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Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia
From Hussite suspicion of musicians to tower signals over Bohemian towns, horns and trumpets shaped civic life, danger warnings and ritual memory.
Por Vaclav Hoza
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Parte 3
Music in an American Frontier Communal Society
Aurora Colony
Aurora’s bands, chamber groups and restored instruments show how communal faith, German heritage and American public life met in sound, from parlors to parades.
Por Deborah M. Olsen
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Editorial
Virtuosity is framed less as method than perception, opposing formula-driven teaching and pointing to attentive listening as the ground for technical clarity and artistic control
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The Audition System
Why American Musicians Emigrate?
Behind orchestral vacancies in North America, travel costs, subjective selection and hidden hiring practices help explain a growing flow of musicians abroad.
Por David P. Searfoss
The Minute counter!
Por Thomas Stevens
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Editorial
Between tradition and innovation: brass players must move beyond routine and embrace new musical directions to remain relevant in the music of tomorrow.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Brass in British culture - is it extinct?
Por David Gordon Shute, John Wallace
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Listening
Musical listening begins where judgment ends, as Jeffrey Agrell questions habits of criticism, recordings and expectation that shape every performance.
Por Jeffrey Agrell
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Working with the Posaunenchor
From Württemberg youth groups to mass brass gatherings in Ulm, a community tradition links faith, education and amateur brass playing across generations.
Por Max Sommerhalder
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Salvation Army in Japan
Western-style brass music entered a once-isolated Japan through unexpected channels, with Salvation Army bands becoming part of a remarkable cultural transformation.
Por Taku Satoh
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Tuba Editorial
Roger Bobo reflects on orchestral auditions, examining imbalance between candidates and positions and questioning training, selection criteria and prospects for aspiring tubists.
Por Roger Bobo
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Editorial
Beyond technique and instruction, musical growth depends on trusted relationships, where friendship becomes both a measure of progress and a safeguard against isolation.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
Parte 1
Classical music: Why bother?
Por Joshua Fineberg
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Editorial
At the dawn of the 1980s, Brass Bulletin challenges institutional habits, avant-garde rigidity and brass pedagies through a direct appeal to younger musicians.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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300 Years of the Horn in Bohemia
An unsigned portrait from the Dresden court links the rise of Bohemian horn playing to the ceremonial world of Baroque hunting culture.
Por Kurt Janetzky
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Wynton Marsalis
Interview
At 26, Wynton Marsalis confronts jazz education, popular culture and artistic integrity with convictions as uncompromising as his approach to the trumpet.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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What's your proper job?
A social portrait of the British brass player
Four British brass players confront a profession transformed by orchestras, freelance work, social prejudice and the shrinking certainties of musical life.
Por Thomas Aitken
Parte 2
Sampling? A hard rality !
Por Thomas Stevens
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Editorial
Bloomington’s brass congress raises an awkward question: can international exchange flourish when one country’s institutions, calendar and priorities set the terms?
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
As costs rose and ambitions grew, an editorial from 1983 captures the fragile balance between sustaining an international brass journal and preserving its vision.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Editorial
From cultural codes to personal sincerity, Jean-Pierre Mathez questions how musicians recognise truth across styles, traditions and musical languages.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez