Posts made by SSmith1226

I’m sure that many of you saw the 2019 multiple Academy Award Film, La La Land. There was a Bar Jazz Club House Band depicted with a heavy set featured trumpet player, played by Bijon Watson. He is an outstanding lead, commercial, studio, pit orchestra, and jazz trumpet player. He has been called to fill in at the Hollywood Bowl, when the parts are too demanding range wise for the regular players.
He was more than able and overqualified to play what ever music the house band played in the context of the movie. Obviously his portrayal was extremely realistic. The irony of it all is that as he was playing the trumpet seamlessly on screen, a friend of his, Wayne Bergeron was playing In the studio what you heard on the Movie’s sound track.
By the way, he was a featured as a soloist at the 2017 ITG. Below is a performance video featuring Bijon and a second video of some scenes from the movie.

Excellent video and tutorial.

@Kehaulani
@J-Jericho said in Health Benefits of Classical Music:

@SSmith1226 said in Health Benefits of Classical Music:

@Kehaulani
See if this doesn’t put you to sleep.
Act 1 Scene 3: The Lullaby

You’re both right! It is sort of scary. Since this study was done in Italy, they were probably listening to Puccini rather than Berg.

@Kehaulani
See if this doesn’t put you to sleep.
Act 1 Scene 3: The Lullaby

In the July 1, 2020 issue of the “The Journal of Cardiac Failure” a study was published that concludes, “Listening to recorded classical music is a non-invasive method to improve quality of life for a person living with heart failure.
In the study Beneficial Effects of Listening to Classical Music in Patients With Heart Failure: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Francesco Burrai, RN, PhD, and a team of researchers at Sassari University Hospital in Sassari, Italy evaluated the effects of listening to classical music (in addition to standard medical treatment) on quality of life, sleep quality, anxiety, depression, and cognitive performance. The trial, conducted at 4 Italian cardiology institutions, enrolled 159 outpatients with documented chronic HF; patients in the experimental group listened to recorded classical music from a playlist of 80 different tracks for at least 30 minutes per day for 3 months while resting at home, whereas the control group received usual standard of care.

During the observation period, patients in the music group showed greater improvements in quality of life, sleep, reduction of both anxiety and depression levels, and cognitive performance.”

“Our conclusions are that listening to classical music is a feasible, noninvasive and inexpensive intervention, on top of a good standard medical regimen, able to improve the quality of life in patients with heart failure in the home-care setting," said Dr. Burrai.

If interested, the full paper can be found at:

https://www.onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-9164(19)31444-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email#.Xw7aVV46CzM.twitter

@Dr-GO

To carry this a step further, but by no means the final say, a preliminary study came to my email box today of a similar nature with the investigators coming from the University of Colorado and the University of Maryland. The specific information I received can be found at:

https://www.nfhs.org/media/4029952/preliminary-testing-report-7-13-20.pdf

The trumpet aerosol dispersion data was was measured at the bell with no cover over the bell and no mask, playing with a cover over the bell, playing with a slitted mask and cover over the bell. Also measurements were taken 1 meter from the bell.

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Other wind instruments as well as vocal performances were evaluated as well. Outdoor performance as well as indoor performance venues were also evaluated.

Recommendations are not surprising.

Yesterday, an obituary appeared in the The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Ryan Anthony: A local trumpet prodigy who went on to play big stages and raise funds for cancer research

The link to it is:
ttps://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/obituaries/story/2020-07-11/ryan-anthony-a-local-trumpet-prodigy-who-went-on-to-play-big-stages-and-raise-funds-for-cancer-research

@IrishTrumpeter

A nice tribute article to Ennio Morricine in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/movies/ennio-morricone-film-scores.html

There is a very interesting article today in The Guardian about Miles Davis’s 1955 “comeback” from heroin addiction at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival. Below is a link to that article. Below the link is a recording from that performance.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/09/iconic-festival-sets-miles-davis-newport-jazz-festival-1955

@GeorgeB said in Vale Ennio Morricone:
In the Giufreddi series there are a lot of lip burners that are beyond my ability but I managed to play I Promessi Sposi but had to drop an octave on those high Cs near the end because my old chops were tiring. But, man, that was a pretty piece of music, and great playing by Giufreddi, of course.

