There’s good and bad pops music. Good is well written and arranged, with idiomatic orchestration. Bad is not, especially when individual parts are awkward. Difficult is okay, but poorly written becomes awkward and difficult to pull off. We have played…
Naughty Composer
We had the first rehearsal for this weekend’s Holiday Pops concerts with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Ron Jenkins always puts together a fun and balanced program. Both the Symphony Chorus and the Children’s Choir sound great. Now for my little…
Buzzing Reed number 25 on Wikio, Classical Music Blogs
The Buzzing Reed is privileged to be the first to announce the December rankings for classical music blogs from Wikio. Wikio is the number 1 news aggregator and blog-indexing website in Europe, which indexes nearly 200,000 English-language sources. Apparently The…
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Super Long Tones
Once in awhile I take a deep look at long tones. The goal is not just to play long-tones, but to play extremely long, deeply controlled tones with good pitch, sound and control. For us wind players the key is…
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Deep Vacation Slow Practice
Several days visiting my father in Charleston, SC has allowed me the time to explore the edges of my technique. Relishing the open schedule, and sunny warmth of South Carolina, I had a great practice session yesterday. I always begin…