tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65043474466924891002024-03-05T09:27:38.607-08:00Notes on MusicRaymond Burkhart PhDDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-87326953988769384342019-12-31T00:06:00.000-08:002019-12-31T00:09:57.467-08:00Remembering Jack Sheldon<br />
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Often, I have admired world-class musicians from afar. Sometimes,
we’ve rubbed elbows a bit, and more rarely, I’ve gotten to know them well. For
me, Jack Sheldon fell in the second category.</div>
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My first experience with Jack Sheldon was hearing him on TV
on the Merv Griffin show. My last experience was hearing him perform at the
2016 conference of the International Trumpet Guild in Anaheim, CA. To do so, he
overcame remarkable physical challenges, and I think a large roomful of excellent
trumpeters knew they were hearing a great and historic performance.</div>
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Along the way, I got to hear him in a few jazz clubs in L.A.,
and for a time, I got to play a few rehearsals with his band down in Hollywood.
Unfortunately, I never got to perform with him, since when those calls came, I
was busy. Certainly, just to be in a rehearsal with him was a dear experience. If
you’re not familiar with his music and career, I recommend taking some time to
devote to that. The Web has a lot of his work to enjoy.</div>
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But I do have a couple Jack Sheldon remembrances you
probably won’t find elsewhere.</div>
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First, my undergrad school, Occidental College, had a '20s-themed
(1920s, for you young pups) party every year called “Da Getaway.” Oxy is in
Eagle Rock, a district of Los Angeles, CA, where at the time the Eagle Rock
High School had a truly dynamite jazz band program under the leadership of John
Rinaldo. Not only did they play great on their own, but some of Los Angeles’
best jazz musicians – players whose names you would know – would sit in with
them. The Eagle Rock High School Jazz Band was engaged to play for live dancing
at this campus-wide party, but in my freshman year, the Oxy concert band had an
on-campus concert on the night of the party, so before I could hear the band, I
decided to dash to my dorm room first to ditch my brown suit. (Brown suit? Why is it when
they told me I needed a dark suit to perform in, they neglected to mention that
<i>brown</i> would be the worst possible
choice?) As I walked by the dorm where the big band was playing, I heard the
most exquisite jazz trumpeting! Who could it possibly be? What high school kid
could play like that!? Thinking they’d be playing until midnight, like my high
school band did a lot, I first ditched the stupid brown suit, then returned to
the dance to listen. But instead, I found the band packing up and learned that
the trumpet soloist had been Jack Sheldon. Missed him (mostly) by THAT much….</div>
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Then, a few years later, my teacher – Bill Bing – invited me
to a special event. About twenty local trumpet players would gather each year
to play Happy Birthday for studio trumpet legend, Mannie Klein, at his home near
Toluca Lake. I went three years, as I recall. We’d convene around 10 a.m. to “surprise”
Mannie by playing for him and his wife in his front yard. I recall going inside
and getting some cake afterward. I don’t recall now who all was there, but I do
recall meeting John Audino, Malcolm McNab, and Walt Johnson for the first time.
And Jack Sheldon led it all. He’d call the key, say “anna one, anna two,” and
we’d all soon learn who forgot to transpose or which note it starts on.</div>
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I always thought that doing this said good things about the
comradery and respect among fellow trumpet players, not only for Mannie – a hero
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<br />Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-33405066562330074622019-11-14T06:32:00.001-08:002019-11-14T06:33:29.491-08:00For Sale: Rare Baroque Natural French Horn with nodal vents by Lowell GreerSoCal people, this is only for sale for the next several days, so if you're interested, make an appoint to come try it right away!<br />
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I'm selling my baroque horn. Crooks and couplers by Lowell Greer. Purchased in 2008, various fire evacuations and other life surprises conspired to keep me from even beginning to learn it.<br />
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Baroque horn corpus (an "ectomy" corpus of uncertain origin; I suspect by Lowell Greer and associates), with 6 nodal vents for G to
D. High and low pitch G master crooks with tuning devices, three couplers, giving F, E, and Eb when used singly, and D and C when used
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Local buyers presumably won't need it shipped. I'll ship to a non-local buyer in the "lower 48" for an additional $50.</div>
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<br />Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-28092840013869211782019-10-04T17:33:00.002-07:002019-10-14T20:28:16.306-07:00For Sale: Bachalone Trumpet in D / D flatI'm offering for sale my "Bachalone" trumpet in D and D-flat. Plays great. Sounds great. Great shape.<br />
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I had it made around 1986. Bob Malone was gaining worldwide fame with his adaptations of C trumpets, by cutting them down to E-flat trumpets (with his famous S-shaped custom leadpipes), that could also be played in D by using an alternate tuning slide. Such an instrument (in Eb/D) was played by Håkan Hardenberger on his well-known first CD (1986).<br />
