1/7/2024 0 Comments Dark and light taming flathornIn my sessions last week I found myself talking about St Hubert - mainly because I knew that St Hubert’s day is around the corner - Tuesday 3rd of November, 2020. I notice working with my students how their lessons and their practice between lessons can be a welcome distraction from what feels, especially so right now, like never ending sombre news. Music offers us solace plus learning an instrument also require a lot of concentration and attention. I love that it gives me a taste of travelling - one moment I’m catching up with someone in Tokyo, then off to Barcelona we go! It’s like a condensed version of touring! Some of them are professional players using this strange time to develop new skills, others are amateurs in the truest sense of the word. I’m working with young teenagers through to octogenarians. ![]() I have students from all around the world - from Sydney in the east through to Los Angeles in the west. Fortunately I already had been doing a bit of on-line historic horn teaching so I didn’t feel as if I had to embrace something totally foreign. One of the things that has kept heart and soul together (and, honestly, a roof above my head) has been teaching. Back in early March, returning from the first leg of what was going to be a huge year of 2020 Beethoven concerts with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, we knew something was coming but we had little comprehension of just how much the world was about to be turned upside down. Over the last eight months life has been very very strange.
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