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Vacation Beards and 2010 New Year Resolutions

Irritation and humor. During a week of vacation like this one I can boycott shaving. I let it all go for one whole week and...

Tips to Consider to Improve Your Auditions

I judged two concerto competitions on Thursday, which reminded me of this post full of tips on taking all types of auditions from the original...

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Horn Parts from Solo Repertoire The works below are the most standard solos for the horn from the 18th and 19th centuries that are available for...

Mean Horn Teachers who wrote Etudes

There are some really great etudes out there that have a few things in common, besides being hard. The main thing is they have...

Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Horn-Geek

How to get a horn geek riled up. Horn aficionados and geeks as a general rule, are a pretty easy-going breed. But if we get...

Mr. Kopprash, Most Revered, Respected and Holy

Last week, I posted a picture on Facebook sent to me from Tina Barkan. It was a snapshot of a humorous T-shirt from the...

Classic study materials: The Pottag Preparatory Melodies

One classic publication I have come back to recently is Preparatory Melodies to Solo Work for French Horn edited by Max P. Pottag. This...

Another Meaning to Concentration

Like an apple a day. Some of the best practices techniques involve thinking (and playing) outside of the box. The well-known teacher, pedagogue and performer...

Top Ten: Cross Training Methods

Why limit yourself to horn-specific methods and etudes? Getting tired of your etude books? Kopprasch, Maxime-Alphonse, and Gallay are among the staples of the French...

Top Ten: Favorite Collections

Reviews of some of my favorite things. Over the years, a handful of French horn music collections and editions have gotten my repeated attention; these...

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