Author: Jonathan Allen
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Alain Trudel: New Post
Canadian virtuoso Alain Trudel was recently appointed as Music Director of Orchestra London (London, Ontario, Canada). Congratulations!
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Web Resources: Will Kimball on Breathing
Dr. Will Kimball, Professor of Trombone at Brigham Young University, is an expert on breathing and how to increase lung capacity. Check out his research here: http://www.kimballtrombone.com/breathing/
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Web Resource: Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon recently announced their Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. This service provides 5 gigabytes of free storage to all users with an Amazon.com account. If you purchase one MP3 album per year, you get 20gigs of space (additional space is priced at $1 per gig per year, up to 1 terabyte). Amazon has provided an…
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Orchestral Excerpts on YouTube
One of the great resources available to us is video sharing sites like YouTube. Did you know that there are videos of some of the great trombonists playing orchestral excerpts? I have included a few below: There are many, many more videos of masterclasses, solos, and orchestral performances. Feel free to link to your…
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Apps – Stream iTunes over 3G
Looking for a way to stream your iTunes library over WIFI or 3G? I just picked up StreamToMe. It works great. It automatically picks up your local (wifi) iTunes libraries, but you manually re-add your library in order to get it to work over 3G. The app is $2.99 and works on iPhone, iPod Touch,…
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Cory Mixdorf Residency
Dr. Cory Mixdorf, Assistant Professor of Trombone at Georgia State University, presented a masterclass and recital yesterday at the University of Iowa. The masterclass was based on Dr. Mixdorf’s doctoral thesis – “Programmatic Elements of Orchestral Excerpts.” Using examples from standard orchestral excerpts, Dr. Mixdorf showed how understanding the program of the work can help…
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Web Resources – Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
The Berlin Philharmonic has launched Digital Concert Hall. For 9.9 euro (24 hours), 29 euro (30 days), or 150 euro (12 months), one can subscribe to an entire season and watch all Berlin Philharmonic performances live. The subscription also grants you access to their Concert Archive. There are also many video clips that are free…
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Web Resources – New York Philharmonic Archives
The New York Philharmonic has recently launched the Archive portion of their website. This is an ambitious project that will benefit us musicians greatly. Current content: 1.3 million pages of archives, including scans of printed programs and Bernstein’s scores with notes. Performance History – a complete list of all New York Philharmonic performances, searchable by…
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Larry Zalkind Guest Recital
On January 21, 2011 Larry Zalkind, Principal Trombone of the Utah Symphony, visited the University of Iowa and presented a Masterclass and Recital. Mr. Zalkind played alto, tenor and bass trombone. He was assisted by Réne Lecuona and Jason Sifford on piano and Jonathan Allen joined him for the final piece on the recital. The…
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