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JohnStacy - Tony Honk
@February33Jazz
Brass session musician, jazz fusion french horn player, composer, arranger. WTAMU '16/'20. DMA student, Texas Tech University. Lubbock Symphony Orchestra He/him
Mar 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Orchestration tip:
Not everything needs to be epic.

The trend right now is for orchestral music to be "epic", like all the time. What I mean by this is loud, heavy, intense textures making use of *huge* orchestras. Film music does a lot of this, video games too. 1/6 But an issue I hear a lot of is that the music flatlines after a relatively short time. It's epic...then epic...then more epic, etc. It's not really that exciting to listen to on its own for more than a few minutes. Even more, there's this war to out-epic other orchestrators. 2/6
Mar 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Starting this fall, because of starting my DMA, I will be strictly limiting the amount of non-horn brass I play.
Since I'm going to school to study horn, I'm going to spend my time almost exclusively on the instrument I'm studying. That said, I am somewhat hesitant - Most of my income is from performing and recording. Horn makes up a minority of that. Choosing to focus on horn is cutting off a majority of my income, which is a risky move. But I'm not the horn player I want to be. As long as I'm spreading myself this thin, I can't be.