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...concert experience was garnered in three summers at the Last Chance nightclub in Poughkeepsie, New York, his home town. At the Last Chance, Walsh played one summer alone, once with his own band, and once as a small part of a dixieland band. This band featured Johnny Windhurst, a trumpet player who is considered one of the best Dixieland performers and said to be the only man alive who can play "West End Blues." "I had no business playing with him," Walsh admits. "I was just a honky--but the experience taught...
...renowned Vermeer Quartet will play Mozart's Quartet in D major and Leon Kirchner will conduct the Chamber Players in Hindemith's Kammerkonzert, which will feature guest artists Frank Epstein, percussion, Ralph Jenkins, accordian, and Robert Hazen, trumpet. Tickets $2 in advance or at the door...
Nixon and his top aides, including Secretary of State Rogers and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, wait at the head of a red carpet extending from the White House diplomatic entrance. After a trumpet fanfare, a military band plays the Hymn of the Soviet Union, followed by The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Trumpet (Gerard Schwarz, trumpet, Ursula Oppens, piano, play Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Lucia Dlugozewski's Space Is a Diamond, and William Hellerman's Passages 13-The Fire, Nonesuch; $2.98). All too often avant-garde music looms as a forbidding wilderness of inhospitable sounds. Not this album of contemporary trumpet music performed by versatile Trumpeter Schwarz. The Sonata by Davies, who also composed the opera Taverner, is sequential but melodic. Composer Dlugozewski, who studied with Varese, employs a variety of mutes and experimental techniques without sacrificing emotional content. Composer Hellerman, a Columbia University faculty...
DeDe Pierce's trumpet leads the touring group, which takes its impulsive rhythm from Billie Pierce's constant piano figures and from the steady drumming provided by Cie Frazier on snare, cymbals, bass and woodblock. The music emphasizes collective improvisation, with Willie Humphrey harmonizing the upper voice on the clarinet and Big Jim Robinson filling in on trombone below, with the lowest harmony coming from Allan Jaffe--who runs Preservation Hall and manages the group--on bass horn. The earliest groups has other instruments, like banjo or string bass, and these can be heard on the groups' two most recent...