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Favorite blog posts, March 2023

March 31, 2023 by Bret Pimentel
  • International Clarinet Association (Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr and Jean Raines): Reprints from the Early Years: Music for Clarinet by Women
  • HeaneyMusings – Joshua Heaney (saxophone): More than a Rough Draft: Debussy’s Rapsodie Pour Orchestre et Saxophone
  • The Babel Flute (Lea Pearson): Myth-Conceptions about Breathing
  • Nadina Mackie (bassoon): Talent Drills for Orchestral Excerpts
  • Julie A. Linder (clarinet): Clarinet basics: pinkies
  • The Flute View (Lindsey McChord): Making a Headjoint – A Fusion of Science and Art
  • oboealli (Alli Gessner): Do you know the 3 elements of fast articulation?

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