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Watching the video I was really intrigued by the amount of Caruso (or Caruso-inspired) exercises he used.Ĭarmine Caruso was a saxophone player who had an uncanny ability to see through problems and inefficiencies in brass player’s technique, and developed a whole series of unique exercises to help them.

This was recorded in Berlin (thus, the Alex 103 he’s playing), and seems to come from his time in the Berlin Phil. Shortly after listening to these episodes, I stumbled across a video of David Cooper going through his warm-up routine. No one “accidentally” wins a job like this without months (or years) of hard, focused work. David’s dive into what it actually took for him to make it to the finals (in the 2016 audition) and win the job (in 2019) is a look at what it really means to prepare for a major audition at a high level. This shows just how high the bar was set for advancement past the prelims (to say nothing of actually winning the job). This was the 2015 audition (I believe), which a couple of years after David won his principal position in Dallas (and the National Symphony). The first time he didn’t make it out of the preliminary round.

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The fact that he has had major professional success on all manner of instruments (Rauch, Conn 8D, Alexander 103 (for Berlin), Lewis (for Chicago)) and in all sorts of different orchestral playing styles (he discusses aspects of articulation in Berlin that I have to imagine are very different from Chicago) really speaks to his work on his fundamental playing mechanics.ĭeliberate Practice: David auditioned for the Chicago Symphony 3 times.
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By that I mean that he seems to be able to pick up a very different style of horn and work out (over time) how to get the most out of that particular instrument. You should listen to the interview yourself (you can use your favorite podcast app or listen online here), but there were a few things that really struck me as unexpected and very interesting.Įquipment: I don’t know David at all personally, but in listening to him play and discuss his process, it seems that he has a very flexible technique. The host of Pathways, Adam Wolf, recently did a two-part interview with David Cooper where they talked about a lot of things, especially relating to David’s time playing in some of the world’s top orchestra’s and the preparation he required to win those jobs. I’ve mentioned the Pathways podcast before back when I talked about Dan Vidican and Lukas horns for the second time.

Listening to him talk about his playing and parts of his practice routine, though, it’s no wonder he’s had as much success as he has. If you’re a horn player, you’ve almost certainly heard of David Cooper.įrom some of his incredible videos of solo repertoire (I love this recording of Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro), to his tenure as the principal horn of the Dallas Symphony from 2013-2019, to his winning auditions for principal spots in some of the top orchestras (National Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony), he has been a topic of conversation (and probably some jealousy) in horn circles the past few years! The residual effects have yet to be seen, due to some organizing a boycott of buying and selling in Second Life due to Linden Lab's response of CopyBot, as well as some items being effectively leaked to freebie form.In Horn tagged horn equipment / horn playing / horn practice / horn teaching / horn technique / warmup by Colin Dorman (updated 643 days ago)
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In addition, LibSL had experienced a complete restructuring of command, with several people moving to only programmer status, as well as moving of the source code to a site which allows tigher control of distribution. Also, it has disbanded a member who was seen to be discussing the more nefarious uses of the bot. In response to the leak of CopyBot, LibSL has now restricted access to its developer code. Others criticized Linden Lab for their support of LibSL. LibSL had received severe criticism from residents for the lack of ethics some of the developers had, as well as lack of control they had over their source code. In reaction to the leak of a potentially devastating tool, several shops closed doors in protest. On November 14, 2006, CopyBot was leaked to the public without LibSL's approval.

It did not have the ability to copy the contents of objects, including any scripts that may have been used. Under its more famous features, it had the ability to copy the prims it sees on someone's avatar, or an individual free-standing object. CopyBot is a project by Libsecondlife in an effort to provide a tool for the end user to back up and download/upload one's own creations.