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My trumpet started as a Bach large-bore C trumpet. My teacher, Rob Roy McGregor (then of the LA Philharmonic Orchestra), recommended I have Bob make mine in the keys of D and D-flat. I had a nice Schilke D/E-flat, so I didn't need another E-flat trumpet, and there are a few orchestra parts that work nicely on a D-flat trumpet, if only you have one, which almost no one does.<br />
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You can see it here in D, with the slightly longer D-flat slide alongside. It also has a "tone-ring" on the third valve. I liked it that way, so the tone ring comes with. The trumpet is not lacquered. Raw brass.<br />
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Bell is 229. Lead pipe is MC2S (Malone C2, S-shape). Serial number in the 221xxx series. It has a Bob Reeves valve alignment.<br />
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Since it was cut down from a C trumpet, it plays much more like a C trumpet than regular D trumpets. Great for playing D trumpet in an orchestra. Switch out the D tuning slide with the D-flat tuning slide, and you have a D-flat trumpet for special occasions.<br />
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I have five D trumpets with valves, and six more without valves. Some people have said this might be more than I need, so I'm selling this one. Actually, I'm also selling a <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2019/06/bach-d-trumpet-for-sale-long-bell-model.html" target="_blank">long-bell Bach D trumpet</a>. The three that will remain will suit me fine.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">$2,900.00, shipped to CONUS.</span><br />
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<br />Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-27885665238020108182019-10-04T15:57:00.001-07:002019-11-11T14:15:27.175-08:00For Sale: Piccolo Trumpet in C "Meister Andreas Bergmann"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">UPDATE: <span style="color: red;">SOLD.</span></b></span><br />
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This piccolo trumpet in C is one of two that I own, and believe it or not, I don't need two piccs in C. Hard to believe, I know. I'm keeping my Yamaha C picc and selling this. It has a gorgeous sound, and interestingly -- unlike other rotary valve piccolo trumpets I've played -- I can easily hold this trumpet steady and still.<br />
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It's marked "Meister Andreas Bergmann" on the bell, which I assume is the maker, but I've never found information on such a maker online. If you find anything, please share.<br />
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It all works beautifully. I don't see any dings or dents. Lacquer finish. There is one odd thing, though. The mouthpiece receiver will receive a US-style mouthpiece, but not much of it. Set up that way, I find the trumpet plays flat. But I have other European-made trumpets that are not designed to use a US-style trumpet mouthpiece shank shape, so this isn't a surprise for me. (And no, cornet mouthpieces don't work, either.) My Yamaha C picc also receives, just barely, a US-shaped trumpet mouthpiece shank, but it also cannot be brought up to pitch. So, I had John Mason -- a local brass specialist -- cut down and reshape the shanks on a couple of trumpet mouthpieces to fit the receiver on the mouthpipe on this instrument (and the Yamaha C pic). I'll include one of those mouthpieces in the sale of this trumpet, if the buyer wants it. It's a Yamaha 14B4, which is what I normally play on piccolo, but with the shank shortened and the taper altered to fit.<br />
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For me and other players, a piccolo trumpet in C is an ideal instrument on which to play JS Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto. For one thing, the top A (on a Bb piccolo trumpet), -- the highest note in Brandenburg 2 -- is a G on the C piccolo, thus an open note on the harmonic series of the instrument, and it just speaks more easily and reliably.<br />
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I just sent a few photos to a "brass camp" friend of mine, causing me to rummage through all my saved HSUBCMW pix, and it occurred to me that I should share them with the world in some manner. So, here you are.<br />
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There are shortcomings, of course. I've lost a lot of the photos I once had. Some shots are just bad shots. Some years, I took no photos. Some people appear more often than others. And so on.<br />
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But there are positives, too. Some of these pix will be of area attractions that not all participants have visited. Some will include people who didn't know I was taking their picture. Many, I hope, will bring back fun memories to those who've been there, and for those who haven't, perhaps you'll be enticed to go some year.<br />
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Comments and questions are welcome, and I have but one request. If anyone took a photo of the 2018 coaches' performance, I'd sure like to have a copy. Pretty sure I don't have one. Thanks.<br />
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My purpose in posting is not to display my activities at Humboldt, but obviously I'll appear in a bunch of the shots. My purpose, since it's so easy to upload digital memories, is just to share with the BCMW family a bunch of pix you might enjoy. So, Enjoy!<br />
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<b>1982</b><br />
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<b>1985</b><br />
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<b>2002</b><br />
