Tag: Classical Music
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4 year-olds, Instrument Drives, & Double Lipped Embouchure
If you don’t know what double lip embouchure is, here you go. When I first heard about double lip from Tom Ridenour in Dallas, I thought he was insane (what can I say? I was 19 and didn’t know anything). But years later I was sitting across the dinner table from Ricardo Morales, sharing a…
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Life after injury
For a long time I avoided serious playing for the same reason I avoid speaking Spanish now. I used to be fairly fluent. I read Cien años de soledad. After a summer in interior Mexico words rolled right off my tongue. It was a source of pride. Now when I speak, it’s as if I have…