I couldn't agree more, Janis. She comes across as a wonderful artist, teacher and most important, a wonderful person. Thank you Sarah for making this informative, heart-warming video available. PS: I don't even play the horn! That will be for my next life, I hope.
I'm sorry I missed the live hangout. I had the pleasure of meeting "JFL Barbie" in January 2013 at the Las Vegas Symposium. Her master classes were a delight. And like her that year, to borrow her words, I too had a significant birthday that ended in zero. Thank you Julie for your inspiration and thank you Sarah for hosting these! :)
I never personally met Barbara Jostlein, but her brother Thomas Jostlein gave me some amazing lessons back in 2009 or so before he left for Illinois. So lucky and privileged to be taught by some of the very best throughout my career and have helped me to become a better teacher, taking the best philosophies of every style and bestowing that upon my students.
Dear Sarah, until I watched the first Horn Hangout, a few months ago, to me, the horn was just "part of the orchestra", occationally accompaning hunting ceremonys. It was a strange instrument, wich couldn'd be bowed, moreover, beeing denied, by their curious fate, even the tiniest string, It's "Players" resorted to sing in a strange way into it's hollow belly... But now I found out, that the horn has a heart, and, that it resides in Berlin, where magicly drawn in, by it's joyfull liveliness, horns from all over the world, come share their music and their secrets! It has been an immense pleasure to watch Your Horn Hangouts! But for now several months, I noticed, with sadness, that there hasn't appeared a new program, wich leads to my first question: Is this due to seasonal commitments? If, (hopfully so!) when do You intend to make the next hangout? Following the principle of hope, a question for coming hangouts: To my delight You and Your guests often take interest into questions about teaching music. I am, for long passages of my learningprocess a self taught learner, and, time and again I find it difficult, to adopt my learning habits and "muscle memory" to structures and patterns of "normal tuition". I watched with interest the hangout with Fergus McWilliams, and his "Anti horn learning book" is on my buying list, but my hope is, that there are people, who have taken a closer look into the special learning conditions of self taught learners, especially those, who partly learn on their own, and than at some point, start to take lessons. Central to my question, (and ...my case...:-)) is a big "diversity" of skill levels in terms of the different aspects of instrumentplay. So, I may be good at finding notes by listening, but are an abyssmal bad sheet reader. I have a habit to internalise scales, phrases or melodys by improvising, with a strong need to make it comfortable on the instrument, this also due to, job related, sensible joints. As a result, despite best intentions, I can't bring myself to follow "the curriculum". "The normal" way to go, would, of cause, be, to get rid of "bad habbits", and that's it. But I have a feeling, that there could be a way, to bring the things one has learned by one self, and the experiences, that went with it, to better fruition. So Id' like to suggest, to invite someone, who delved deeper into the conditions of self taught learners. And, who came up with suggestions to ***improve their learning. ***no silver bullets expected;-) Best regards Thomas Tramm
Hi Sarah. I watched the video hangouts with Julie Landsman. Julie has many experiences. I liked the teaching philosophies of Julie. Forgive me. I do not understand English very fast but it is possible absorb a lot of learning. The Portuguese/Brazil language is very difficult but I was born in Brazil. (Lol). I'm your fan and admirer Sarah. Success in DCH. BRZ/São Paulo State. ;)
Ms Landsman says that when she started playing as a young teen she was good at it. I believe she has said she found it easy. Many do not find it easy. Should those who are not good at it struggle or should they try another instrument or something else altogether? What if she started with another instrument? Would she have found it as easy? Was she just lucky or would have perhaps been good at whatever instrument she started with?
What an amazing, inspiring forthright woman -- the music world is better for having people like her in it. :-)
I couldn't agree more, Janis. She comes across as a wonderful artist, teacher and most important, a wonderful person. Thank you Sarah for making this informative, heart-warming video available. PS: I don't even play the horn! That will be for my next life, I hope.
I met Julie Landsman recently when she came to Portland Oregon to play Mahler 5 with the Oregon Symphony. She was rad!!!
I'm sorry I missed the live hangout. I had the pleasure of meeting "JFL Barbie" in January 2013 at the Las Vegas Symposium. Her master classes were a delight. And like her that year, to borrow her words, I too had a significant birthday that ended in zero. Thank you Julie for your inspiration and thank you Sarah for hosting these! :)
Look forward to the Caruso for Horn!
I never personally met Barbara Jostlein, but her brother Thomas Jostlein gave me some amazing lessons back in 2009 or so before he left for Illinois. So lucky and privileged to be taught by some of the very best throughout my career and have helped me to become a better teacher, taking the best philosophies of every style and bestowing that upon my students.
Dear Sarah,
until I watched the first Horn Hangout, a few months ago, to me, the horn was just "part of the orchestra", occationally accompaning hunting ceremonys.
It was a strange instrument, wich couldn'd be bowed, moreover, beeing denied, by their curious fate, even the tiniest string, It's "Players" resorted to sing in a strange way into it's hollow belly...
But now I found out, that the horn has a heart, and, that it resides in Berlin, where magicly drawn in, by it's joyfull liveliness, horns from all over the world, come share their music and their secrets! It has been an immense pleasure to watch Your Horn Hangouts!
But for now several months, I noticed, with sadness, that there hasn't appeared a new program, wich leads to my first question: Is this due to seasonal commitments? If, (hopfully so!) when do You intend to make the next hangout?
Following the principle of hope, a question for coming hangouts: To my delight You and Your guests often take interest into questions about teaching music.
I am, for long passages of my learningprocess a self taught learner, and, time and again I find it difficult, to adopt my learning habits and "muscle memory" to structures and patterns of "normal tuition".
I watched with interest the hangout with Fergus McWilliams, and his "Anti horn learning book" is on my buying list, but my hope is, that there are people, who have taken a closer look into the special learning conditions of self taught learners, especially those, who partly learn on their own, and than at some point, start to take lessons.
Central to my question, (and ...my case...:-)) is a big "diversity" of skill levels in terms of the different aspects of instrumentplay. So, I may be good at finding notes by listening, but are an abyssmal bad sheet reader. I have a habit to internalise scales, phrases or melodys by improvising, with a strong need to make it comfortable on the instrument, this also due to, job related, sensible joints. As a result, despite best intentions, I can't bring myself to follow "the curriculum".
"The normal" way to go, would, of cause, be, to get rid of "bad habbits", and that's it. But I have a feeling, that there could be a way, to bring the things one has learned by one self, and the experiences, that went with it, to better fruition.
So Id' like to suggest, to invite someone, who delved deeper into the conditions of self taught learners. And, who came up with suggestions to ***improve their learning.
***no silver bullets expected;-)
Best regards Thomas Tramm
Hi Sarah. I watched the video hangouts with Julie Landsman. Julie has many experiences. I liked the teaching philosophies of Julie. Forgive me. I do not understand English very fast but it is possible absorb a lot of learning. The Portuguese/Brazil language is very difficult but I was born in Brazil. (Lol). I'm your fan and admirer Sarah. Success in DCH. BRZ/São Paulo State. ;)
Not to be dramatic but I would literally die for Julie Landsman
you should see a therapist immediately unless you've already unalived yourself
Enchanting: )
Ms Landsman says that when she started playing as a young teen she was good at it. I believe she has said she found it easy. Many do not find it easy. Should those who are not good at it struggle or should they try another instrument or something else altogether? What if she started with another instrument? Would she have found it as easy? Was she just lucky or would have perhaps been good at whatever instrument she started with?
Her student story sounds a lot like mine. Was not a good student, although I'm not killing it on the scene yet really either. haha