Welcome to Flute Friday! Summer is upon us. I always liked to use my summer months in college to daydream about my next recital program. I listened to CDs (or watched YouTube videos later in grad school), checked out music from our school library to add to my lazy summer practice session queue, purchased music…

Welcome to a very (very) belated Flute Friday (posting on Tuesday). Last week I took a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to London, England. This breathtaking city is home to numerous cultural artifacts and a wealth of history buried within spectacular museums and centuries old castle walls. As I walked through Hampton Court I was…

Welcome to another Flute Friday! Earlier this week I began practicing the Chaminade Concertino, a piece that has been collecting dust in my music collection for several years now. It is always surprising to me whenever I practice music I have not touched in a long time how performance struggles that existed before seem to…

Welcome to Flute Friday! Last weekend I sight read a number of piccolo parts in one of the local groups I play with after having been on a piccolo hiatus since January. I often think that the most difficult thing about playing the piccolo is mustering the courage to belt out your parts no matter…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday! I have started a new series on my Twitter page called Dr. G’s Daily Flute Tips. Please check it out @RTGeier and subscribe to receive my daily inspirational flute advice. Today’s flute blog will not be as deep or informative as some of my previous blogs. Sometimes it is…