John Ericson

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Hornmasters: Yancich on the Second and Third Warm-Up

One type of warm-up that is rarely discussed in print is the second and third warm-up of the day. One of the few to...

Podcast: Practice More Effectively by Listening to Music

The latest episode (120) of The Mellocast is on the topic of practice, and one of the main points made is that you can...

On Making Recorded Auditions

It is audition season for schools and festivals. Recently a video and an article made the rounds featuring one particular video audition this year...

Horn 101: Does My Horn have a Bb Tuning Slide?

This topic has come up for me at this point in many horn lessons over the years. The short answer is that your horn...

Hornmasters: Farkas and Schuller on the Warm-Up

There are a number of topics where it is particularly interesting to compare and contrast the approaches of Philip Farkas and Gunther Schuller. Being...

Brahms and Modern Performance on the Natural Horn

Brahms wrote for the natural horn in all of his works but wrote for it in a period when the valved horn was coming...

Understanding the Hornmasters on the Warm-Up

In this series of Hornmasters posts I have presented and commented upon quotes from classic horn method books on topics in the order presented...

Joseph Meifred and the Roots of Teaching Valved Horn Technique

One thing that has probably come through in Horn Matters is that an interest of mine is the history of how the horn has...

Notes on Playing Assistant Horn

I am not playing assistant but I am playing in the section of the Phoenix Symphony again this week. The post below is from...

Review: Orchestra Excerpt CDs

Although we all know it is coming soon, I was recently struck by the statement “The CD really is dead” in a post in...

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