Ensemble skills for brass musicians – presentation notes
January 27, 2024: Brass day class Robert Fraser: ENSEMBLE ETIQUETTE: GROUP DYNAMICS AND MUSIC – “Playing well is only part of it”
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MESA 2023 Presentation: Confronting Perfection in the Teaching Studio
Blier-Carruthers, Amy. “The Problem of Perfection in Classical Recording: The Performer’s Perspective.” The Musical Quarterly 103, no. 1–2 (December 1, 2020): 184–236. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdaa008. Bose, Sudip. “In Praise of Flubs: The Pursuit of Perfection Has Taken All the Personality out of Recorded Classical Music.” The American Scholar 74, no. 1 (2005): 115–18. Burns, David D. Feeling …
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How to practice – presentation notes
These notes are for a presentation I offered at Orchestra North Owen Sound on July 16/18, 2018. Feel free to take a look and use these resources if you’re interested in upping your own practice game! Resources Metacognition (PDF): an exploration of various limits to self-knowledge Christine Carter, Athletic Advantage from The Strad Wynton Marsalis, Twelve …
Happy Canada day! A round-up of Canadian music for trumpet
Tomorrow, Canada celebrates its 150th birthday. I love this country (warts and all): I’m proud of our arts and culture, our society, our national quirks and I’m especially proud to contribute to Canada’s future by working and teaching here. Many classical musicians in Canada feel detached from their nation’s composers. I think that’s especially true …
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Sunday Scales 16: Stamp (part 3)
Let’s take a look at another Stamp exercise, this time from the Supplemental Studies: Yowza.
Sunday Scales 13: Mr. Schlossberg
Max Schlossberg is primarily known to brass players today as the “author” of the book Daily Drills and Technical Exercises. This book contains exercises by Schlossberg, however it was only put together after his death by his son-in-law Harry Freistadt, and it can be a bit confusing to work through. In his day, though, Schlossberg was a …