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What value can we find today in Moyse’s legacy as a player and teacher for today’s flutists and wind players? As it turns out, there is plenty for us today in his legacy as a player, in the myriad accounts of his teaching, and in the many books he published.
One of the composers of our time who has been – within all his extraordinary musical heritage – one of the most important musical representatives who has made a great diffusion of this nationalist current with a very personal style is, without a doubt, the maestro Alejandro Núñez Allauca (Moquegua, 1943) and his contribution to the world of the…
Most of us musicians are highly self-critical. That tends to lead to worry, anxiety, and often pain, because pain and anxiety are inextricably linked. I call it “PainXiety.” And I see it every day with students from all over the world.
English multifaceted composer of the 19th century. Paladina of women’s rights boasts a catalog that embraces multiple compositional genres. She was a significant voice of the 19th century British and European music.
di Onorio Zaralli Excerpt from Onorio Zaralli’s book “Playing with the soul” ©2017 Conoscere è una esigenza dell’uomo. Ignorare è un bisogno dell’uomo. La differenza è chiara: conosco, quando ho esigenza di imparare e di crescere liberamente; ignoro, se ho bisogno di nascondere, se preferisco “conservare” piuttosto che rischiare di perdermi nella libertà. Bene: per quanto riguarda l’universo emotivo,…
It is the beginning of a new school year. Everything starts again. New hopes and new projects. But there is one goal all the teachers share. We want our students to improve, so we work on all the details that make a young musician complete.
por Omar Acosta Quiero compartir con todos una de las rutinas de estudio que utilizo diariamente, tanto para mí como para mis alumnos. Consiste en crear nuestros propios ejercicios de flauta; de esta manera, además de desarrollar la técnica desarrollamos la creatividad, la cual, tal vez, sea el área musical más importante y muchas veces también la más descuidada….
by Nicola Rizzo Iniziamo oggi questo nostro viaggio alla scoperta della storia del flauto jazz, costellata da grandi successi e da un gran numero di flautisti che si sono avvicinati all’arte dell’improvvisazione. Non sono in pochi infatti, i flautisti o i musicisti a fiato, che si sono avvicinati al mondo del flauto jazz già a partire dalla seconda metà…
by Michael Lynn During the 19thC, there were 100s, even 1,000s of popular opera arrangements published for the flute. These operas, and their themes were the most popular “classical music” of the day. As soon as an opera became popular, many pieces derived from the operas were available at the local music shops. This type of flute music was…
by Alan Weiss Many flutists have been finding value in playing and understanding traversos and simple system flutes for 18th and early 19th century compositions. Playing these instruments adds insight to period style and performance practices. The same should be said of 19th and 20th century early Böhm system flutes. Flute playing and flute -making have evolved since the…
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