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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 Paris taxi driver who has just won the Irish Sweepstakes. He bubbles. He bounces. He loves American beer. Above all, he credits his eminence in a rarified field not necessarily to years of scholarship, not to a preternatural kinship with the shades of Telemann and Tartini, but to the four...
...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 as mellifluously intricate as any Rossini coloratura aria...
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 trumpet is 21 in.). At first glance, it looked like a trick cigar lighter. Actually, it is a modern trumpet specially designed for the Baroque repertory. It has four valves -the regular three for melody, plus one valve that when held down changes the horn's pitch from...
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 to the teacher's urging and packed the boy off to Paris to enter the Conservatoire. For over a decade before records began to spread his reputation, Andre took any job he could get: TV commercials, jazz dates, concerts in the Michel Legrand orchestra and endless La Bohemes...