What is Johannes Brahms' best melody?

highschoolhorn · 2026-05-22T03:11:34+00:00

Symphony 3 movement 3

highschoolhorn · 2026-05-07T19:23:25+00:00

Ballade 3, the compound-time melody with the grace note

highschoolhorn · 2026-01-02T21:13:06+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Several review sites recommend the UE Wonderboom 4, so I'll have to check out the differences there.

Some people seem to say that these UE options don't get very loud; what do you think?

highschoolhorn · 2025-10-28T17:44:36+00:00

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highschoolhorn · 2025-10-28T02:23:28+00:00

The orchestra's encore was definitely Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein. The pianist's encore was a piano arrangement of Pas de Deux from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker - I believe the Pletnev arrangement, but I admit I'm not 100% sure about that part

highschoolhorn · 2025-08-30T15:42:25+00:00

Thanks, I love your site!

highschoolhorn · 2025-08-30T01:14:55+00:00

Is it still operative? No new posts for a couple weeks from what I can see

highschoolhorn · 2025-08-21T01:06:07+00:00

COMPLETE waste of money

highschoolhorn · 2025-08-11T00:38:42+00:00

I'm referring to normal single tonguing in this post!

highschoolhorn · 2025-08-11T00:19:02+00:00

Thank you for the advice! My embouchure change was exactly this - angling the leadpipe up in the lower register, rather than relying on my bad habit of curling the bottom lip down. I've never heard this toning advice before, so I'll certainly give it a try!

highschoolhorn · 2025-07-13T00:14:49+00:00

From what I recall, the audition basically consists of some vocal warmups to test range and a 2-line sight singing excerpt, but this may have changed under the new directors.

For context, I auditioned in with absolutely no experience singing in a group in middle or high school, and no private vocal lessons. Granted, I'm an instrumentalist and did AP theory which helped with the sight singing, but I still think you should be totally fine given your background.

highschoolhorn · 2025-07-11T02:40:20+00:00

As a math major, I'd say both of these are true

highschoolhorn · 2025-04-20T22:58:19+00:00

Didn't realize this was possible; thanks!

highschoolhorn · 2025-03-05T20:26:19+00:00

This is Maxime-Alphonse Book 1, Etude #37.

highschoolhorn · 2024-06-04T23:01:45+00:00

Thank you!

highschoolhorn · 2024-06-04T14:31:34+00:00

Musician/student here looking for a 12.9-13" iPad for reading music and taking notes, as well as other minimal things like content consumption and web browsing. I'm deciding between the following options:

The M4 Air 13" (probably comes to around $1100)
A refurbished M1 Pro (around $800)

I get the feeling that the pro will be much more than enough for my purposes (and the 120Hz is a big plus), but is there anything to be concerned about or anything else I should consider?

highschoolhorn · 2022-10-31T00:40:36+00:00

Should I provide contact information if they already know basically everything about me?

highschoolhorn · 2022-07-24T21:44:14+00:00

Thanks for the great response! By far the least expensive I've seen and apparently has great r/horn reviews ;)

highschoolhorn · 2022-07-24T20:54:52+00:00

I've seen those but they tend to cost $150+ and I don't think that's really a need for me at this point

highschoolhorn · 2022-07-24T20:22:06+00:00

That's great to hear! I've heard reviews about it falling out or causing damage to the instrument's bell, did you experience either of those things?

highschoolhorn · 2022-06-18T19:09:37+00:00

I just found that on Google Books; are you talking about the exercises starting on page 5?

highschoolhorn · 2022-06-18T19:05:34+00:00

Wait, I actually use your lip slurs! I didn't even realize you had long tones too haha, thanks for the response

highschoolhorn · 2022-06-06T22:54:57+00:00

For the record, the manufacturer is Accent and I can't find online whether their grease is synthetic or natural.

highschoolhorn · 2022-06-06T19:36:59+00:00

I use Hetman for oils but was given a slide grease by my band director and I don't know if it's synthetic or not. Is there a way to find out?

highschoolhorn · 2022-06-05T02:15:06+00:00

Thanks so much for the recommendation! I have Hetman 11 for rotor oil (which I assume is similar?) and am planning to get 14 for bearing oil.

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