I'll admit that I'm a movie music nerd and a fan of the usual suspects (Williams, Horner, Howard, Zimmer, etc.). Some others on the less...

In early 1914, Holst heard a performance of Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra. This seminal experience along with a suggestion from...

I've played on the same mouthpiece since I was in high school - my teacher handed me an old Conn Helleberg style mouthpiece when I was...

I wrote something yesterday that was confusing even to me when I read it again today. Mea culpa. The offending sentence was: Wright notes...

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book comprises nearly 300 works composed for keyboard by notable English court composers from the time of Queen...

Too soon? I'm having too much fun with these titles. I promised to talk about the decision to transpose this movement of Robert...

One of the things I appreciated about teaching was that I learned things about my own playing by observing and articulating ideas to...

Sadly, only a few of the sketches by Victor Hartmann that inspired Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition have survived. We must rely on...

There's nothing quite like a well voiced, well spaced, well balanced chord written for brass when played in tune. Great brass players...

The temptation when making a brass arrangement of late 19th & early 20th century marches is to take the road more traveled - to "arrange"...