John Ericson

Continuing with this series on the letter F and accuracy on the horn, the second elephant in the room is first note accuracy. I don’t...

There are so many topics that fall under the letter F that this is the first of four articles relating to “F” topics, with...

A question came in earlier this year asking generally what are the top 3 horn concertos. With the end of the semester for my...

You know that you need to keep your horn clean. If you are proactive about maintenance you will hardly ever need to have your...

I could also have titled this article “Things I got wrong” in the Geyer Dreaming series (which starts here), or the related article published...

The past year the vast majority of my actual classical music listening has been to LP records. With the recent passing of Hermann Baumann...

To open this brief review, I’ll start with a money quote: The Horn by Renato Meucci and Gabriele Rocchetti is the most significant book on...

Continuing our look at accuracy and the letters D and E, our first topic is the descant horn, which can certainly help accuracy in...

This year I've been listening mostly to LP recordings in my office. In my collection, I have a number of different Mozart concerto recordings,...

In Part I (here) I mentioned that I only recently have had the opportunity to play a Vienna horn that, to my feeling of...