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some serious trumpet playing

by Charles Noble on April 27, 2009 · 1 comment

Here’s a great video that I found on YouTube of OSO Assistant principal trumpeter David Bamonte and Minnesota Orchestra Principal trumpeter Manny Laureano playing a particularly tough section from Aaron Copland’s great Symphony No. 3.
They’re playing the Portland workshop of master trumpet maker David G. Monette.
Now all we need are some vids of the OSO [...]

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upcoming classical concert thoughts

by Charles Noble on November 13, 2008

This weekend comes Classical 4, which features an interesting program: Too Hot Toccata by Aaron Jay Kernis, Concerto in F by George Gershwin, and Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony.
It’s interesting because each work on the program is a standard form with an individual “take” on the form in the eyes of its composer.
The Too Hot Toccata is [...]

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