Yeah.. at best: just that sweet!

Post #381,052 by Ashton 9/20/13 3:29:41 PM Reply	Yeah.. at best: just that sweet! Never had an opportunity to try one; if you're going for Cs above hi-C though (as some can manage on a B-flat with apparent aplomb) it's not the Same overtones as a piccolo, though (some of whose freqs. are probably for bats! or females, who usually outdo males >20 KHz.)
Post #381,056 by drook 9/20/13 4:03:21 PM 9/20/13 4:22:43 PM Reply	Aaaak! Time sink I went looking for the piece that I was talking about and ended up going down a rabbit hole of Wynton Marsalis (Carnival of Venice? Good God) and Arturo Sandoval. DAMN YOU YOUTUBE! Hey, who's this Maurice André dude? http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=fwFuuaK8WqE [boggle!] [edit] Sandoval, when he comes in at 1:00 http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=YeUJen_57Ro this is me http://i.imgur.com/UmpOi.gif -- Drew Edited by drook Sept. 20, 2013, 04:22:43 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #381,062 by Ashton 9/20/13 5:07:46 PM Reply	Re: Aaaak! Time sink ... indeed-So. Who He? Simplest: One of the Greats, died early last year :-/ (Heard him Live in SF way-back.) Longer: http://en.wikipedia....iki/Maurice_Andre Agree with a commenter: while the (improvised intro==poetic license/cadenza) was funny-while-Difficult, the accompaniment was schmaltzy and very-un-Arban (who Wrote The Book, literally): Have his 1+" thick Conservatory Method, written ~ time of the valved-trumpet's possibilities just emerging.. (This got dropped on my desk at ~age 11 by Bandmaster, with some wry comment [My Version] Here, kid: learn Casta Diva by Friday a week and ... At any rate: Arban is the Götterdammerung for any brassist; few ever get all-the-way through the etudes, practices--least of all the young/impressionable (who could gain the most, etc.) Pity. [nor did !] Mastery of the hard-stuff there: defines virtuoso probably forever. André played it (mostly..) As Written, as anyone trained in a French Conservatory Would! Note the sweeter, mellower tone of the cornet + André. And, as do most proper players--he eschewed any/some heroic high-G at the end/it just doesn't fit, y'know? Now for something completely dif.. ... http://www.youtube.c...feature=endscreen Music.. can make even Murica-13 palatable--no matter WHAT?! is next..
Post #381,364 by Ashton 9/28/13 5:00:58 AM 9/28/13 3:50:45 PM Reply	Sergei -vs- Hakan: Arban's Norma Variations http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=yVTEyPZJzRc Arggghhh... YouTube is mesmerizing, probably for all instrumentalists. This a particularly haunting composition from the Arban Conservatory Method, the Bjagavad Gita.. for some of us. (There are other YTube clips of his 'Studies' too--all melodic, finished pieces, yet which also 'teach': a Genius.) Two soloists comparo (I'm biased: Sergei is the Shizzit Panjandrum, with cohorts but.. few near-peers, ever.) Encore: a Fantasy-piece by Schumann, orig. for clarinet (!) here on Flugelhorn + piano, (which horn he can bring well into the trumpet register. With aplomb--not pabulum.) Wish it could have been mic'd closer sans hall reverb. http://www.youtube.c...feature=endscreen But for the sublime.. his flugel rendition of Variations on a Rococo Theme ... "gloriously like a cello.." http://www.youtube.c...feature=endscreen 30 Ed: add Edited by Ashton Sept. 28, 2013, 03:50:45 PM EDT Expand All History

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