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@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Kehaulani
You aren’t kidding about the Berkley School of Music Tuition!!!

Estimated Budget 2018/2019
Massachusetts Resident and Non-Resident Total Budget $65,144
In-State Tuition $42,880
Other Fees $1,260
Room and Board $18,360
On-Campus Other Budget $2,170
Books and Supplies $474

I'm curious what "room and board" constitutes. If you divide that number by 12 (months in a year) you get $1530. That's more than my mortgage payment, and I have 1/2 acre lot. Are there no 1/2 room dives with 12 roommates in Boston for $600/month?

These costs are absurd. Most students will go into debt...and how will they pay it off?

I feel like this thread has gone off the rails...do I need to lock it again?

@barliman2001 said in Happy Birthday Herbert von Karajan:

Composer? Conductor!

Whoops!

The great German conductor was born today, 112 years ago.

@Voltrane said in Where Are You From?:

Well, as I am from Paris, tons of tunes...Among them, may be this little one, full of hope (“I love Paris in may”) because “April in Paris”is unfortunately not what we are used to...

Je ne pas parle Francais but I do like Maurice Andre oui

I had to find a recent photograph but this looks good enough.

I had to delete the last post. I'm going to lock the thread for a day and hopefully everything can calm down, then I will unlock it.

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.

As of now, the International Trumpet Guild Conference has not been cancelled. Read here:

https://trumpetguild.org/news/member-announcements/1825-itg-statement-on-conference

Boy, I love those engraved sterling silver bells!

@GeorgeB said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

My 1952 Selmer Paris-- still my favorite

Such a timeless trumpet. I love my Radial.