Every year I have to reject a number of applicants at Arizona State. Every horn teacher does. It is a part of the job that … Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
This post, dated 6/7/2004, is from my original HTML Horn Notes Blog, one of the very first posts I put up, It contains good insights … Read More ›