BTW, that trumpet is something wicked man. . .

I haven't bought any new toys lately. . . . . . just started conducting. . .

 

 

Thanks, 8D. I'm pretty pumped about it! I dented it this past weekend though (3rd valve slide fell out).

Review from this weekends undertakings:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20091110/NEWS/911100403

What are you conducting? What kind of group? V. cool!!!

 

D'oh!

Nice program. I wish the Symphony I was playing in had a good variety like that. . .

I'm conducting The Mikado with the Stanford Savoyards in January. They're small. . . but mighty.

I'm working vocalists. . . bizzare.

 

That's a serious frakkin' project, 8D!!! You go, man! Good luck.

One thing about SPM (my group) is that we do very varied and interesting work. In all honesty, I'm no connoisseur of classical music, but I *love* playing in this group because we do all kinds of neato shtuff.

In my younger days, I did every musical under the sun in community theater productions throughout the area. That was great fun, and the social life was terrific. Then a bit later I took up brass quintet and that was perhaps the most intense musical period of my life. Orchestra has been a pasttime through the years, being my only musical thing in the last 10 or so.

Haven't done quintet since the early '90s, but I have a gig coming up in a few weeks for a tree lighting ceremony with the mayor in Beantown.

 

Yeah - I got roped into conducting this group after playing Horn with them for 4 years now.

Good luck with the quintet gig. . . what are you playing?

 

Thanks. All kinds of Christmas-y stuff. Good arrrangements, though. Frakenpohl and others!

 

I have mixed feelings about Frankenpohl - great music, but damn, he makes the Horns work. . .

 

well, yeah, but it's all good.