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The IHS is looking for our next Paper Archivist! Our archives are housed at the Eastman School of Music, but you don't need to be geographically located near there to [...]

Note: Biographies of the Honorary Members and Punto Award recipients appear on the IHS website. Hermann Baumann (1934-2023) 'Baumann is an excellent musician, both as a soloist and as a [...]

Scores and sound files to the works referenced in this article can be accessed online at jamesnicholashornmusic.com/the-mozart-project/ The background: An idyllic few days in Bloomington, Indiana, June 1980; the setting [...]

Douglas Hill and Bernhard Scully have contributed so much to the art of horn playing that it's difficult to provide an adequate summary in a few brief paragraphs. Hill, an [...]

January 2021, the middle of the pandemic, was a dark time for the world and for Margaret McGillivray, so she did something to inject beauty and justice into the world [...]

Many of us in the horn community have known Dave Weiner for years. As the owner of Brass Arts Unlimited, he's been a regular at IHS events since 1999. In [...]

With an absolute commitment to what he describes as the magic created by handcrafting, in combination with modern technology, Jacob Medlin has progressed from unknown to near-iconic status as a [...]

Max Hess (1878-1975) is pretty much a forgotten figure in American horn playing, which is understandable as his playing career was approximately a century ago. His claim to fame is [...]

I have long been fascinated with how horn writing was transformed with the introduction of the valve horn, and how that transformation intersects with changes in compositional style in the [...]

This article considers improvisation and the use of the horn in popular music, which goes beyond its standardized and limiting repertoire. It is part of ongoing research, adapted from a [...]

Gender stereotyping regarding playing orchestral instruments affects students every day. Coming across a program biased against women led me to investigate the issue. Here are the results of my data [...]

Many of us know Michelle Stebleton as a beloved colleague, mentor, and professor at Florida State University. She has wowed us through the years with captivating performances of new music [...]

Edith Borroff (1925-2019) was a prolific musicologist. Her work challenged the canon and emphasized the inclusion and validity of music by women and championed inclusivity regardless of race, sex, creed, [...]

Introduction This story began on a sunny, cold morning in Madrid, when I visited the library of the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid, RCSMM, where I have the [...]

'It felt like fate,' says Dan Vidican of the way his nascent business, Lukas Horns, began to take off in 2014 after IHS 46 in London. 'It started as almost [...]

To Enjoy Playing the Horn: 18 Concert Etudes for Solo Horn by Celso Jose Rodrigues Benedito is analyzed, including an interview with the composer. The authors hope to inspire others [...]

Multiphonics, also known as vocalizations or horn chords, is the process of producing multiple sounding pitches while playing a monophonic instrument. Typically, producing a multiphonic pitch requires playing one note [...]

This article is the third in a three-part series. Parts 1 and 2 were published in the May and October 2021 issues of The Horn Call. Our most detailed insight [...]

Episode in Video Series: Our City, Your Orchestra: Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy; The Philadelphia Orchestra; May, 31, 2023; Jeffrey Lang, horn; Nitzan Haroz, trombone; Carol Jantsch, tuba. youtu.be/sENPS4vuZOs?si=a1rd4cnekxGB89AJ This video, [...]

This interview is the second in a three-part series. Part 1 is published in the February 2021 issue of The Horn Call. Unless otherwise indicated, all photos are from the [...]

Ib Lanzky-Otto was known for his masterful technique, musicality, and exemplary tone, displayed during his long tenure with the Stockholm Philharmonic. Ib was born in 1940 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His [...]

The famous musician Dennis Brain (1921-1957) used to play on single horns. He preferred these instruments for their lightness, as opposed to double horns, but single horns have missing notes [...]

At the time of this writing (December 7, 2020), COVID-19 is a serious disease. Globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been over 66 million cases and [...]

The year 2020 presents new challenges to the world, especially in music teaching. Students and teachers have had to quickly adapt to the new reality of online classes, but playing [...]

Jerry Folsom, in a professional career spanning 56 years, is one those e hornists who has done everything, and has done it well. He began playing the horn professionally at [...]

