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A big tip of the hat to David Cooper, principal horn of the Chicago Symphony. A student of mine at ASU (thanks Jeremy!) pointed me to his YouTube channel, where he has posted in the past month 20 (!) new videos with quite substantial content to listen to. In particular I told my student I’d really get interested if he did an interview with David Griffin, who I got to know in real life just before he joined the Chicago Symphony, and there he was:
Bruce Hembd and I both enjoyed this particular interview. This is nice positive content in a time where a lot of people in our horn world need some positive content.
There are many nice, positive videos popping up on social media of various types, this is a great development, because as I’ve commented this before, some other people seem to have it as their personal mission to ruin Facebook, etc. Seems like I’m muting someone for 30 days almost every day because they can’t resist sharing their hot take on whatever. I’m certainly spending less and less time on social media, working on non-horn hobbies has been especially good for me as these past weeks of teaching have been a huge challenge.
Stats show people are still finding Horn Matters a safe and positive place to visit, and we intend to keep it that way! And keep your eyes peeled for other positive new horn sources out there, good things can come out of a difficult time.
While on the topic of positive things, the sad news just came out that the IHS Symposium is cancelled for this year, but, saving the summer, the Kendall Betts horn camp will be online, June 22-27, 2020! More info at this link, and perhaps others will take up the challenge of creating viable online camps for brass and horn:
