Trumpet Matters

Four years of school are over, just like that! Congratulations! You can't believe you finished the whole thing ! Four years of the tr...

Keep your ears open for lessons you can learn! They won't cost you anything. They are out there floating around during your day. But ...

Back in the 60s as an eager junior high/high school student, I was still tuning in to "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows ...

One summer at Blossom I overheard John Mack the former principal oboe of the Cleveland Orchestra say something to a chamber music ensemble h...

You are only as good as your worst day! Greatness actually does strike all of us on occasion! We honestly consider that on any given day, w...

Does anyone remember " The Twilight Zone "? Ah, the 60s! . . . well. "Imagine, if you will", walking into a game of the...

Deep in the balcony students' binoculars are transfixed on the orchestra stage. The famous horn solo is approaching! Next, the beautifu...

Paavo Jarvi is great at signaling that the musical line needs direction. He would encourage us not to let the notes "get stuck....

There it is, that audition excerpt list staring back at you from your stand. You've been working through those orchestra fragments for ...

" Wince, You're on Candid Microphone" On campus there has been a TV crew preparing a news feature on "The Practice Habits...

What should your playing have in common with a loaf of bread? Answer: all the notes have the same quality regardless of how thinly sliced t...

Great players never fail to impress by their finesse in the softest dynamics! Perhaps better known for their power surges, bolts of pizazz ...

Back in my tennis obsessive-compulsive days I tended to avoid back hand shots, preferring to smash as best as I could only with my mighty fo...