Trumpet Journey

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  • Recording project: that’s a wrap

    Recording project: that’s a wrap

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    Yesterday was the fourth, and final, recording day with Christian Amonson of Arts Laureate at the helm of the recording booth. We recorded Doug Hedwig’s beautiful three-movement work New Worlds for soprano, trumpet and piano. My CSU colleagues, Tiffany Blake (soprano) and Tim Burns (piano) collaborated on this new piece. In fact, all five works…

  • Third day of recording

    Third day of recording

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    On the third day of recording, there was only one piece on the docket: James David’s Moonwatcher. A colleague, Jim is the composition professor at CSU. He has written many interesting things for trombone and band and many other genres. For instance, here is his Bright Window with Joseph Alessi on trombone: But Moonwatcher is his…

  • Recording, part the deux

    Recording, part the deux

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    Yesterday’s recording session ended with a problem over how to record a computer-accompanied piece by Kevin Olson. This piece has computer cues to advance through the score–the cues help determine what the accompaniment is doing (that, and the trumpet sound). The problem was that my bluetooth pedal was not connecting with my computer, so I…

  • Recording, day 1

    Recording, day 1

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    Yesterday was the first day of recording with Christian Amonson, the owner and founder of Arts Laureate. Christian was a very patient and amazing collaborator on a day where some things were not working great. The piano tuner came late, I was having trouble getting through some passages, and there were major equipment failures (not…

  • Getting ready for next semester

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    I am writing this blog as I wait to meet my new trumpet teaching assistant, John Pirillo, at Doug’s Day Diner in South Fort Collins. He is visiting with his family to explore a little before moving here next month. John went to Florida Southern College and won his audition largely on his wonderful recording…

  • Conferences!

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    Today, I spend a nice amount of time chatting about how the Historic Brass Society’s virtual conference went with members of the HBS Board and with the organizer of the event (Sandy Coffin). We did our entire conference on the Zoom platform. It was a little informal, but comfortable for attendees. Question-and-Answer sessions also felt…