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Saturday, May 24 – 11:00am “The Career and Pedagogy of John James Haynie” Gary J. Dobbins, reporter R. Dale Olsen’s lecture on John Haynie’s career was very thorough, even tracing the life of a young boy from approximately five years of age. Growing up and spending several years in To recount the entirety of Dale Olsen’s lecture would be beyond the scope of this report. Furthermore, the Haynie story could never be told as well as Olsen told it. I encourage everyone to look for a 2004 publication of a book by R. Dale Olsen entitled The Haynie Legacy. This informative lecture revealed how a young cornetist would eventually break through the “cornet virtuoso” mold to become a foremost interpreter of music from the French Conservatory School and other major (and not so major) trumpet literature of the twentieth century. At the height of Mr. Haynie’s teaching powers, there would be no work in the catalogue of solo or etude material that would be unknown to him. So revered were his recorded interpretations of the French literature that the publishing house, Alphonse Leduc, would present individual copies of their entire library of trumpet works to Mr. Haynie upon his retirement, and he would donate this material to the UNT Library. Another important component of Olsen’s lecture was to convey how John Haynie would start with a small group now known as the “Haynie Clique” of the 1950s to develop a studio which, after forty years of teaching at one institution, would number over 2000 former students. Included among this stable of former students would be a large number of nationally recognized performers and teachers.
Mr. Haynie is the author of three books on playing the trumpet in addition to several articles. Perhaps of greater importance, however, would be his pioneering efforts in the area of video-fluoroscopic studies. This involves a technique of using moving X-ray images with sound to reveal the secrets of trumpet playing mechanics. Lessons with John Haynie were not always about playing the trumpet. They were often about life and how to live it. They were about problems and how to solve them. What better person to dispense this wisdom than one who has experienced sacrifice, hardship, hard work, happy times, sad times, tough times, and the price of achievement as it relates to success – all of which leads to that never give up spirit to be the best. This is John Haynie. The lecture was given on the occasion of Mr. Haynie’s receiving a special Award of Merit from the International Trumpet Guild, a much-deserved honor. As R. Dale Olsen pointed out, and John Haynie would be the first to agree, it is impossible to think of all of Mr. Haynie’s accomplishments without also considering the endless love and support of his beautiful wife, Marilyn.
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Trumpet Prelude: University of North Texas Alumni Program: “The Career and Pedagogy of John James Haynie has been called one of the most influential trumpet teachers of the 20th Century and has been referred to as “one of the greatest trumpet teachers of all time.” From his childhood in West Texas, Haynie was recognized as one of the most brilliant cornet prodigies of his era. Although originally considered to be one of the successors to figures such as Herbert L. Clarke, Colonel Earl Irons and Leonard Smith in the “cornet virtuoso” school, Haynie expanded his musical horizons and emerged as a foremost interpreter of music from the French Conservatory school, and later of modernists such as Hindemith. As a teacher, John Haynie remained at one school, The University of North Texas, for his entire career. Over a forty-year period, beginning in 1950, Haynie developed North Texas into one of the foremost schools in the world for the study of trumpet. His studio was comprised of over 2,000 excellent trumpet players, many of whom became internationally recognized as performers and teachers. R. Dale Olson was an original member of the “Haynie Clique” of the 1950’s, and is the author of The Haynie Legacy, a book scheduled to be published in 2004. In this lecture, Olson traces the career and pedagogical concepts of his friend and former teacher, John James Haynie. |
Cisco, Texas, young John’s talent on the cornet was first noticed by the loving grandmother who helped raise him. This is the same grandmother who would struggle to purchase John’s first King Master Model Cornet. Another very influential individual in John Haynie’s life was a person who would later become well known in Texas band directing lore, Robert Maddox. The relationship fostered between young John, Cisco band director Maddox, and John’s family, would later lead to a very emotional decision, a decision to release John into the care of the Maddox family and accompany them in a move to Mexia, Texas. This is where greater opportunity awaited Mr. Maddox and where John would begin to realize his potential as a cornetist. 
