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Getting that ‘Wow’ Factor in Your Playing

Without a doubt one of the best practice techniques for improvement on a wind instrument is long tones. A teacher of mine once professed...

Firebird Awkward Cues

Awkward cues The final horn solo in Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite can be a touchy spot made even more precarious with a clumsy cue from...

A Look at the U.S. Army Band Manual

The U.S. Army remains one of the largest and oldest employers for musicians in America, and last summer I was happy to find a...

Siegfried Horn Calls from Götterdämmerung

To wrap up my series on the Siegfried horn calls within Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, today's article features the calls in Wagner's...

Your Digital Footprint and its Future Impact

A subject that keeps coming up in trending web sites that monitor business and social networking, is social media and its impact on a...

Mouthpiece Pressure and other Tall Tales

I have argued that when mixing vague religiosity, sports metaphors and loose technical knowledge into a brass teaching method, there can be hidden dangers....

Humor: The Mind of the Horn Player

If you liked this article, you might also like "Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Horn-Geek."

Jazz Horn Legends

Watkins and Ruff In a television program from 1959 featuring the Miles Davis Quintet and the Gil Evans Orchestra, we get to see Julius Watkins...

Anatomy of a Music Stand

In the same vein as previous articles where I posted pictures of my workstation and mouthpiece pouch contents, today's article highlights some of the...

Educational disconnect

Discontent and disconnect From the president of the New England Conservatory comes a very interesting article that starts in Detroit and ends in the conservatory...