011

PUBLISHED: March 6, 2011, John Ericson

The Southeast Horn Workshop for 2011 was held on the campus of ASU! Appalachian State University that is–Boone, NC. It was a great event, hosted by Karen Robertson, with over 350 hornists in attendance. The big one Stepping back a second, it is worth noting that there is only one other regular horn event in [...]

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