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New 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..
New 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

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Expand Edited by Ashton Sept. 28, 2013, 03:50:45 PM EDT
     'Widmung' Nakariakov: brass-as-violin, cello - (Ashton) - (5)
         I once heard piccolo trumpet, you'd have sworn was a flute -NT - (drook) - (4)
             Yeah.. at best: just that sweet! - (Ashton) - (3)
                 Aaaak! Time sink - (drook) - (2)
                     Re: Aaaak! Time sink ... indeed-So. - (Ashton) - (1)
                         Sergei -vs- Hakan: Arban's Norma Variations - (Ashton)

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