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.

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Sexual abuse in music schools

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Child sex abuse is more normally the topic of my other blog , where I have been working to address the child sex abuse scandal at Ealing Abb...
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Monday, 11 June 2012

Playing a concert on one rehearsal

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Last month, I was asked to play a concert with the North Downs Sinfonia . They don't happen to have any regular horns at the moment, and...
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Beecham on rehearsing

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I've just come across this quote from Sir Thomas Beecham on rehearsing. If only more conductors could rehearse his way! There's o...
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Saturday, 28 April 2012

Choosing concert programmes

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Choosing a programme for an amateur orchestral concert is a considerable art. There are quite a few things that need to be considered. Fir...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Any horns in Hillingdon?

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If you're a horn player, you live in Hillingdon or anywhere in west London or thereabouts, and want to join an orchestra, please let me ...
Saturday, 31 December 2011

Mendelssohn Nocturne

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On November 12th, Hillingdon Philharmonic played a concert - 3 movements from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (the Overture,...
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Sunday, 11 December 2011

Strauss at Brent

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I've been horrifically busy since the last week of October, with work, a huge eruption of publicity on the child protection issues I...
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