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Bolero Julliard

The story of how this was made can be found at:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bolero-juilliard-is-a-lockdown-musical-miracle-this-is-how-it-got-made

How to conduct the National Brass Ensemble:

Today I ran across this podcast from the Washington Post discussing that the Louis Armstrong Museum was open for virtual visits. There are 2,000 hours of tapes that Louis Armstrong made with a home reel to reel recorder, some of which are featured on the podcast ( be prepared for some profanity ) that Armstrong made to chronicle his life. There are also photographs to go along with the tapes at the museum site. The podcast is 30 minutes but only the first 10 minutes concern this topic. The podcast can be found at the following link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/two-thousand-hours-of-louis-armstrong/

The virtual museum exhibit, “That’s My Home” can be found at:

https://virtualexhibits.louisarmstronghouse.org/

Here is “The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance” with two “virtual shows”. They normally play at Bird Land, but now play from home. They are not on YouTube yet, but here are links to both.

https://www.facebook.com/afrolatinjazzalliance/videos/231641464819505/?vh=e&d=n

https://www.facebook.com/afrolatinjazzalliance/videos/256157795776818/?vh=e&d=n

“Trains” by Blue Note Tokyo All Star Jazz Orchestra conducted by Eric Miyashiro

I was able to get it on my iPhone. Dr. Go, , if you send your email address to ssmith1226@aol.com, I will send the pdf file to you. I already have Kehaulani and administrator’s email. I will directly forward them.

@GeorgeB
I also sent this to a friend of mine, another trumpet player, who felt that this was a professional level production. He looked at the credits at the end and saw that girl’s father, Paul Langford, was involved in the production. He should be very proud of his daughter’s performance. The following are some of Paul Langford’s credits as provided to me by my friend.

Paul Langford

www.paullangfordmusic.com
Paul Langford Chicago based singer, arranger, keyboardist, producer and conductor, Paul Langford has a career that spans over 25 years. His work includes arranging for and performing with groups such as The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicagoland Pops, the Pensacola and LaCrosse Symphony Orchestras, and Walt Disney World.
Contact
Please use the following form to contact Paul: Your Name...
Studio
Paul owns and operates Paul Langford Studios, a state-of...
Booking
Chicago based singer, arranger, keyboardist, producer and...
Music
Featured Track. More Samples. Acappella Arrangements....
About Paul
Paul also appears as part of the singing duo, Penning and...

And here’s another one. It is quite uplifting. It came today in an Email from New Horizons Music. It is performed by a very talented young girl.

“Just Me And My Euphonium”

@GeorgeB
Here is a simpler production. It is Rod Stewart and his daughter Ruby putting on 20 minute informal Easter Day concert from their home in Florida.

Thanks Ivan. Nice book.
I previously had purchased “My Friend the Trumpet” and “750 Years of Music for Trumpet” in their bound version. Will they come out as an ebooks as well in the future?

Mahler No. 2- Resurrection Sympjony
The conductor, Karel Mark Chichon has put together a Mahler-2 highlights video with 79 home-bound musicians of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and his wife, soprano Elina Garanca. This was all put together with 80 separate cellphone videos.

Two months before the start of “The New Reality” this video was released. They must have been clairvoyant.

@barliman2001
Nothing short of a fantastic performance!!! It is amazing that one virtuoso player put the entire project together. The following is the entire YouTube description translated from Norwegian into English by Google Translate.

Published on Apr 10, 2020
Arrangements and trumpets: Stian Aareskiold

Haydn's Trumpet Concert like you've never heard it before

Norway's own wind ensemble is ready with this year's most well-stocked Easter eggs. Creativity has blossomed, thoughts have cracked in the home office and the idea is as simple as it is brilliant. Take one of the country's most prominent trumpeters, Stian Aareskjold. Give the man free artistic expression, based on Joseph Haydn's famous Trumpet Concerto, free up the boundaries of what it thought was possible to perform, and watch the Trumpet Concert as it has never been played before. This was how Stian Aareskjold met the enormous disappointment when the Norwegian Wind Ensemble had to cancel, and the trumpet player got his most beautiful spring adventure shattered.

A cornucopia of a concert, where the trumpet player gets brilliant in his diversity. Not only is it technically demanding and puts every musician to the test - it is also a show that explodes in pure joy. This time we are not content with just one trumpet. In order for us to really give the trumpet concert its well-deserved place in the history books, Stian Aareskjold strives to play fourteen trumpets - at the same time. We hear the first concert of the concert, which is also the most technically demanding.
Stian Aareskjold asks the audience to especially notice their favorite party, which is the middle part of the first movement. The most feared party, which trumpeters around the world get the heartbeat playing. The more joyful it becomes when it succeeds, then to the degrees, as it does in this magnificent recording.

Then it was this with the trumpet trumpet then. Stian Aareskjold plays a trumpet, specially made in Switzerland, with nine holes covered by one flap each. Moving from the traditional three-valve trumpet to shaking five fingers and nine flaps requires month-long drills for far into the night. The added dimension the trumpet trumpet adds is undoubtedly the upgraded sound. The flap trumpet is tuned in Ace, but twice the length of the modern Ace trumpet. Richer, more intimate sound, which gives a more personal touch than the traditional trumpet.
And are you a real nerd? Joseph Haydn wrote many trills in the solo voice. Listen especially to these, as they are performed on the trumpet trumpet only with the lips, and not the fingers as on a regular trumpet. A clear proof of more fullness and sound, and that the traditional trumpet fails to play Haydn's music as it was intended to sound.

The Norwegian Wind Ensemble is proud to present Haydn's trumpet concert in a new creative and playful way. Enjoy yourself!

Stian Aareskjold has studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and has been employed in the Norwegian Wind Ensemble since 2004. He is also associated with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, London's well-known Baroque orchestra "The English Concert" and several Norwegian Baroque ensembles.

@Comeback said in The New Reality:

Thanks for posting this, Steve

You’re Welcome!!!
In a somewhat similar vein, Sarah Willis, on her “Horn Hangouts”, had about a dozen players of this caliber, some of whom are on this video, participate in an online one hour group video chat yesterday. Currently it can be found on her Facebook site, and I suspect it will turn up on her YouTube Channel soon. There was not a lot of technical advice or opinion of any earth shattering nature, but what it demonstrated best to me was that these “giants of the field” are just as human as you and I, and although we may place them on pedestals in our admiration of their skills and accomplishments, when they put their guards down, they like to have a good time, just like we do on this site. It also showed that although they are outliers in their skill sets, they also have vulnerabilities in their playing. I won’t get into specifics, so judge for yourself.

This video was just posted on YouTube by Jens Linderman and introduced on Trumpet Herald by him 4 hours ago. It is titled, “A Hope For The Future” and is a tribute to the frontline healthcare workers around the world dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic. It features 32 trumpet stars from around the world. It is outstanding in many ways to say the least!!!

@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

Important announcement from Berkley School of Music