I really don't remember much music from high school, other than football season stuff. Amazing how fast the fight song came back to me. Fingerings and all;)

Also the Star Spangles Banner.

@administrator this band is great. I love their sound.

@administrator said in Synergy Brass Quintet:

Has anybody heard from these guys lately? I heard them in 2008 and was fairly impressed. All the information I can find online is now over a decade old.

Wiki says "WAS".... ☹ .

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They were, hopefully are still excellent!

One other thing that I remembered happening on Easter Sunday, second service. For the Hallelujah Chorus, they invite anyone who has ever sang it to come up front and join in singing it. Nobody turns around and stares at me when I start to play, usually.
This time there were two little girls who came up with Mom ( I am guessing ), and I was so tickled when they turned around as if they heard the ice cream truck coming down the street, biggest smiles on their faces. They probably couldn’t see me in the back of the crowded platform when they first came up, so when I started in it was a total surprise to them. As I said, the grownups are too proper, and, well, grown up to turn and stare. I bet it was all they could do not to. I'm glad I get to stand behind the bell, rather than in front of it........just saying.

That's cool. Definitely not the life for me. I thrive on stability and routine. Sound like a pro musician? I didn't think so!

But, all props to her for making it work.

That's interesting, because I never played in, or supervised, a quintet that had external musical directors. That's both academic and professional.

@Jolter

have not PMed in this site yet -- but i need to get the score first anyway -- local arranger. Glad to hear of your interest. Please advise of any guidance on PMs

Funny! Much appreciated. Well played, too.

@administrator
Excellent! I like how they place a heavy responsibility on beginning and ending notes and phrases and a healthy respect for dynamics. Good listening and great to learn from.

Hi Kehaulani,
The 10,000 hour rule just doesn't wash (It's been debunked so many times, I can't count all of them. Just Google it.). It took me at best 30 hours of concentrated effort to train my dog to understand and do commands ( however, for those who own a dog, training never stops). What I think is slipping under the radar, is that people with skills like Elmer are often driven to play, almost like a compulsion. People like that do not see the trumpet and what it takes to be good as an enormous amount of hard, concentrated work. They are like a child compelled to play with a new toy and if they aren't playing the trumpet, they're thinking about trumpet. They just can't leave the trumpet alone. There are people on this site that know exactly what I mean and for those that don't, that's okay. Trumpet, for a few, is a drug. Most people do not want to face the dragon of practicing and only practice when they have to. However, for some people, practicing the horn is a drug and their dragon is figuring out how some piece or piece of a song goes.

And the notes are still coming out of his horn after he takes it from his face.☺ ☺ ☺

Regards, Stuart.

After I finished the surgery, she laughed so hard, that I left her in stitches!

Thanks, Barliman2001. Here's what I found in Wikipedia about the original hymn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Es_ist_ein_Ros_entsprungen

@Bertie said in Christmas Services:

My son was born a week ago, so you know... not much sleep anyway ☺

Hope you were not the one chosen to do the breast feeding! 😋

Congratulations!

@grune

Also Discog site
https://www.discogs.com/Al-Hirt-Honey-In-The-Horn/release/1336377