Tone quality was a big issue for me this year (Fall 2007), it wasn’t
until I recorded the slow movement of Hindemith's Second Organ sonata for
my "Beyond Favoirtes" album, in late November 2007 that I felt I had my tone
back after a hard music festival in August.
I
now have the belief that one must warm up with as beautiful tone
as one can achieve. You can always play aggressive and loud with
adequate tone, but the sweeter moments don’t just suddenly
have beautiful tone. I now recommend starting with the stuff
like the Hindemith slow movement and then move on to the flashy
stuff, not the other way around!
Coming Soon:
My book about horn playing that has lessons for all musicians, not just Natural hornist:
Thoughts on playing the
Natural Horn Well
AND a three volume set of accuarcy studies for Horn Players.
