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@administrator said in Chet on Commitee?:

@Kehaulani said in Chet on Commitee?:

@administrator said in Chet on Commitee?:

I can only handle Chet once in a while. His music depresses me.

That criteria sure eliminates a lot of art.

Regarding his treatment of others, an addict is a star in his own drama and most others are just bit players. Typical, manulative behaviour.

It's an old delimma, seperating the creation from the creator. Some make peace with it, others can't reconcile it. To me, the art exists seperate and I enjoy it as such. YMMV.

Yes, yes it does. But, remember, I am not saying the art is bad, only that I have to be prepared to enjoy it.

You know, when it goes to that argument, I also feel strongly about religious music. Bach wrote some wonderful sacred music, so did Palestrina and many others. Both men were (at least, claimed to be) devout Christians, of different sects of course, but still Christians. There is something to sacred music when performed by believers.

@Kehaulani said in Chet on Commitee?:

@administrator said in Chet on Commitee?:

I can only handle Chet once in a while. His music depresses me.

That criteria sure eliminates a lot of art.

Regarding his treatment of others, an addict is a star in his own drama and most others are just bit players. Typical, manulative behaviour.

It's an old delimma, seperating the creation from the creator. Some make peace with it, others can't reconcile it. To me, the art exists seperate and I enjoy it as such. YMMV.

Yes, yes it does. But, remember, I am not saying the art is bad, only that I have to be prepared to enjoy it.

My trumpet teacher post-college was a student of James Stamp. He wrote his dissertation on vibrato. Fortunately, it lies in a library about 30 minutes away from me. I think I will check it out and read it and post my thoughts here.

Congratulations are in order! Esteban Batallan (sorry if it's misspelled) has won the coveted Adolph Herseth chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The fact of the matter is, that my teacher in high school was a product of Voisin, Herseth and the Boston (pre-1970s) school of playing. So, that sound was ingrained into my head as a teenager.

I will still listen to older BSO, NYP and CSO recordings and remember why I love the sound of those so much. Sound and accuracy are plentiful today, but the style, oh the style...it's missing today. Well, not entirely. Chris Martin has an exceptional way of playing, too.

When I was pursuing a career in orchestral music, I once had the privilege of playing some excerpts for Tom Hooten and Barbara Butler. One issue they addressed in my playing was too much vibrato. I think I even rebutted with, "Well, Roger Voisin used lots of vibrato." However, Hooten put it clearly by saying something to the effect of: "Well, if you want a job in 2014, you will need to temper your vibrato."

You have the content I would be missing.

Just bought a DVD on "pro" Walleye fishing. Found it for $1 at the local thrift shop.

If any of you wants it, I'll ship it to you for $5.

I can only handle Chet once in a while. His music depresses me.

I'm supportive of this. This is a labor of love for me. I now break even (thanks guys!!!), but I don't think I can ever leave my day job to run a forum :).

Let me know if I can be of help. In fact, we could talk about merging our forums if you have any interest in that.

People always tried to convince me to play something else. One band director told me I had the chops for baritone. Anyway, I stuck with trumpet and never regretted choosing some other instrument. Heaven forbid I chose the clarinet.

I found my greatest enjoyment on the instrument playing great orchestral works, like Mahler 3, Shostakovich 10 and especially Dvorak 7.

It's supposed to be synergistic. This is what American Brass Quintet taught me when they came to my school. That was back in the Ray Mase days. Nobody is the "leader," that is why the two trumpeters switch parts.

@Newell-Post said in Chet on Commitee?:

Chet played a whole bunch of different horns over the years. He kept pawning them to buy heroin.

I sold a piccolo trumpet once to buy a bicycle. Same thing.

@Pinstriper said in Anyone like fishing? (when taking a break from Trumpet, that is...):

There's a beauty.

Fascinating!

There is a bike trail near me, and along that bike trail, there is a sign. Somebody stuck a sticker to that sign that reads, "Being a good parent is 2% trying and 98% putting down your phone."

@Kehaulani said in Practicing with drones:

I used to be active on Sax on the Web, and several of the participants used drones regularly for intonation work.

I'm actually fairly impressed. I didn't know there were such humble saxophonists!

I did a 75 mile bike ride, starting at 4 am. No joke.

Anything fresh meat sounds like good cookin' for the day!