Trumpet Board Remote Performance

SSmith1226

@bigdub
Thanks for your kind comments!

SSmith1226

My latest remote performance was with my niece who plays flute. It tells the story of an egotistical nightclub owner and dancer, Raoul, who is world famous for his dance, the”Bolero”. His Parisian Nightclub reopens after the end of World War I, with the club packed with an enthusiastic audience who are excited with anticipation to once again see the Bolero performed. His regular dance partner was drunk an was unable to perform. On top of that his band ate a bad batch of escargot and all were deathly ill. As fate would have it, a former dance partner, and romantic interest, Helen, who was now a member of high society, was in the audience with her husband, and musicians, Elana and Steve, were available by Zoom. The evening was saved, and just like in the case of the Titanic, the band played on.

tjcombo

@ssmith1226 Epic! I also gave you the first "like" on YouTube

SSmith1226

@tjcombo
Thanks!

BigDub

@ssmith1226

LOVED IT. What a production! I know how much must have gone into that, and I appreciate the effort! Enjoyed every bit of it.

SSmith1226

@bigdub
Thanks!

SSmith1226

The two person band version of Bolero, posted above, a month ago, was in preparation for a larger project I put together for the “New Horizons Band of Cape Cod”, which I am a member of. It served as a feasibility study as well as a source of individual instrumental click tracks for the below linked project. The New Horizons Band project used the same band arrangement. It was open to any band member, as well as local high school and middle school students by invitation of the Band Director. The end result was complicated and had a lot of moving parts. The lead up story was modified. The video is 11 minutes long and continues well beyond where you see “The End” on the screen to give a more conventional “encore” performance. It is best viewed on a tablet or computer screen and listened to with decent speakers, headphones, or earbuds. The individual parts were recorded on cell phones.

J. Jericho

Good job, Steve! The amount of work it took shows in the finished product. I imagine playing the piccolo trumpet and the digideroo each require a slightly different technique.

SSmith1226

@j-jericho said in Trumpet Board Remote Performance:

I imagine playing the piccolo trumpet and the digideroo each require a slightly different technique.

You are absolutely spot on! I tried to use my standard Bach 7C for both, but every time I inserted it in the Didgeridoo, it fell out the other end along with some termites. Maybe if I had a Mt. Vernon 7C it might have worked better. Perhaps tjcombo, or one of other Australian members could chime in and set me straight.