Word: trumpeteers
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...date, and a very young man full of appealing foibles. In this role Thomas Weisbuch is properly brisk and explosive, but even from Row D his words are often hard to understand; worse, he lacks both the charm of boyish buoyancy that should make Hotspur irresistible, and the trumpet-tongued grandeur requisite to his mounting "esperance...
...Fair Lady raises a topper, The Music Man sounds a trumpet, and West Side Story swings a switchblade in three memorable musical salutes...
...Playing high loud notes for more than a few seconds on the trumpet may cause dizziness or blackout...
...Wagner is the composer with least consideration for the feelings of the trumpet player...
...orchestra worth its salt, say the authors, protects the first trumpet by hiring an assistant "to take over in prolonged difficult passages." But for the budget-ridden orchestra they have another, possibly facetious, suggestion: "It might be possible to dispense with the assistant if the trumpeter wore a pilot's pressure suit, which could be surreptitiously inflated by a switch on the conductor's desk...