Chris Leuba, 90, former music faculty at the University of Washington and Western Washington University, passed away peacefully on December 31, 2019. He had lately been a three-year resident of [...]

Recent research, amongst which those of John Humphries (2) and Emily Adell Britton, (3) show a new interest in the history of the horn in France. For most of us, [...]

In Memory of Myron Bloom by John Cerminaro I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I [...]

This article describes the chronological, geographical, and cultural path in regards to the introduction and musical relationship of the horn in Colombia via symphonic orchestras and wind bands in the [...]

Two skills are vital for every college student --managing time and the ability to write--as the director of bands at my school once told the wind symphony. In my experience, [...]

Introduction Ars Antiqua of Bloomington, Indiana, founded April 1978, (1) was one of the world's largest dealers in second-hand records, principally LPs. David Canfield, the proprietor, issued several different lists. [...]

The 51st International Horn Symposium 'Moving Horns' will be hosted from 1 to 6 July 2019 at the Royal Conservatory of the School of the Arts Ghent, Belgium. There are [...]

President Radegundis Feitosa and Executive Director Julia Burtscher welcomed everyone to the IHS55 General Membership Meeting. President Feitosa called the meeting to order at 8:04 a.m. and asked everyone to [...]

Born in Paris in 1842, Henri Kling endured a difficult childhood. Then, against the odds, he blossomed as a musician in his teens while under the wing of the fine [...]

The following article is the second in a series of articles on ADHD and dyslexia in the private studio. As discussed in part 1, ADHD and dyslexia are two of [...]

The Mills Music Library announces the latest addition to its Special Collections: Douglas Hill, Emeritus Professor of Music--Horn, has donated his archive of materials relating to his career of learning, [...]

To modern audiences, Franz Joseph Haydn is known as the 'Father of the Symphony,' a nickname earned through his significant influence in the development of the symphonic form in the [...]

Composing? Initialize fear! Or ... not? Fun fact: I love new horn and piano music. Finding old pieces I've never heard of, playing friends' new compositions, hearing premieres at conferences--I [...]

Most of our readers will have met Engelbert Schmid. An enthusiastic supporter of the International Horn Society, he can be found at nearly every conference demonstrating his own horns and [...]

This article is part of a series exploring works for horn by underrepresented composers. Dorothy Dushkin (1903-1992) co-founded music schools in Illinois and Vermont. Her Sonata for Horn and Piano [...]

Ferdinand Ries is credited as the composer of the Concerto for Two Horns, WoO. 19 preserved in the Berlin State Library. Ries composed the work in 1811 for two horn [...]

Horn Playing from the Inside Out: A Method for All Brass Students, 3rd Edition by Eli Epstein. eBook: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1550684403, 2021. Gone are the days of searching through YouTube videos of [...]

In As You Like It Shakespeare said, 'The horn, the horn, the lusty horn, is not a thing to laugh to scorn.' No scorn here, and possibly only a little [...]

It seems to be a commonly held belief among the surviving horn players of that era that, prior to Alfred (Alf/Al) Brain's arrival in Los Angeles, studio musicians were thought [...]

Alfred Edwin Brain Jnr (1885-1966)Of Alf's birth we have the following information from the Certified copy for an entry of Birth:Registration District St. George's Hanover Square.Birth: Sub-district of Belgravia, the [...]

Settled amid oak, maple, and catalpa trees, a historic farmhouse rests in the gentle hills of west central Missouri. Built by a railroad lawyer in the late 1800s, it is [...]

I never met Dr. Horace Fitzpatrick in person, only heard about him from an elderly colleague, whose appreciation for the former's temperament was not, so to say, fully sympathetic. Instead, [...]

Introduction I was invited to write a book on Alfred E. Brain Jnr (Alf to all who knew him in the UK and A1 to all friends in the USA) [...]

How auditions first started in North America was described in the February 2015 issue of The Horn Call. What happened in the years following those first auditions was not a [...]

In the February 2010 Horn Call, I explored numerous occasions on which a composer quoted an alphorn motif as an evocation of an Alpine landscape. Here, I investigate some reasons [...]