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.

Monday, 18 July 2011

A student experience of Stockhausen

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When I was a student at the Royal College of Music in London, one of the professors strongly held the opinion that no potential profession...
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Sunday, 17 July 2011

Sometimes, less is more

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I had a thoroughly enjoyable concert last Friday with the Hillingdon Philharmonic Orchestra. As it was the 25th anniversary of the foundatio...
Saturday, 14 May 2011

St Clements Wind Ensemble in Edinburgh

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The programme for St. Clements Wind Ensemble in Edinburgh this August has now been worked out. And it is a very ambitious set of works! Fr...
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Saturday, 7 May 2011

Student attitudes at the London College of Music

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I've been asked to play a concert with the LCM (London College of Music) Community Sinfonia, performing Shostakovich 5th Symphony at St ...
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Contradictions and meanderings

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James Boldin has recently published an article on his blog, in part about playing softly . In it he quotes various authorities on what you n...
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Thursday, 31 March 2011

Brent Symphony Orchestra centenary

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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of taking part in Brent Symphony Orchestra's centenary concert . I'm not a regular member o...
Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Learning how to play transposed parts

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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...
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