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Lessons in Vienna, part VIII: Playing the Vienna horn

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. The Conn 8D (K series) I was...

Lessons in Vienna, part VII: The Long Call

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. Then he asked if I had ever...

Lessons in Vienna, part VI: Ein Heldenleben

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. To this point, the notes are...

Lessons in Vienna, part V: Tchaikovsky 5 (and Beethoven)

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. After having worked on several slower, lyric...

Lessons in Vienna, part IV: Brahms 3

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. After finishing with the solos in the...

Lessons in Vienna, part III: Brahms 2 in depth

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. Next he wanted to hear the Brahms...

Lessons in Vienna, part II: Till Eulenspiegel

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. He told me to pull out Till...

Lessons in Vienna, part I: Setting up Lessons with Roland Berger

American hornist and pedagogue Nicholas Smith was able to briefly study in 1977 with Roland Berger (b. 1937), longtime solo hornist of the Vienna...

Remembering my teacher, Mike Hatfield

Who was your most influential teacher? It took me years to realize it, but my most influential teacher was F. Michael Hatfield (1936-2020), my...

Bad Conventional Wisdom, part 5: The mouthpiece

If there is one single piece of advice that has held back more players, it might be this quote from the Farkas book: “If...