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<br />Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-20677953456037636982019-06-05T15:29:00.001-07:002019-11-11T14:14:46.903-08:00For Sale: Bach D Trumpet, Long Bell model<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">UPDATE: <span style="color: red;">SOLD.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bought this long bell Bach D trumpet just as you see it, maybe 25 or 30 years ago. It looks to be the Strad D180L, which I think is no longer made. Bore is .459". 239 bell. Lacquer. Serial number suggests 1981 or 1982 as a manufacture date. It came with the Amado water key and the two heavy bottom valve caps, and maybe someone did some custom work, too, because the tuning slide doesn't go in quite all the way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I love the way it plays. Used it last on Pulcinella Suite, and it was great. But at one time I had 11 trumpets that could play in D, 5 with valves and 6 without, and even I thought that that might have been excessive. I now have a Yamaha/Schilke Eb/D trumpet, so I just don't need this any more. It's one of seven trumpets that I've been meaning to sell for a decade, and when they're gone, I'll still have too many! Check back for more "For Sale" blogs in the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">$1,500.00, shipped to CONUS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact: ray@raymondburkhart.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interested SoCal locals can come test it.</span><br />
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<br />Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-83792365252725334752019-06-05T14:42:00.000-07:002019-10-04T17:21:16.363-07:00For Sale: Bach C Trumpet, ML bore and Malone 'MC2' front end<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bought this trumpet just as you see it about 20 or 25 years ago. Bach C trumpet. Medium large bore. 229 bell. Serial number 258155, so it was made around 1986. Chassis and bell are silver plated. The lead pipe is a Malone MC2 with reverse lead pipe setup. It's even marked with Bob's "Malone" stamp on the bell brace, which you can see in a photo. Lead pipe and tuning crook are raw brass. It's in terrific shape and would look even spiffier if you polish the silver. I haven't polished a trumpet since college!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a "thing" for medium-large Bach C trumpets back in the '90s and was thrilled when I found this one, especially with the Malone 'MC2' lead pipe and front end conversion. I mainly played it in chamber orchestra settings, but when I got good rotary trumpets, they blended even better, so I haven't played this trumpet in 15 years. Still love it; I just don't play it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people like these because the difference when switching between their Bb and a large-bore C is less exaggerated. Some just like the blow and sound better than a large-bore C trumpet, and of course, lots of players prefer a large-bore.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you know the value and cost of Bob Malone's C trumpet conversions, you'll have an idea how rare this medium-large Bachalone is, and that they are made no more. The MC2 leadpipe is featured on the Yamaha New York Artist model at nearly twice the price.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-68776899526276262072019-05-31T14:02:00.001-07:002019-10-04T17:17:23.874-07:00Ganter B-flat Rotary Trumpet for sale<b>UPDATE: <span style="color: red;">SOLD.</span></b><br />
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Over time, some of us acquire more trumpets than we need. I achieved that long ago. I've been meaning to sell several for many years. This is just the start. :)<br />
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Coming soon: Bach long bell D; rotary valve C piccolo; Bach/Malone D/Db; Egger 3-hole baroque trumpet; Keavy/vanRyne 4-hole baroque trumpet; Bach ML C trumpet.<br />
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<b>For Sale: Ganter B-flat rotary-valve trumpet: "Mod. Nr. G. 7a"</b></h3>
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Really great shape. Lacquer with nickel (?) garland. $3,200.00. I'll add in a large Yamaha hard double case. Cases that fit rotary trumpets can be hard to find.<br />
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Contact: Ray@raymondburkhart.com<br />
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Interested L.A. locals can come test it.<br />
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Ganter was a top brand back in the 1980s, until the shop closed. Compare this with Weimann, Dowids, Schagerl, and Yamaha rotaries today.<br />
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<br />Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-43754494435064006582018-04-23T02:51:00.000-07:002018-04-23T03:30:25.278-07:00Fun at the 2018 SoCal Scandinavian FestivalI think the concept of "blogging" didn't originally include skipping an entire year. Oh well. As is said in some big bands, "Where does the time come from?" Or something like that....<br />
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So. Yesterday I attended the <a href="http://scandinavianfest.org/" target="_blank">43rd Scandinavian Festival</a>, held at <a href="https://www.callutheran.edu/" target="_blank">California Lutheran University</a> in Thousand Oaks, California. 'Twas a lovely, sunny day of 85 degrees F, or thereabouts, and I overheard some Norwegians remark on the heat. Apparently, it's somewhat warmer here than there.<br />
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My good friend, Dr. Joan Haaland Paddock, Professor of Music at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, was there, presenting, performing, and teaching about aspects of Scandinavian culture, especially the Norwegian wooden natural trumpet called the "lur." And all this time, I thought the lur of Norway was its fjords!<br />
