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Horn Matters
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HORN MATTERS is an online resource with a focus on French horn and brass related topics and on the business of performing classical music.
- Added on: Sep 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: horndoggie
- Listed in: Music Musical Instruments
- Tags: music classical music brass horn french horn playing tips
Recent Posts
Before Farkas: Preparatory Instructor for French Horn (1937) on Tonguing
Part 3 of 3 in the series "Before Farkas" In working on a project this past year related to Philip Farkas I have had a nagging feeling that there has to be some back story, some reason why he said some of the things he said in The Ar...
Horns for the Holidays
Christmas is coming! A CD that was out last year but I did not highlight then is Horns for the Holidays by Quadre. Their description of the CD reads, Horns for the Holidays, our third CD recorded in 2008, features Hollywood superstar horn player, Ja...
“Improvement, not Perfection”
Another article from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dated 2/7/05. In my entry for 1/20/05 Three times or a thousand times? I address a presentation I recently heard that seriously pushed the concept of attempting to play things correctly 1000 time...
Enterprise, Creativity, and the Digital Culture
One new blog that caught my attention is The Musician’s Way Blog, which is part of a companion site to a new book, The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness by Gerald Klickstein. A recent article there is on the t...
Video: An Unusual Performance of Mozart 4
A friend this morning sent me a link to this video with the note “This is sort of interesting.” Wrong! Thank you for the link but this performance is terribly, horribly misguided! At YouTube it just notes this clip as “Sergei Nakariakov in M...
Three Times or a Thousand Times?
Another post from the original Horn Notes Blog, dated 1/20/05 and timely for those working on upcoming performances or auditions. When you are missing something in a passage that you want to play how many times should you play it in a practice sessio...
