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.

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Learning how to play transposed parts

›
If you play professionally, or even if you play in an amateur way in a community orchestra,you are going to come across horn parts in keys o...
5 comments:
Friday, 14 January 2011

The value of music education

›
There's an article on the Guardian website today What's happening to the future of music education? about the future of music provi...
1 comment:
Tuesday, 11 January 2011

My father, Roger West

›
Over on my other blog, I have published the tribute I gave to my father, Roger West , at his funeral yesterday, 10th January 2011.
Friday, 7 January 2011

The emotion of music making

›
Last month there was an article in the Guardian titled 'The pull of love' – or why music can be a quasi-spiritual practice . In it, ...
Monday, 13 December 2010

Different kinds of tone

›
One aspect of horn playing which I feel is inadequately stressed is control over tone colour and how this can contribute to the effect of th...
2 comments:
Sunday, 7 November 2010

About "bumping"

›
In the UK, the assistant 1st horn is colloquially called the "bumper". The origin of this usage is a mystery to me, but that is wh...
Tuesday, 2 November 2010

An all Russian concert

›
In October, I played the first concert of the season with Hillingdon Philharmonic. Obviously a brass player has got at the committee, becaus...
1 comment:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Jonathan West
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.