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BrassBulletin

International Magazine for Brass Players

Encounters

248 articles

No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Théo Mertens

Portrait

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 76 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Fire in the music

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Repertoire Encounters
No. 81 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Georges Delerue (1925-1992)

One of the most famous French composers

By Jean Douay

Encounters Repertoire
The Horn is my instrument Free
No. 4 • 1973 Digitized

The Horn is my instrument

Personal reflection on the horn as an instrument, exploring artistic identity, sound ideals and the player’s relationship to the instrument.

By Georges Barboteu

Encounters
Doc Severinsen Free
No. 55 • 1986 Digitized

Doc Severinsen

Talent, will and glory

Trumpet virtuoso and nightly television star, Doc Severinsen combined immense popularity with concerts, big bands and iron discipline.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Jazz Solo playing
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

An Interview with Christian Lindberg

By J. Richard Raum

Encounters
Arnold Jacobs Member
No. 34 • 1981 Digitized

Part 2

Arnold Jacobs

Interview

From Curtis to Chicago, a tuba player's path crosses Reiner, Koussevitzky and Ormandy, while teaching evolves toward breathing, thought and musical function.

By Roger Bobo

Encounters Professional life Auditions Orchestral playing Breathing
No. 113 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Bo Nilsson

Cicerone of the brasses

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 77 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Lex Van Weren, The trumpet saved my life in Auschwitz

Special Holland

By Ton Ouwehand

Report Encounters
No. 114 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Francis Orval, A heart for the horn

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Wynton Marsalis Member
No. 59 • 1987 Digitized

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.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Society Jazz Ideas
No. 95 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

Brass Bulletin 1971-1996, the fruit of the passion

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Stanko Arnold

Yugoslavia's Trumpet Virtuoso

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Meir Rimon Member
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

Meir Rimon

Portrait and conversation

Orchestral discipline, solo freedom and an endless appetite for learning shaped Meir Rimon’s horn playing across Israeli, European and American traditions.

By Jeffrey Agrell

Encounters Professional life Orchestral playing Solo playing
No. 81 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Johann Doms will be seventy!

By Joachim Elser

Encounters
Ernest Hall, OBE (1890-1984) Free
No. 49 • 1985 Digitized

Ernest Hall, OBE (1890-1984)

A principal trumpet, influential teacher and formidable musician remembered through the voices of pupils who experienced Ernest Hall’s uncompromising standards.

By Thomas Aitken

Encounters
No. 111 • 2000 Awaiting digitization

Simon Styles - gentleman and tuba player

By Jeremy Mathez

Encounters
No. 90 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Emiko Ikeda & Chisato Abe

Portraits

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 61 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

U.S.A. Profile

Bob Malone

By Thomas Stevens

Equipment Encounters
No. 121 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

Anatoly Skobelev - Russian Grand Master of the trombone

By Victor Batashev

Encounters
No. 72 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Peter Damm

For the love of music

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 63 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

The low-down... with Marc Steckar

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 80 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Hans Gansch

The courage of candor

By Helmut Brenner, Alexandra Müller-Guttenbrunn

Encounters
No. 69 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Quintette Magnifica

New world conquest

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

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