Jeff Lang of Philadelphia Orchestra - Success, Accuracy, Chops, Sound, and Virtuosity 📯🚀

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The Holistic Horn - A New Paradigm of Brass Playing & Musical Mastery

Mars Gelfo

15 episodes

3 days ago

Hosted by French horn performer, educator, and entrepreneur Mars Gelfo, The Holistic Horn podcast features incredible personalities from the horn & music world. We aim to provide actionable insights, inspiration, and thought-provoking ideas to help you live your best life as a musician & whole human.

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Jeff Lang of Philadelphia Orchestra - Success, Accuracy, Chops, Sound, and Virtuosity 📯🚀

The Holistic Horn - A New Paradigm of Brass Playing & Musical Mastery

1 hour 18 minutes 38 seconds

2 years ago

Jeff Lang of Philadelphia Orchestra - Success, Accuracy, Chops, Sound, and Virtuosity 📯🚀

This episode is sponsored by High Range Magic, a 3 month bootcamp for horn players. Find out more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOG58cB9AU8

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Holistic Horn, Episode 2- Jeff Lang on Success, Accuracy, Chops, Sound & Virtuosity

Jeffrey Lang (https://www.jeffrey-lang.com/) is Associate Principal Horn in Philadelphia Orchestra, and French horn faculty at Temple, Curtis Institute, and Bard.

Check out his beautiful Brahms Trio Recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-RwOHxk0k

You can listen to his album on Spotify here

https://open.spotify.com/album/2SXQdpFoerw104WtM8MCaX

On this podcast we cover SO MANY TOPICS, here is a short list:

- Post-pandemic insights, the function of music in society

- How to avoid being a jaded professional

- What makes a student successful

- It’s never good to be down on your playing

- “Choke”, the book: why athletes and musicians screw up and how to fix your place of focus to avoid choking

- When jeff DOESN’T feel bad about missing notes, and when he does (great wisdom!)

- You can probably forgive yourself a little more if you’re a horn player

- Two simple secrets to building accuracy on the horn

- How to get around the the paradox that attachment to accuracy leads to less accuracy

- How jeff approaches endurance, high range, recovery

- The difference between working out & warming up

- The number one way you can screw up your chops

- Can ibuprofen be helpful as a prophylactic?

- The player who wins auditions

- Making a good sound

- If Jeff could wave a magic wand in the horn world…

- Postage stamps to murals

- Fixing scarcity mentality in the horn world

- The 3 players that most inspired Jeff, and how he attempted to merge their qualities into his own sound.

- What Jeff would put on a billboard for all horn players

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