Horn Thoughts

One of my passions is music, I play the french horn in a number of amateur ensembles. I've been contributing to a couple of horn mailing lists for several years. In that time, I've written reams of advice and comment, and I think it is about time I tried to put it all together. So starting from today I'm going to put together some of my better pieces on this blog so that I can more easily refer to them and so you can comment on them.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Sea Breeze - getting a new work to its first performance

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Be nice to composers! Composing music is hard work, and I have the greatest of respect for those who do it. It is a kind of creativity I jus...
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Monday, 26 October 2009

Music teaching in the UK

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Over on Horn Matters, Bruce Hembd has put up an article about transposition . In the course of the comments, I've discovered something I...
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Saturday, 24 October 2009

Why I decided not to be a professional musician

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I've loved music almost as long as I can remember. I started having piano lessons when I was 5, with a delightfully kind and gentle teac...
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Thursday, 22 October 2009

Going over to the dark side

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Talking a bit more about conducting, at last year's York Orchestral Course, I decided to try my hand at a little bit of it myself. I had...
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Playing for one of the greats

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I thought I would balance the previous article about a bad experience with a conductor, with one of my very best experiences of working unde...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009

How not to get on in an orchestra

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When I was about 15, the much-loved conductor of my local youth orchestra retired. He was an inspiring character, and managed to get us unsc...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Endurance in orchestra and band rehearsal

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Lyle Sanford has been describing problems with endurance in band rehearsals. His lip went entirely in one - he called it a meltdown , an apt...
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