Press Releases - IHS Online

Details: Published: 21 January 2015

The IHS Online Music Sales has released a horn quartet arrangement by Lewis Songer of "The Star Spangled Banner," and is inviting submissions of horn-centric arrangements of other national anthems. If you know of or have created a horn ensemble arrangement of a country's national anthem, please consider submitting it to the IHS Online Music Sales. To do so, please send a PDF of the score and parts, along with a recording, if possible, to OMS Editor Daren Robbins at library@hornsociety.org.

Details: Published: 07 December 2014

The International Horn Society has some exciting new features coming in the near future! We are hoping to begin a new e-newsletter, which will provide additional educational content and announce upcoming events and activities. It will be free to anyone who signs up, IHS member or not. Each issue will include valuable articles and links to content for all, as well as special links to members-only content. Click here to opt-in for the newsletter. You will not receive the newsletter unless you sign-up.

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Details: Published: 29 October 2014

from Daren Robbins, creator of hornexcerpts.org:

I am thrilled to announce that, starting today, hornexcerpts.org has a new home on the website of the International Horn Society. In the eleven years since its launch hornexcerpts.org has been an important resource in the study of orchestral horn excerpts and one of the most popular horn-related websites on the internet. Although hornexcerpts.org now resides on the IHS website it can be accessed with the same address. Simply type “hornexcerpts.org” into your web browser and you will be taken to the new and improved site. The IHS is the perfect home for this website. It has the mission and the resources, and its staff has the technological know-how to keep hornexcerpts.org a relevant and beneficial learning tool for for many generations of horn students to come.

Details: Published: 18 October 2014

Nominations for election to the Advisory Council three-year term of office (beginning after the 2015 International Symposium and ending after the 2018 Symposium) must be received by Executive Secretary Heidi Vogel before December 1, 2014. Nominees must be members of the IHS and willing to accept the responsibilities of the position. Nominations must include the nominee’s name, address, telephone number, email address, written consent, and a biographical sketch of not more than 150 words. Nominations by fax and email are acceptable; consent must originate from the nominee.

Terms of the following AC members expire in August 2015: Lisa Bontrager, Ken Pope, and Leighton Jones are completing their second terms and are therefore ineligible for re-election this year. Bruno Schneider is completing his first term in office and is eligible for nomination.

Send nominations to:

Heidi Vogel, IHS Executive Secretary
PO Box 630158
Lanai City, HI 96763-0158
USA

telephone/fax: 808-565-7273; e-mail: exec-secretary@hornsociety.org.

Details: Published: 13 October 2014

Beginning with the October 2014 edition, The Horn Call, the journal of the International Horn Society, is now available for download in pdf form from the IHS website. Logged in, current members of the IHS should choose Home—>Downloads from the main menu. to access their copy.

Details: Published: 09 October 2014

Schubert’s Adagio from the Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821, in a transcription by Steve Lewis, has been added to the IHS Online Music Sales. In the words of the arranger: "After first hearing the Adagio from Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata I knew I must arrange it for horn and piano. The breathtaking lyricism of Schubert's melodies and the Horn are a perfect match. While many of us wish Schubert had left us a Horn sonata maybe this arrangement can help fill the void."