Category: Composition
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New, authentic horizons
I recently rolled off being president of the Historic Brass Society. This was a wonderful, demanding position that I essentially did for three years. Two years officially as president and one year before that as vice president. This was also a time when I was finalizing my portfolio for promotion and tenure as an applied…
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Third day of recording
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…
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A presentation at the ITG virtual conference
Yesterday, I had the honor to present a new composition of mine at the International Trumpet Guild Conference. Because of the pandemic, the ITG conference is virtual and hosted on the “accelevents” platform. Everything was pre-submitted and scheduled for airing at 9:30am EDT (7:30 for me in Mountain Time). It was broadcast on time, with…
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Shift to summer with stacking
This is the time of year I shift from my normal academic trumpet routine–whatever that might be–to a new routine for summer. For the summer break we get in academia and many playing jobs. I realize with what irony I say this while there is snow on the ground in Colorado, where I live (it’s…
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Remembering “Night Club”
Over the last two days, I have reminisced about the first two movements of my solo for trumpet and orchestra that I composed and performed in 2014, titled Night Passages. I shared a recording two days ago of the first movement “Night Fall.” Yesterday, I shared a recording of the second movement, “Night Walk.” Today,…
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Remembering “Night Walk”
In yesterday’s post, I reminisced about being invited to compose and perform a solo piece with Ulysses James’ Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. I shared the piano reduction of the first movement in that post–a slow flugelhorn piece that evokes the coming of night–“Night Fall.” I forgot to mention that these recordings are available on the Ars…