I have to agree with George’s response to the discussion and memorialization of Ennio Morricone. On the other hand I didn’t want to derail and dilute this tribute to Ennio Morricone with my response to this. I have thus started this new discussion branching out to Andrea Giufreddi. Although Mr. Giufreddi does not know me personally, I am grateful to him because he has helped my playing immensely. I will tell you about my own experience with Mr. Giufreddi’s work. Keep in mind that I am a four year comeback player so this experience will not be applicable or relevant to all on this site.
I fortunately stumbled across Andrea Giufreddi’s work about 9 months ago with the release of his first basic pedagogic play along YouTube release, “Legato # 1”. This was very basic but allowed one to listen and watch how he played each portion of this flexibility exercise, along with a rhythm section track before the listener’s turn to repeat without him, but with the same rhythm track. This automatically met and made it necessary to follow the “rest as much as you play” recommendation of practice. In addition listening to, and trying to imitate his unbelievable “sound”, day in and day out, is another big “plus”. A further added bonus is that you are now playing “music” with an accompanist track as you practice basic exercises. Since the first release in this series nine months ago, he has released fourteen other basic instructional videos following the same formula. The 15 videos currently take me 1:45 to complete.
I generally do these exercises about five days a week and try and practice seven days per week if possible. The following is the order I do them:

Cichowicz Flow Study n. 1
Cichowicz Flow Study n. 2
Legato #1
Legato #2
Legato #3
Flexibility #1
Flexibility #2
Octaves #1
Clarke Technical Studies #2 (Full Version)
Vocalise #1
Arban First Studies n. 11/12
Arban First Studies n. 13/14
Arban First Studies n. 15/16
Arban First Studies n. 17/18
How To Double Tongue

At this point (1 hr 45 min) I will supplement these with some of Andrea Giufreddi’s many Orchestral Excerpts, Play Along selections, Play With Me pieces, or other music that I am working on. Alternatively I will come back later in the day or evening various of these selections or Schlosberg, Irons, Charlier, music that I am working on, etc. As new basic exercises are released, I add them to my routine. This also has the added benefit of painlessly increasing my endurance.

At any rate, since I posted six of Mr. Giufreddi’s play along selections on the “Vale Ennio Morricone” discussion, I wanted to publicly thank Mr. Giufreddi for the help he has given me, as well as the many tens of thousands around the world that follow him and benefit from his instructional and play along videos.

@GeorgeB
Here is another one, Cinema Paradiso.

@neal085

Here is one more that I forgot!

If you want to play along with the outstanding music of Ennio Marricone, here is your chance courtesy of the great Andrea Giufreddi.

@Brian-Moon said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226

What proof do you have that rocks are a certain age?
Evolutionists have been taking their own assumptions as truth and building "evidence" with them for a long time.

The New York Times lies consistently. You can't trust it.

Brian,
The exact answer is above my pay grade. I would assume that the level or rock had material mixed with it that could be carbon dated, or else mixed in with other fossils that could be dated. Also the evidence for these ancient jellyfish was found in Utah. I am not an expert in archeology, paleontology, and geology, so I won’t take it beyond the following, but I can say that it has been a few years since the ocean covered Utah. I was just trying to help, because I was curious as well.

@Brian-Moon said in A little humour:

What is the proof that jellyfish have been around that long?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030211210.htm

Fossil Record Reveals Elusive Jellyfish More Than 500 Million Years Old
Date:
November 2, 2007
Source:
Public Library of Science
Summary:
Using recently discovered 'fossil snapshots' found in rocks more than 500 million years old, researchers have described the oldest definitive jellyfish ever found. The researchers describe four types of cnidarian fossils preserving traits that allow them to be related to modern orders and families of jellyfish. The specimens are about 200 million years older than the oldest previously discovered jellyfish fossils.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/science/07jellyfish.html?referringSource=articleShare

In a second article from the peer reviewed journal, “The New York Times”:
Yet if any taxonomic dynasty is entitled to the originalist mantle, to the designation of genuine emblematic earthling animal, and also to brand the rest of us the alien arrivistes, it is the jellyfish. A diverse group of thousands of species of gooey, saclike invertebrates found throughout the world, the jellyfish are preposterously ancient, dating back 600 million to 700 million years or longer. That’s roughly twice as old as the earliest bony fish and insects, three times the age of the first dinosaurs.

“JERUSALEM (JTA) — A suspected cyberattack disrupted a live virtual gala held by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, making it impossible to view for most of the 13,000 people worldwide who had registered.

The Sunday afternoon attack on the fundraiser, which was trying to help the orchestra overcome losses due to COVID-19, crashed the websites of the orchestra and its gala partner, Medici.TV.”

Here is the full international Gala of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra:

The New Reality for the Boston Symphony Orchestra / Boston Pops Trumpet section.

@Dr-GO said in The New Reality:

I find taking my shoes off guarantees there will be social distancing!

Adding. a “Plant Based Diet” to that will give you at least a 12 foot radius of clearance.

My layoff was 44 years. Life, including school, work, and eventually family got in the way. I started playing again in 2016, when I started slowing down at work. For the first six months I played by ear only. My regular progressive lenses were locked in to about 14-16 inches to focus for work and would not allow me to read music at trumpet length and beyond. After six months I had “music glasses” made and I could once again see the music. The comeback was slow but has been steady.