Home Inspiration & The Big Picture

Inspiration & The Big Picture

Motivations

Horn-tastic TV Show Themes (I)

The Tony Randall Show theme. On a regular basis, this blog gets visits from people looking for sheet music to "this movie" theme or that...

John Clark, Song of Light–Memories of Horn Calls Past: My First...

One feature of The Horn Call for many years has been reviews of new books and recordings. My first issue had a special, guest...

For the love of mystery and storytelling

Yesterday it felt so good. Everything was great and it was really flowing. I was on top of the world! But today ... everything...

On Mentorship and Recovery from Abuse

This photo and the memories associated with it are among my most prized possessions. This is Milan Yancich, the man who saved my creative soul....

Pithy Quotes from Sir Thomas Beecham on Music

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. The humor of Sir Thomas Beecham, though tinged with cynicism,...

A student remembers Franz Strauss

Recently I was asked about the source of a great quote from the last student of Franz Strauss. Having made a solo CD of...

Finding Your Path

Crossroads can have many branches. Many musicians like myself experience a pivotal moment in their lives when they hit the full-time orchestral employment wall and...

Remembering Milan Yancich (1921-2007)

Over the weekend I learned of the passing on Friday of Milan Yancich at the age of 86. A longtime faculty member at Eastman,...

Music and the Brain

A recent study on music and the brain...mmm...brains... A few years ago I took a course on brain development and ever since I have been...

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...