Author: DarkHo_Admin
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Too Many Irons
I think this is the most tardy I have been in posting my weekly blog which is very frustrating. All I can say in my defence is that I have been busy with other things both family and business. I have too many irons in the fire sometimes and when something has to give it…
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We Will Remember Them!
It is that time of year when many of us trumpet and cornet players ready ourselves to do one of the loneliest jobs in music; playing the Last Post and Reveille at a service of remembrance. The last time I did this was at a civic gathering the night before Her Majesty’s funeral in Thirsk…
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That Late for Christmas Feeling
I am feeling rather pleased this week as I have added my Suite for Trumpet to the Dark Horse stable of music for solo trumpet. To be honest it would probably work well for a Bb baritone or euphonium too. After a slight mishap in the ordering of the pages in the proof, which was…
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Old Forms and Modern Vocabulary
It is one of those quite exciting periods of time when you hand your work over to others for the finishing touches prior to publication. In some ways the work is done, yet there is that nagging uncertainty about the whole affair whilst you wait to see the proofs. Monday is proof day, and if…
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Late Entries
It is Monday and I should have had this post published on Friday. As is often the case I am running a little late. You know that feeling you have when you are in a rehearsal and the conductor says they want to start at a point somewhere in the score, and by the time…
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The Power of Saying “Yes”!
It is approaching that time of year again when thoughts are turning to the annual act of Remembrance. I am always struck by the fact that the whole country unites with one mind to honour the memory of those who lost their lives to protect our freedom. As a trumpet player I have had the…
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Behind a Successful Man
What a week this has been. After a short delay whilst my young pupils get used to being in secondary school I have returned to a little bit of teaching alongside my childcare duties looking after my baby grandson. I marvel at Bach with all his children and wonder how he ever managed to write…
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Life is a Journey
What a week this has been. I travelled all the way to Devon and back to see my Niece in the show Kinky Boots and it was well worth it. I was also flooded with memories of travelling to south Wales back in my youth when I was at the Welsh College of Music in…
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Show Time
I am writing this on the Wednesday morning before the Friday I normally post for two reasons, neither of which is the fact that Friday is going to be the 13th! The first reason is because I have just completed the last few bars of my work in progress which I can now reveal is…
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Not so much rules as guidelines
Ever since I was a little boy I have been more interested in how things work than in the things themselves. Imagine being more interested in the rules and skills involved in playing a sport than the sport itself; that is me! I was always taking things apart and putting them back together, especially anything…