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Joan and I have coached and played brass chamber music at the <a href="http://www2.humboldt.edu/brass/" target="_blank">Humboldt State University Brass Chamber Music Workshop</a> for quite a few years now, and we became old friends in about five minutes when we first met there. Hubby Paul bravely endures her various travels away from home, as she flies to Norway now and then and performs annually at the <a href="http://hostfest.com/" target="_blank">Norsk </a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://hostfest.com/" target="_blank">Høstfest</a> </span>in Minot, North Dakota. This was her second year at the SoCal ScanFest, but only my first. And it was wonderful!<br />
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It really isn't a large event, geographically, situated as it is in a beautiful dell on the Cal Lu campus, complete with trees and a stream, which was a big hit with the many kids there. Quite the family outing, and despite its title, the ethnic diversity in attendance was terrific. After all, who doesn't like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86bleskiver" target="_blank">aebleskiver</a>? It had all the elements you'd expect -- Scandinavian food court, booths to buy all sorts of fun and beautiful things, cooking demonstrations, folk dancing, folk music, storytelling, and of course, the lur of Joan. And they had the truly requisite element -- an ABBA tribute band on the main stage at end of day. Mamma mia, it was good times. (If the Swedish Chef was there, I didn't see him.)<br />
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One highlight for me and other children was when Joan showed a dozen-or-so kids how to play the lur. Okay, they were in fact collapsible vuvuzelas, but the younguns got to decorate and keep them. Actual birch-wrapped spruce lurs might have been a bit pricey.<br />
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Another highlight was "Under the Northern Lights," a presentation by <a href="http://www.samiculturalcenter.org/a-visit-with-sami-storyteller-stina-fagertun/" target="_blank">Stina Fagertun</a> and <a href="http://artist.trinestrand.no/" target="_blank">Trine Strand</a> featuring stories and traditional songs of northern Norway along with some of Trine's original songs. I learned a bit about the Sami culture and history, and Stina -- who hails from WAY up north in Norway -- told the best joke I've heard in quite awhile: Referring to the cold Norwegian temperatures, she said, "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing!" Perfect.<br />
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The show by Stina and Trine was actually very moving. I expect to study up on Norway and its northern climes. I could see composing a suite about it. And Trine Strand is quite the composer and recording artist. What a voice. She made a gift to me of her latest CD, "Nord," and I'm listening to it over and over. So beautiful, and I don't even know what she's singing about! I highly recommend it. <a href="http://artist.trinestrand.no/" target="_blank">Please visit her site</a>.<br />
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And I almost forgot. Joan played some of my music for postlude for yesterday's church service. Trumpet and organ, with a lur descant that she wrote herself. What an honor, Joan.<br />
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Thanks to Joan, Stina, and Trine for a lovely day.<br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-3846306005409867792016-10-25T21:07:00.000-07:002017-11-24T16:01:28.458-08:00Premiered and Published: Burkhart, 'Fanfare St. Antoni'On Sunday, September 25, 2016 I had the pleasure of attending the world premiere of my new composition, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10-plus.php" target="_blank">Fanfare St. Antoni</a>,</i> played by the <a href="http://contracostachamberorchestra.org/" target="_blank">Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra</a> under the direction of my good friend, Timothy Smith, in the world-class Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California. <span style="color: red;">Hear the world premiere</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/s4xDTjibHDo" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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<i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10-plus.php" target="_blank">Fanfare St. Antoni</a></i> is a strongly thematic and exciting fanfare for orchestral brass and percussion <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span>3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, tenor drum, bass drum, cymbals, and tam-tam. One of the CCCO trumpeters told me, "This is a great fanfare! Every orchestra in the country should play it." Naturally, I agree, but I'd add two points: I hope it gets played outside the US, as well, and it need not be played by orchestras only! The brass and percussion sections of bands can play it, and there are many brass ensembles that will add a few percussion players and embrace the work.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Find out more and order</span> <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10-plus.php" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Smith commissioned the work to celebrate his tenth season conducting the CCCO. <i>Fanfare St. Antoni</i> opened the program, which included music by Wolfgang Mozart, John Brahms, Cindy McTee, and Paul Hanson.<br />
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Hanson soloed on Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-flat and on his own composition, <i>Concerto Serpentique</i> for electronic bassoon and orchestra. I loved Hanson's work, and his improvised cadenza, during which he played continually for over four minutes using the "circular breathing" technique, was simply amazing. The entire concert was very well done. It concluded with Brahms' great and famous <i>Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn</i>, which has long been one of my favorite works. It's one of Smith's favorites, as well.<br />
