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Review: Horn Playing from the Inside Out. Part III, on Auditions and Applying...
The part of this book that most fully lines up with my memory of studies with Eli Epstein is Chapter 10, “Empowered Approach to Orchestral Auditions.” This part of the book, contained within a larger...
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Horn Repertoire Week 3: Introducing the Natural Horn
Understanding the natural horn is a key to understanding the big picture of horn repertoire, so playing the natural horn is our next topic. A brief introduction may be found here: Introducing the...
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Five Easy Ways to Pimp Your Horn without Breaking the Bank
Whether it be a new mouthpiece or leadpipe, upgrading a horn can be a fun and worthwhile investment. For someone on a budget especially, customization and updating can improve your playing without...
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A View of the Horn Day at Western Michigan
This year I was honored to be the guest artist at Horn Day 2013 at Western Michigan University, hosted by Dr. Lin Foulk. Horn day events are held at many colleges and universities, and this was a great...
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On Slide Inserts
One topic that comes up occasionally talking to other hornists is that of slide inserts on the horn. Slide inserts are made from cut off bits of slide tubing, such as seen here. What you do is take the...
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Horn Repertoire Week 4: Review of Literature for Horn in the Baroque Period
This week we get into the first of several readings that were initially posted last year specifically for the repertoire course at ASU. My overview of the horn before 1750 (the very first article in...
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From the Mailbag: What Does It Take to “Make It”
This question was so beautifully written that I will leave it exactly as it came in: Hi there! I’m a Junior in high school, and I’m the first horn at my school. When I hear movie soundtracks, I get the...
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Ouch! My Finger Hurts (and I Don’t Know Why!?)
About five days ago the index finger on my left hand became extremely irritated. Over the course of a few days this irritation swelled to dramatic proportions and over the weekend, I was incapable of...
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Horn Repertoire Week 5: The Descant Horn and Approaches to Baroque Literature...
One goal this semester is to use repertoire as not only a broad overview of history but also to look at performance of literature that is encountered often by high level performers but is not often...
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Summer Festivals: Only a visitor now, and a look back at the beginning of a...
Recent summers I have been privileged to serve on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp and also the Brevard Music Center. If you are thinking about summer study, I really value it, as I outline...
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Video: Reicha Trios, Horn, Bass Trombone, Tuba
Back in December I posted an article on the Reicha horn trios. In that article I mentioned that I had been looking at these recently for performance with my ASU faculty colleagues Douglas Yeo (bass...
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Horn Repertoire Week 6: Who Invented Hand-Horn Technique, and the Early...
This week our look at horn history crosses an important boundary The roots of hand horn technique will probably always be shrouded in some mystery, with the main reading for this week looking at the...
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Ask Dave: Who Should I Trust to Re-Plate My Mouthpieces and Rims?
A curious reader asks: I have several mouthpieces and rims that need to be re-plated. Should I trust local sources such as jewelers to have it done, or should I send them to a mouthpiece maker? I hate...
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Video: Introducing the Wagner Tuba
Over in my Horn Articles Online site for years I have had a Wagner tuba page, and in 2007 one of the first group of publications from Horn Notes Edition was Playing the Wagner Tuba. My first...
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An Interview on Orchestral Horn Auditions. Part I, Background and Preparation
I am contacted periodically by students working on Doctoral projects. I don’t always have time to participate, but in this case the topic intrigued me, on the development of orchestral horn auditions...
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Horn Repertoire Week 7: The Classical Natural Horn
This week we will zero in on the topic of the natural horn in solo and chamber works of Mozart and Haydn. We have a relatively short reading on the topic: The Horn in the Classical Period Read that...
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An Interview on Orchestral Horn Auditions. Part II, at the Audition
This article continues an interview conducted 2/13/13 with Ashley Cumming, a Doctoral student at Indiana University. Part I starts here. THE COMMITTEE AND THE CONDUCTOR Who heard your audition? Was...
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Horn Repertoire Week 8: Approaches to Classical Literature Today
This week the focus of the class is on performance tactics for works that are fairly frequently performed from the Classical and early Romantic period that were for natural horn and lay in the high...
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Brief Review: The Jupiter Hybrid Horn/Mellophone Mouthpiece
Back a few years ago I wrote (at some professional risk) a number of items on the mellophone, including an article on mellophone mouthpiece options in my Horn Articles Online site. Following up on...
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An Interview on Orchestral Horn Auditions. Part III, Technology and...
This article continues an interview conducted 2/13/13 with Ashley Cumming, a Doctoral student at Indiana University. Part I starts here. TECHNOLOGY AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AUDITION How has...
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