Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
A very little bit about publishing music
Friends, before entering the field of publishing I didn’t really understand the pricing structure. I thought I wrote a really in-depth,...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Oct 21, 20216 min read
As Berio Would Say: Why??!! ...did I switch to bass
It’s travel season again, and so I finally have some forced downtime to do a little writing here, and so I’m finally getting to something...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Aug 14, 20216 min read
🙀Ilan's list of Dos and Do Not Dos, including 🙊6 TMIs💩!
That's right: I've seen every single one of these first hand, and it wasn't pretty.
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Jun 15, 202110 min read
The Almighty.
"The US is a religious country, and god is flat and green." I didn’t come up with that, sorry mom, but it has more than just some truth,...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
May 10, 20214 min read
Auditioners Got Skillz! On Memes, Courses, and Sushi.
Here’s something I have never done: talk openly about my audition experiences. I haven’t really shared much about this for two reasons. ...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
May 3, 20213 min read
On Musician Health Practitioners, and What’s Missing
I started working on this chart a couple of months ago with the guidance of my buddy Kayleigh Miller of the Musicians Health Collective...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Apr 18, 20211 min read
Video: Conversation with Steve Johnson, Virtuosity Music
A conversation with Steve Johnson, owner of Virtuosity Musical Instruments downtown Boston, MA, about his journey as a musician, business...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Apr 9, 20213 min read
The Irrelevance of Music School?
I don't usually respond to other blogs, especially by anonymous people. But this sensationalist, simplistic blog post, titled The...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Mar 24, 202111 min read
About Teaching Music with Dr. Colleen Conway Pt. 2
Dr. Colleen Conway is Professor Music Education at the University of Michigan, author of several best selling books on Music Education...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Mar 21, 202116 min read
Questions for Noel Freeman, HR Professional
The recent passing of James Levine has brought up again both his awful, ugly past, and our seeming inability as an industry to grapple...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Feb 27, 202112 min read
About Teaching Music with Dr. Colleen Conway Pt. 1
Dr. Colleen Conway is Professor Music Education at the University of Michigan, author of several best selling books on Music Education...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Feb 5, 20213 min read
Some of Sam's Thoughts on Higher Ed
I don't know Sam Burtis personally, and haven't experienced his playing or teaching first hand, but he's always been outspoken and...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Jan 28, 20215 min read
A Smorgasbord of Crazy: How Swastikas and flags of Israel coexist in far-right utopia
The mob takeover of the Capitol exposed again how strange the bedfellows can be on the extreme right. Blue Lives Matter protestors...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Jan 20, 20214 min read
...and CUT!
With the proposal from Ithaca College to remove the Master of Music Performance from their curriculum (https://theithacan.org/news/ic-rel...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Jan 12, 20215 min read
Questions for Emerging Musicians, By Jim Hopson
In January of 2013, I was asked to give a masterclass for the University of British Columbia low brass students on the subject of career...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Jan 2, 20214 min read
The Biggest Loser, or as Berio would say, Why??
l love music, and I genuinely enjoy practicing, but the idea of doing the exact same thing every day...was not appealing to me
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Classically trained, by Jules Shinkle
The following took place during my time in undergrad. It is a cautionary tale. I was fortunate enough to get an internship working with...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Dec 18, 20203 min read
Dr. Know, or Is Ignorance Bliss? Jill, Miles, Pop-Tarts, and Tropes.
What a week for education. It started off with the Wall Street Journal’s bizarre editorial about Jill Biden’s terminal degree...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Dec 13, 20205 min read
In defense of quitting and amateurism
There so much to say about this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380. ...
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Ilan Morgenstern, Bass Trombone
Dec 3, 20204 min read
Questions about ethics
The college years are extremely valuable. That fact is self evident in how much money people are willing to spend on them. Being on the...
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