Posted on 05 December 2011. Tags: bach, christmas, christmas oratorio, handel, images, messiah, music, xmas
Christmas is always a busy time for us brass players, with so many different performance [...]
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Posted on 19 September 2011. Tags: 5 tips, audition, brass, erin ellenburg, failure, how to, mistake, music, recover, rejection
Disappointment is a part of life, and it’s a big part of being a musician. [...]
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Posted on 06 August 2011. Tags: bizzare, music, space, sun
Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have managed to record for the first time the [...]
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Posted on 03 August 2011. Tags: art, daniel barkley, lady gaga, music, thom yorke
Being a response to some statements taken from interviews by notable alternative rock and pop [...]
Posted in Opinion
Posted on 15 July 2011. Tags: classical, music, orchestra, tradition
By Joe Young I often forget that simply discussing music with other musicians brings me [...]
Posted in Opinion
Posted on 30 March 2011. Tags: art, creativity, modern, music, philosophy, post modern
I am finally getting around to the topic of aesthetics, opinion, and in fact (partly) [...]
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Posted on 07 March 2011. Tags: horn, music, transpose, transposition, trumpet
If you have aspirations of playing in an orchestra, playing from a Real Book, or [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2010. Tags: behaviour, bias, mind, music, psychology, trombone, trumpet
There is no slow way to answer this question as it is very simple; I [...]
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Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: music, music industry, offline, online, promotion
Steve Nelson of musicsupportedhere.com recently interviewed me for an article on his site. The interview [...]
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Posted on 08 September 2010. Tags: artistry, michael barkley, music, vision
I have recently been thinking about deeper meanings in music; how abstract playing an instrument [...]
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