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Two podcast episodes are the result of one of my regular summer projects, which is working slowly through my old cassette tapes of performances, and converting them to MP3 files.
This past week I met with a recent ASU horn grad who won a position to play this summer with the National Repertory Orchestra (Yay!). A wonderful opportunity for them, and great to hear also that a summer orchestra was performing again.
His going to Colorado soon reminded me that my summer in the NRO — then still known as the Colorado Philharmonic — was 35 summers ago! 1986. I had reorganized my tapes last summer, now have a cassette player in my office again, and could easily find my half-dozen tapes from the NRO.
Among them, the tape with Till on it stood out. When I pulled it out my immediate thought was that it would have some mistake on it. Why I thought that I don’t know, I literally have not listened to this Till in probably 30 years.
Putting it in to listen was such a pleasant surprise. Wow, this was really good, and really all the tapes I found from that summer are quite good. What a great summer, one that I’m sure was part of how I got to ASU eventually. I hope the players in the group all have strong playing experiences.
If you want to hear my Till, performed at age 23, I included it on not one but two new episodes of the Horn Notes Podcast. I believe that both are good summer listening. The first one (episode 45) focuses more on my teaching method as posted in my brand new personal website, johnericsonhorn.com. The second podcast (episode 46) focuses on excerpts, including Till, Brahms 2, and the Janacek Sinfonietta. Both are available anywhere you listen to podcasts, or the direct link is here: hornnotes.libsyn.com/
In the cases of all the excerpts you will hear in these episodes, I found them an encouragement to revisit. But for all listeners I hope my commentary provides some good practical insights toward practice and better horn playing.
As I mentioned my new personal website, I would also update readers that I completely rebuilt my Horn Notes Edition website and also worked over the venerable Horn Articles Online significantly. If you have not visited either in a while, check them at the links.
