One of the fathers of learning how we learn, Anders Ericsson, passed away last month.
Horn
A collection of the best resources for learning French horn excerpts.
Best Excerpt Materials for Horn
An excellent article from Jason Haaheim about how art and arts orgs are more important now than ever.
The Arts and Social Justice
An update on Jason Sulliman's 1,000-Day Practice Challenge, and what it takes to be good.
A Successful 1,000-Day Practice Challenge
If you’ve been playing horn and active in the online horn community over the past 10 years, you probably remember (or have heard of) HornsAPlenty.com. I remember browsing through the pages of horn listings in the early 2000s. It looked like the business had a great stock of used horns, […]
Sketchy UK Horn Site Shut Down, Horns Still Missing
If you’re reading this from anywhere in America, you’ve probably been caught up one way or another in the protests across the country about the recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and most recently, David McAtee at the hands of the police. Compared to these tragedies, I […]
A Little Hope
David Cooper, recently-appointed principal horn of the Chicago Symphony, on auditions and warm-ups.
David Cooper On Auditions and Warming Up.
Some distractions (and self promotion) for this week!