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Playing opportunities are opening up as nightclubs begin to open to vaccinated patrons and entertainers!!!

@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.

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 said in Progress in my comeback:

Nice story. I think we'll hear more from her in the future.

Entering the time machine, here is another child prodigy through the years who is now age 22, Lucienne Renaudin Vary.

“French trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary can be called a prodigy, making major concert appearances in French venues throughout her teenage years and releasing her first major-label album at 18. Her training and her debut album on Warner Classics have been notable for their mixture of classical, jazz, and pop repertory.

Vary was born in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, France, on January 28, 1999. Showing talent early on the trumpet, she enrolled at the Conservatory of Le Mans in 2007, taking classical trumpet lessons from Philippe Lafitte and jazz instruction from Santiago Quintans. At the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, she matriculated at first as a classical trumpet student, under Clément Garrec, but in 2017 she added jazz and improvisation to her course of study. Vary's record of strong competition showings began in 2010 with a win at the Selmer Le Parnasse contest, and in November of that year she finished third in the European Competition for Young Trumpet Players, even though the contest was for players 14 through 17, and she was only 11.

Vary made her first festival appearances in 2012 at the Eurochestrie and Annecy festivals. In 2013 she appeared on French television in a tribute to trumpeter Maurice André, and by 2014 she had a busy festival schedule that included appearances in Colmar, Antibes, and Royan, performing at the last-named in a duet with star English trumpeter Alison Balsom. She also gave her first major jazz concert that year, in Le Mans at the city's Nuit de chimères event. Since then, she has divided her time roughly equally between classical and jazz appearances. Vary won a Victoire de la musique classique award in 2016 in the category of Instrumental Soloist Revelation. She made a guest soloist appearance at the Cartagena Music Festival in Colombia in 2017, becoming the festival's youngest-ever soloist and making her debut in the Americas.

The Voice of the Trumpet
In 2013
Vary made her recording debut on an album by French trumpeter Guy Touvron, playing a work by Benedetto Marcello and joining Touvron on two-trumpet concertos by Saverio Mercadanteand G.F. Handel. In 2016 she was signed to the Warner Classics label and issued her solo debut, The Voice of the Trumpet, the following year. The program combined classical works, few of them standards, with jazz treatments of Broadway hits.”

At age 16:

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At age 21:

Just when I thought that I was making progress in my comeback i found this video. Below the video is a link about the featured musician.

https://weartv.com/news/local/this-incredible-young-trumpet-player-will-blow-you-away

@barliman2001
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@bigdub
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@tjcombo
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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.

The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all the background checks, interviews and testing were done, there were three finalists: two men and a woman.
For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill her."
The man said "You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife".
The agent said, "Then you are not the right man for this job. Take your wife and go home".
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes, "I tried, but I can't kill my wife."
The agent said, "You don't have what it takes, so take your wife and go home "
Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard one after another. They heard screaming, crashing, and banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman, wiping sweat from her brow.
"The gun was loaded with blanks" she said...... "I had to kill him with the chair."

@tjcombo
You must be very Devo-ted to this breed.

@grune

The horrors of Gallipoli and its aftermath were vividly portrayed in the composition and outstanding performance. Although the composition is by a contemporary Scottish Composer and Lyricist, Eric Bogle, this the first “protest song”I heard concerning WW I. It’s effectiveness caused me to research why Australians were at war with Turkey.
In 1915, when this military campaign started, “ANZAC” troops were part of the British Empire. One out of six participating Australian and New Zealand Army Corp Troops were killed in Winston Churchill’s losing campaign many thousands of miles from their homes, in Turkey. As a result, the independence of Australia and New Zealand from the British Empire was solidified. Also ANZAC Day was born. On the other side, the Ottoman Empire eventually transitioned to the Independent Republic or Turkey founded by Ataturk and others who were among the victorious Turkish Military Leaders. Ataturk was also known for his role in the Armenian Genocide by the Turks.
It would be interesting to hear what our Australian members think of the song and performance, as well as their perspective on the history.
For additional insight, the following video is helpful, especially starting at 5:30.

I’ll put this under vintage because this trumpet definitely qualifies as vintage. It is an 18,000 year old Conch Shell Trumpet.
“After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.”
If you want to read more about this ancient “Stradivarius” and hear a recording of it being played, click on the following link!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/listen-to-haunting-notes-from-an-18000-year-old-conch-shell-trumpet/

@J. Jericho,
Great performance! Tremendous energy but needs more Trumpets!

I wasn’t sure whether to post this video here or under humor. This is a performance of “The Band of HM Royal Marines”. It is both good non-trumpeting music and humorous. The performance takes place in the Royal Albert Hall, although Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band does not participate.

Bolero as you have never heard it!

@tjcombo

@j-jericho
Excellent Pianist!

All the good knights were leaving for the Crusades.

One knight told his best friend, “My bride is without doubt one of the most beautiful women in the world. It would be a terrible waste if no man could have her. Therefore, as my best and most trusted friend, I am leaving you the key to her chastity belt to use should I not return from the Crusades.”

The company of knights were only a mile or so out of town when they noticed a cloud of dust approaching.

Thinking it might be an important message from the town, the knights halted.
A horseman approached. It was the knight’s best friend. He yelled, “Hey, you gave me the wrong key!”