Articles

You may have read some of my pedagogical articles in:

• "The Clarinet" (U.S.)
• "Canadian Winds/Vents Canadiens" (Canada)
• "The Instrumentalist" (U.S.)
• "Clarinet and Saxophone" (U.K.),
• "Australian Clarinet and Saxophone" (Australia)
• "Le Musicien" (Quebec, Canada)
• "NACWPI Journal" (U.S.)
• "Flute Talk" (U.S.)
• "Winds" (U.K.)
• "Bandmasters Review" (Texas)
• "The International Music Catalog" (U.S.)
• Rico International website

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Read: “I Want to Play Klezmer, So Where is the Music? ”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, Summer 2006 (U.K.)

Read: “I Want to Play Klezmer, So What CDs do I Listen To? ”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, Autumn 2006 (U.K.)

Read Will Cicola's (Miami grad) continuation of my klezmer series:
“I Want to Play Klezmer, So How do I Form a Band?”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, Winter 2007 (U.K.)

Read Will Cicola's
“I Want to Play Klezmer, So How Did it All Start?”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, Spring 2008 (U.K.)

Read Will Cicola's
“I Want to Play Klezmer, So What About Ornamentation?”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, Summer 2008 (U.K.)

Read: "Klezmer for Klarinettists"
(Australian Clarinet and Saxophone)

Read: "20 Tips for the Aspiring Tenure-Track Music Professor"—National College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal, Feb. 2009 (pdf)

Read: “20 Tips for the Aspiring Tenure Track Music Professor”—NACWPI Journal , Feb. 2009 (online, faster download)

Read: “Work Ethics and Job Retention—20 Tips On How To Be An Indispensable Employee In Music”—Winds, Winter 2006 (England)

Read: “Step-by-Step Circular Breathing for Wind Players”—Winds, Spring 2007 (England)

Read: “Braving Stage Fright—Using the Right Brain to Combat Performance Anxiety”—Winds, Summer 2007 (England)

Read “Positive Attitude—A Job for Keeps”—Australian Clarinet and Saxophone, March 2007

Read: "Giora Feidman-Clarinet is the Microphone of My Soul"
-Australian Clarinet and Saxophone, Dec. 2003

Read: "The Tarogato: A Forgotten Instrument?"
(The Clarinet-ICA)

Read: “Secret 16: Natural Finger Motion”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, Winter 2006 (England)

Read: “Secret 44: Vibrato”
—Clarinet and Saxophone, September 2004 (England)

Read: “A Clarinet Secret about Rapid Tonguing”
—Australian Clarinet and Saxophone, March 2004

Read: page 2 of: "Clarinettists Get Turned On"
(Britains' Clarinet and Saxophone-CASS)

Read Secrets 1 and 2 from by book Clarinet Secrets:
The Rocket-Speed Tonguing Exercise
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Read: Bilingual article (in English and in French): "Clarinet Secret 13: The Chin Exercise for Intonation-À propos de l’intonation: Secret no. 13: L’exercise du menton"—Canadian Winds-Vents Canadiens, Fall/automne 2005 (Canada)

Read "Express-Speed Reed Balancing" (Secret 40 from book Clarinet Secrets) reprinted in Bandmasters Review (Texas) March 2007 and featured on their website

Read "Secret 13: The Chin Exercise (to improve Intonation)—Rico International Website, 2007

Read Michele Gingras' article about Rico International's History