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  • Good Beginnings

    25 Apr 2013

    I don’t know about you, but the toughest part of performing for me is walking on stage and getting started.…

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  • Brass Player Multitasking (video)

    31 Mar 2013

    Brass player (Mnozil Brass) multitasking; it starts about 4 min. in, but watch the set-up, too. Random posts: The Ravages…

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  • Wagner’s Words on the Use of Valve Horns

    24 Mar 2013

    Here’s a translation of Wagner’s notes at the beginning of the score of Tristan und Isolde regarding the use of…

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  • Super Sarah Web Site

    05 Feb 2013

    Check out the web site of Sarah Willis (of the Berlin Philharmonic) – elegant, spare, great photos – but best…

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  • Excellence = Strength + Skill

    03 Feb 2013

    Olympic records of a hundred years ago resemble high school records of today. What is different is that today athletes…

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  • Joseph Eger (1920-2013)

    25 Jan 2013

    Distinguished horn soloist and conductor Joseph Eger died at the age of 92 on January 13. Read a tribute to…

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  • Free Dissertation (online): Johannes Brahms and the French Horn

    21 Jan 2013

    Stephen Seiffert – Johannes Brahms and the French Horn, University of Rochester, DMA, 1968, 228 p. Random posts: Unburied Treasure…

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  • Arkady and Vadim – Horn & Piano, Alphorn & Piano

    15 Jan 2013

    I love to get a chance to (re)tell my Arkady stories… In the late ’80s I was writing a series…

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  • Radovan & Strauss 2

    05 Jan 2013

    A video of one of my and everyone’s favorite hornists – Radovan Vlatkovic – performing R. Strauss’s Concerto for Horn…

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  • Who Plays Durk, Sorley, Kruspe, McCracken, Finke, Cantesanu, Knopf, Patterson, or Cornford?

    01 Jan 2013

    Who plays a Durk,  Sorley, Kruspe, McCracken, Finke, Cantesanu, Knopf,  Patterson, or Cornford ?  (from Who Plays What. Players may appear on…

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