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..