News and information about Music, Audio Recording, and other assorted topics.
Ira Taxin: on his Fanfare for Brass Quintet
Ira Taxin, composer and chair of the composition department at Juilliard Pre-College visited my brass quintet coaching today at Juilliard. The quintet was preparing for a performance of his Fanfare for Brass Quintet.
Brass at Juilliard Pre-College Video
This video gives a quick overview of the brass program at Juilliard Pre-College. This is a Saturday program in New York City, at Juilliard. It is a great opportunity to play and learn alongside a fantastic group of student musicians.
Die Walkure, Act. III “The Ride”
Juilliard Pre-College Low Brass Class notes from Sat, Feb 18th
Die Walkure, Act. III “The Ride”
This week’s Low Brass Class at Juilliard Pre-College focused on playing the Ride, discussing both audition preparation and performance as the low brass section of an orchestra.
CD Packaging Text Checklist
When you self release a CD, putting together the packaging can be a big job. Especially if it is the first CD you’ve released!
Packaging is important- nicely crafted packaging, with informative and comprehensive text, will go a long way towards presenting your CD project in the best light possible.
Get a head start by collecting all your info, text, photographs, and artwork as early in the process as possible. Start your text document even as you are just planning your recording sessions. It always takes longer than you think. By the time your final master is ready for replication, you want to be all ready to go to print. (If you start from scratch, you can easily spend weeks getting packing together!)
Recording the Manhattan Brass playing Paquito D’Rivera and Wynton Marsalis
Here are some photos of the Manhattan Brass recording Paquito D’Rivera’s “Four Songs For Brass” and Wynton Marsalis’ “Spiritual and Blues.”
The recording sessions took place in April 2009, at the Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village of NYC.
Audition Recording Tips
I recently gave a presentation to the Juilliard PreCollege brass department about recording; covering basics about sound and the equipment used, as well as important things for our students to keep in mind while making audition recordings (“audition tapes”).
Later, I sat down with Rebecca Braun, the Juilliard Pre-College’s Performance Activities Coordinator, and author of the PreCollege Newsletter, to answer some questions for the Newsletter related to making an audition recording. She wanted to share some of the information I had taught the brass class with the whole student body.
Recording Manhattan Ramble with Mike Boschen
I followed Mike around Manhattan for two and a half hot summer days to make this recording. We wanted to record trombone improvisations at a wide variety of NYC locations. Mike would be accompanied only by the sounds of the city, and would improvise while inspired by the sounds of his environment at each location. Many of the spots had significance to Mike. Some of them we included because we just thought they would sound cool. All the spots were outside; some secluded, some crowded, some popular, some unknown, but all very “New York”.
Recording David Sampson’s Breakaway With Ray Mase and Kevin Cobb
Bove Audio Recording Session Notes
Musicians: Ray Mase and Kevin Cobb, trumpets
Music: David Sampson: Breakaway for Two Trumpets and Electronics
This challenging piece for two trumpets is performed along with a recording of a pre-recorded synthesizer. We want a recording where we can remove each part separately, and play along with the other!
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