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This Day in History: 2003-07-10

Alvin Acorn, American traditional jazz trumpeter, died in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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This Day In Trumpet History

1734 Gottfried Reiche, German trumpet player, municipal musician, composer of the Baroque era, J. S. Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig from 1723 to 1734, died in Leipzig, Germany

1734 Gottfried Reiche, German trumpeter, accepted into the string players guild in Leipzig in 1700, became a Stadt-pfeifer and senior Stadt-pfeifer in 1719, first trumpeter to J.S. Band from 1723-34, had portrait commissioned for him by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, composed many "tower fanfares," died of stroke in Leipzig, Germany.

1848 Dieudonné Gérardy, Belgian cornetist, first prize and the enamel medal at the Liège Royal Conservatory, principal cornet in the orchestra of Spa and the Jean-Baptiste Arban orchestra in St. Petersburg, played under Nicolas Ysaye, praised for his articulation, phrasing and velvet tone, professor of cornet and trumpet at the Liège Royal Conservatory, taught Théo Charlier, composed a few pieces for cornet, born in Liège, Belgium.

1912 Anthony Baines, British author and instrument organologist, author of Brass Instruments: Their History and Development, founding member of the Galpin Society, born in London, England.

1947 Larry Weeks, American trumpeter, member of the Philadelphia Orch, associate principal of Toronto Symph Orch (later principal), taught at the Univ of Toronto, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1955 Daniel Keberle, American trumpeter, began career teaching at Northeast Missouri State Univ, taught at California State Univ in Chico, faculty at Whitworth College, published many big band charts, born in Wausau, Wisconsin.

1964 Judy Saxton, American trumpeter, performed with the Millar Brass Ensemble while a student in Chicago, principal of the Hong Kong Phil, teacher at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, principal of the Illinois and South Bend symphonies and Chicago Chamber Orch, taught at Illinois Wesleyan Univ, Northeastern Illinois Univ, prof at Wichita State Univ and principal of the Wichita Symph Orch and Wichita Brass Quintet, faculty at the Univ of North Carolina School of the Arts, born in Vestal, New York

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