Category: HBS
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Conferences!
Today, I spend a nice amount of time chatting about how the Historic Brass Society’s virtual conference went with members of the HBS Board and with the organizer of the event (Sandy Coffin). We did our entire conference on the Zoom platform. It was a little informal, but comfortable for attendees. Question-and-Answer sessions also felt…
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HBS conference recap
Earlier this week, the Historic Brass Conference presented a virtual conference that was organized by Sandy Coffin, an American trumpeter and copyeditor, getting her doctorate in Scotland. The theme was “Pond Life: Crosscurrents over the Atlantic.” Over three days there were 21 presentations, a keynote address, a memorial session, an award ceremony, and a live…
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More NTC Historic Division
On March 19, 2005, I hosted the second baroque trumpet division of the National Trumpet Competition. Here are some photos and a write-up that I submitted to the Historic Brass Society Newsletter about what happened: Crispian Steele-Perkins was the Honorary Chairman. Mr. Steele-Perkins presented a recital on many different historic trumpets, and he conducted a…
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Chairing the NTC Historic Division
Around 2003 and 2004, I became much more oriented to participating in academia while I was in the U.S. Navy Band. In 2003, I was invited as a finalist for a teaching position at the University of North Texas, a position which I didn’t win, but the process gave me a lot of great insight…
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Historic Brass Society–annual meeting
I just got through my first global annual membership meeting of the Historic Brass Society–as vice president and president-elect. We held two virtual meetings at different times to make it more available to our world-wide membership. From our website: The Historic Brass Society is an international music organization concerned with the entire range of early brass…