Welcome to boerger.org
There's a lot of work to do here. For now, have a look at:
The Horn Players' FAQ - After over 12 years, I've decided the time has come to retire the net's seminal horn resource. You can read more here.
- where nearly 1000 people from around the world share their love for making music in volunteer concert bands and orchestras!
Leslie Parker Boerger's home page
These resources are maintained here and will be indefinitely.
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX
...where we have the good fortune of playing on several occasions :)
Other sites:
- Ron Boerger's personal page (something I need to migrate here in my copious spare time.)
- Rhythm & Brass - great brass & percussion sextet - had the pleasure of backing them up on a couple of occasions.
- Austin Symphonic Band - concert band we used to be in back during our times in Austin. One of the best community bands in the country, which we miss terribly along with our good friend, conductor Richard Floyd.
- The International Horn Society is the voice of professional and amateur horn players worldwide. Best known for their wonderful yearly conferences and thrice-yearly Journal, they also
provide scholarships, commission music and hold annual composition contests,
provide funds for regional conferences, and provide aid to music teachers. Membership is a bargain at $35/year. I was fortunate enough to be asked to present
at the 1997 annual conference in Rochester, NY, and the 1998 annual
conference in Banff, AB, Canada; from 2000 to 2006, I contributed a column
entitled "The Electronic Hornist" to the Society's journal, The Horn Call.
- Seti@home was the first distributed computing effort to make use of all those wasted cycles to perform
research - in this case, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The effort recently (June 2, 2002) passed the one million CPU year mark. I used to run a lab with a lot of machines which sat around most of the time, so this was
a way to use those resources. While that's no longer the case, I still enjoy
running the software, and you can check out
my current stats here.
- The Sherman Symphony - Leslie and I won auditions for this group in 2003 (she is third horn, I am fourth). The SSO, under the baton of Daniel Dominick, has been making music since 1966 and celebrated its 40th anniversary season in 2005-06. We enjoy the repertoire, and Dan is a great conductor who helps us make some pretty decent music. They even let me play the fourth horn solo in Beethoven's Ninth in 2007.
- So, you want to buy a new horn? - advice for novice french horn buyers
- Occasionally, when my alma mater makes it into the post season football playoffs, I do game commentary for the fine folks at d3football.com. Why they let me do it is another story, since I never took any sort of sportswriting courses in college. Anyway, here's a game preview from 2002 (and the corresponding game story, a game story from November 17, 2001, as well as one and another from 1999. From 2003-2005 I was the South Region correspondent for the site.
Ron Boerger Leslie Boerger
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