Category Archives: Orchestration

Improvisation in Slow Motion

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Micah Everett

I have been arranging solo and chamber music for low brass instruments for almost my entire teaching career. As is true of just about everything I do as a teacher, my reasons for doing this have been mostly practical. The … Continue reading →

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There Are Technical Challenges…and Then There Are Processing Challenges

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Micah Everett

My son, who will turn eleven in a few days, has been playing violin for four years. While his sight reading ability remains well behind his overall technique, over the past year or so he has begun working through what … Continue reading →

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Only One Trombone in the Pit? Try the Bass Trombone!

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Micah Everett

For some reason I can remember as a high school student looking at the liner notes to an original cast recording of Les Misérables and being rather taken aback by the small size of the orchestra and especially the fact … Continue reading →

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“From the Vault:” A Paper on Beethoven’s Use of Trombones in the Fifth Symphony

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Micah Everett

This week’s post is a paper that I wrote twelve years ago for a seminar on Beethoven I took during doctoral school. As a graduate student my practice when taking musicology courses was to whenever possible choose research topics that … Continue reading →

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