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Looking at France's Maurice Andre, 41, one might guess that he possesses the puff but hardly the poetry to be the reigning prince of Baroque trumpet music. Standing 5 ft. 7 in., weighing in at 220 Ibs., shaggy of mane, void of visible intellectuality, he looks like a...
New York's Carnegie Hall, Andre mined pure gold in three trumpet display pieces accompanied by the very able Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra, with which he has been touring the U.S. He imbued Albinoni's Trumpet Concerto in B-flat with a bright, pointy dance of notes that was...
Telemann's Sonata in D had a touchingly tender singing legato line. Tartini's Trumpet Concerto in D built to a concluding D above double C that had the audience cheering Andre as though he were Sutherland.
None of the music was especially profound. No matter. This was a festive occasion-Andre's Carnegie Hall solo debut and his first New York appearance since his recent rise to prominence via records. On this occasion, Andre played a silver-plated trumpet only 13 in. long (the standard...
Into the Pits. This silver beauty bears little resemblance to Andre's first cornet, a gift from his father, who played in the Ales band. Though Andre pere sent his son into the pits at age 14, he kept him at his trumpet lessons. Four years later, he bowed...