If you have ever had email issues, they should be fixed now. I switched to a different email service provider.

Wonder if they will start making "tree-felling drones" so lumberjacks will now be manning a computer instead of a chainsaw?

Please read here: https://trumpetguild.org/news/member-announcements/1832-2020-itg-annual-conference

Let's keep it calm here. Half the world's on lockdown, I don't want to place my forum under it either!

Oh my... I guess it has been! I still remember the demise of TrumpetMaster As of today, we have ~252 members. It sure would be great to double that within the next year!

@Dr-GO said in Sean Jones:

I believe Sean and Wynton are at odds though.

I didn't ask him anything about Wynton, but we talked about Phil Smith and Chris Botti. He had some interesting things to say. He said that Phil's sound is the ideal sound he tries to get his students to mimic.

Coincidentally, I also met Phil Smith that same day. He told me that playing under the baton of Georg Solti was the best "graduate program" anybody could have. Also, when I mentioned I was somewhat surprised that Chris Martin left the CSO, he said, "I'm not." I have no idea what that means.

Interesting article. I met him about a month and a half ago.

I have to be honest, the "it's a small world" mentality of the music industry really put me off toward the end of my time in Music School. When I was looking at making a career out of it, I saw that all I had to do was offend the wrong person and my career would be over. I chose, instead, to be a software engineer. Given that there are probably 100M+ computer programmers in the world, I would never have to deal with that problem.

It looks bomb proof.

@Kehaulani said in ITG Conference Update:

I can understand the financial precariousness of cancelling this, but it has to be kept in mind that this is not only a conference with, perhaps limited enough of an attendance to justify its still going on, but it should be kept in mind that they have to get there. That means, for many, the use of cramped public transportation and airlines, and that puts the conference in a totally different perspective.

Remember, the conference is at the end of May. This could all blow over before then.