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A Summer to Remember—1983; An Interview with Bruce Richards
Bruce Richards recently wrote in his site Living the Dream of “Four Summers That Changed My Life.” I was particularly interested to read this...
Hornmasters on Mouthpiece Placement
I changed my embouchure twice in college, the first time right after my sophomore year and the second during my Doctoral studies. It is...
6 Survival Tips on Dealing with Criticism
College is starting up again and for students new to college, this means a brand new environment and an unfamiliar horn teacher.
As with anything...
What Motivates Horn Players?
The question of motivations has long been of interest to me and closely relates to topics on which Bruce has written as well. Bruce...
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....
Technical Materials II: Standard Materials I Teach From
As mentioned in my previous post, in terms of materials I started out as I was taught but over the years began to experiment...
Tonguing is a big key to everything, especially accuracy
The Public Service Announcement of the weekend is on the topic of tonguing. There is a lot of dogma on tonguing out there to...
Hornmasters: Berv on Right Hand Position
As was seen in his discussion of left hand position, for Harry Berv in A Creative Approach to the French Horn one central point...
Hornmasters: Farkas on Right Hand Position
Most active horn teachers have read the Farkas book at some point but mostly not recently. One thing that you may have missed was...