Michael AllenNov 26, 2019K.I.S.S.It's snowing to beat hell here (thanks for the euphemism, dad) and I'm on a week away from my day gig, chipping away at some BIG...
Michael AllenSep 23, 2018Another possible approachI might have tried to transcribe something as awesome as the first movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony decades ago - I might have even...
Michael AllenJul 28, 2018Get your head out of the scoreConductors who can't lift their head out of the score are a pet peeve. It usually means they don't trust their own understanding of the...
Michael AllenNov 9, 2017Bass DoublingI wrote something yesterday that was confusing even to me when I read it again today. Mea culpa. The offending sentence was: Wright notes...
Michael AllenAug 26, 2017Willow, WillowMany years ago, I was walking past Bill Stanley’s trombone studio at CU Boulder and heard a most remarkable thing. I stuck my head in the...