Bruce Hembd
Nationalism and the traditional French style, I
Lucien Thévet (1914 - 2007) was one of the last practitioners of a unique style of horn playing and recently, some samples of his...
Titanic horn
From the Calgary Beacon:
In Clive Cussler’s classic Raise the Titanic! his protagonist discovers a French horn on the ocean floor which is later confirmed...
Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock in ‘The Trouble with Triples’
In pursuit of a principal horn position in a Star Fleet endorsed symphony orchestra, our intrepid Captain finds himself in a quandary about equipment.
Ready...
David Griffin’s ‘For You’ and the World-Premiere Recording of the Broughton Sonata
A teacher of mine long ago had a terrible nickname for fourth horn players in the orchestra. He called them the "garbage-men of the...
An Interpretive Approach to Siegfried’s Horn Call
A good place to start when studying the horn calls from Siegfried or the Rhine Journey is within the character of Siegfried himself....
Forging the Sword; The End of ‘Siegfried’ Act I
Even with the Long Call aside, playing principal horn in Wagner's horn-tastic opera Siegfried is nothing short of a Herculean task. To help...
Slaying the Dragon; Before & After the Siegfried Horn Call
For the French horn player, there is lots of fun playing to do in the opera Siegfried from Wagner's Ring Cycle. This composition, in...
Arranging chorales, like painting by numbers
For myself as a conservatory undergraduate, four-part chorale writing was slow and sometimes laborious. It was a learning curve fraught with rules and clams.
Later...
First impressions with the Patterson mellophone leadpipe – Mark Taylor
This leadpipe (made by our sponsor Patterson HornWorks) and its angled-bend is something that I have been very curious about.
Thanks to mello-head Mark Taylor,...
Photograph: Study in contrast, II
I have been using this shot as a Facebook profile lately. I love the simplicity.