Pope Instrument Repair

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP FOR HORN PLAYERS

Wednesday to Sunday, July 15-19, 2009
Heath, Franklin County, Massachusetts

with

John Clark, Jeffrey Agrell and Evan Mazunik
special guest artist: David Amram

Saturday, May 23 – Don’t miss this invaluable day-long workshop for high school brass players at New England Conservatory. For a single fee of only $50, participants get a full day of clinics • classes • side-by-side reading sessions with NEC’s Boston Symphony Orchestra faculty and other top brass players. No audition required! Click HERE for the link

Graduate Studies in
HORN
at the University of Massachusetts

Assistantships available:
Graduate teaching assistantships are available that provide a stipend for teaching and performance duties assigned by the department. Hornists are assigned to play in the Graduate Brass Quintet or the Graduate Woodwind Quintet as 5 hours of the 10-hour assistantship. During the 2009-2010 academic year the stipend is $7,258 for ten hours of work per week for the full 38-week academic year. The stipend carries with it tuition remission and partial waivers of curriculum and health fees. The total award for 2009-2010 is worth $18,590 (for out-of-state students). Students are responsible for one-time only graduate entering fee of $360 and $700 in student senate and service fees each year. Applicants wishing to be considered for a teaching assistantship should indicate that on the Graduate School Admission Application.
For more information, visit our website at www.umass.edu/horn and www.umass.edu/music and contact:

Prof. Laura Klock
Professor of Horn
Department of Music and Dance
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413 545-6052 (school) or 413 549-6784 (home)
laklock@music.umass.edu

NEW BAND STARTING – Auditions coming up:
My name is Elizabeth. For my Girl Scout Gold Award project I am starting a concert band for high school musicians who play at about the senior district level. There are many levels of orchestras around, but no place for serious band students, except for MYWE, and that is only for the most outstanding performers. My band will help fill this void. The band will start in September.
Auditions are June 5th and 6th, spots are filling so students should sign up soon!
The Conductor is Dr. David Neves. Further info at www.TuttiWindEnsemble.com.
Please help me by telling your students and any other music teachers you know about this fantastic opportunity. Feel free to forward this email and the attached flyer.
If you have any questions please contact me. You can reach me at manager@tuttiwindensemble.com or at 781-449-5652.

Thank you very much for your help. Teacher encouragement seems to be the best way to help students become interested in participating in additional musical groups.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Doyle

ps- a year long Senior District level band at only $250 – what a deal!

In the past few weeks I’ve had some pretty spectacular horns come through my shop for sale – and they sold before they ever got listed on the website?
How did this happen??? I keep a list of names of people wanting specific instruments, and when I get such a horn in to sell, I contact them.
So, if you didn’t see the Hill, Hatch, Lewis, and the Geyer which was in PERFECT condition – that is why!
If you have a horn you want me to ‘watch for’ for you – send me an email!
Ken

I’ll be posting a LOT of new and used horns over the next few days – and a few ‘phone’ specials (cases and horns)
Also, I’m looking forward to Macomb – if you have any requests for items for me to bring let me know NOW so I can order them!
See you there.