I have played a lot of horns. I switched to the horn in high school and first played a school 6D and then an 8D. … Read More ›
A pair of tapes I was anxious to hear as part of an ongoing cassette tape conversion project were the tapes of my junior and … Read More ›
It is the season for Christmas pops concerts. This season I will be playing perhaps the best one of these in the Phoenix area, the … Read More ›
A point to emphasize for students considering how to play in auditions for schools — and everywhere else! — is that dynamics come in categories. … Read More ›
I played two rehearsals recently as a sub with the ASU Sinfonietta, our second orchestra; they are working on a concert that includes a movement … Read More ›
Yesterday one of my recent students made the finals in the Principal Horn audition for the Arizona Opera Orchestra. Winning would have been better but … Read More ›
How many currently active brass quintets have reached 40 years? Not many, the only three that I know of are the American Brass Quintet (1960), … Read More ›
I mention the X factor rather often in my teaching. It is a term I first heard a colleague at the Brevard Music Center use in … Read More ›
I was looking recently in the website of my ASU oboe colleague Martin Schuring and noticed that he had a new article on Preparing for … Read More ›
When you are missing something in a passage that you want to play how many times should you play it in a practice session before … Read More ›