Category: Military
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A recording should accomplish these two things
When I graduated from the U.S. Navy recruit training command (a.k.a. “boot camp”) at Great Lakes, Illinois, in 1998, the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (John Hagan at the time), gave a speech to the graduates. In the speech, he advised us to take advantage of the educational and financial benefits the Navy…
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Some thoughts on Taps
Today, in the U.S., it is Memorial Day. It is a day in which Americans honor those who have died while serving in the military. A lot of trumpeters play Taps today. It’s a bugle call steeped in tradition. The best place to find out about Taps and its history is the Taps Bugler website,…
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Producing Navy Band DVD on Husa
In 2014, I was asked to help produce, with Michael Schmitz, a U.S. Navy Band educational DVD about Karel Husa’s masterpiece, Music for Prague 1968. This was a huge project that was envisioned by the leader of the Navy Band at the time, Capt. Brian Walden. There were many things to hunt down and do…
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Midwest Presentation on Transcribing
In 2014, the U.S. Navy Band Brass Quartet was invited to the Midwest Clinic in Chicago to make a presentation about transcribing. We all talked about various aspects of the art of transcribing, and we played examples of transcriptions to illustrate our talking points. I prepared a slide show for that presentation–about how to prepare…
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2013 Navy Band West Coast Tour, part 3
This post is really just photos of the end of the most wonderful tour ever–picking up from where yesterday’s post ends–in Monterey, California.
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2013 West Coast Navy Band Tour, part 1
In yesterday’s post, I shared a recording of a solo I did in 2013 on a Navy Band tour of the West Coast. I want to share some other memories of that tour in the next few days’ posts. Among the highlights: a photo of me with RADM (ret) George W. Lotzenhiser, who came back stage…