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In fact, in conceiving the commission for the new fanfare<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> – </span>which opened the CCCO concert with its "Now and Then" theme<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> – </span>Smith hoped I could make a new composition with references to either Brahms' <i>Variations on a Theme of Haydn</i> or to the <i>Chorale St. Antoni</i> upon which it was based. It's a mix. Post-Brahms scholarship has revealed that the <i>Chorale St. Antoni</i> was not composed by Haydn, and I felt that too close a relationship to the Brahms masterpiece might limit the appeal of the new work, and so <i>Fanfare St. Antoni</i> stands on its own as a concert opener or fanfare for a special occasion, and its special Haydn and Brahms elements only add to the interest when programmed accordingly.<br />
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I am very grateful to Tim Smith for commissioning the work and to the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra for premiering it. <i>Bravi tutti!</i><br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-37416666218958594972016-09-20T12:22:00.000-07:002017-11-24T13:30:20.067-08:00Premiere: Raymond Burkhart, Fanfare St. AntoniMy new composition, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10-plus.php" target="_blank">Fanfare St. Antoni</a>, </i>will be premiered on Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25, 2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area by the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Timothy Smith, conductor. [<a href="http://contracostachamberorchestra.org/" target="_blank">website</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ContraCostaChamberOrchestra/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>]<br />
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Tim Smith commissioned <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10-plus.php" target="_blank"><i>Fanfare St. Antoni</i> for large brass and percussion ensemble</a> to celebrate his tenth season conducting the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra. The duration is about 4 minutes. The instrumentation is: 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, triangle, tenor drum, bass drum, cymbals, and tam-tam.<br />
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One of Smith's favorite works is the well known <i>Variations on a Theme by Haydn</i> by Johannes Brahms. It was one of the first works Smith conducted with the CCCO, and he selected it again for the first program of his tenth anniversary season, along with my new fanfare and works by Mozart, Milhaud, Cindy McTee, and the premiere of a concerto by Paul Hanson for electronic bassoon.<br />
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Smith's vision for my new work was to incorporate ideas from Brahms' <i>Variations </i>in a fanfare, with a contemporary, fresh sound, in keeping with the "Now and Then" theme for this concert. My solution was to create a vibrant, strongly thematic work using rhythmic elements and melodic motifs from Brahms' work and from the <i>Chorale St. Antoni</i> which inspired it. Scholarship has determined that <i>Chorale St. Antoni</i> was not actually composed by Josef Haydn, but Brahms didn't know this, but a rose is a rose, and all that.<br />
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My new music is in no way an arrangement, but new music. Listeners unfamiliar with <i>Chorale St. Antoni</i> and Brahms' <i>Variations</i> will hear new themes, while astute listeners familiar with the old works may hear many references, both to Brahms' <i>Variations</i> and to the original chorale. I could not resist one brief, composite "quote" from the original chorale, but this comes very late in the music, in a cameo role.<br />
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I'll be at the Sunday concert. Here are the details.<br />
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<li>2pm, Saturday, September 24, 2016. El Campanil Theatre, 602 W. 2nd Street, Antioch, CA. Ticket prices: adult, $15; seniors, $12; youth, $7, by phone or at the door. (925) 757-9500, <a href="http://www.elcampaniltheatre.com/">www.elcampaniltheatre.com</a>.</li>
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<li>2pm, Sunday, September 25, 2016. Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA. Ticket prices: adult, $30; seniors, $20; youth, $10, by phone or at the door. (925) 943-7469, <a href="http://www.lesherartscenter.org/">www.lesherartscenter.org</a>.</li>
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My other career, you see – tho I speak of it little – is as
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have trod the boards. I have brought down the house. And when the time came,
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Like many thespians, my beginnings were in the theatuh, mine
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in the discipline. Thrice have I broken a leg, nay, four or five times, yet
while cameras were not unknown in that era, I now have no photos to document
these older productions. Perhaps as a result of this essay, some will come
forward. I’d like that. And while, as I recount my earliest work, you may say,
“school plays,” there are those who think of them as the work of a prodigy. And
when I say, “those,” yes, I mean me.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In third grade, at Lincoln Street Elementary School, I debuted
in the role of a Chinese magistrate, in what I must admit was a forgettable
play, since in fact I have all but forgotten it. My soliloquy lives on, perhaps,
in the memories of my fellow students, were any of them eidetics. I had the
lead, an auspicious start to a decade-long career, but all I really recall is that
Mom made my costume, adding to her already <span style="font-family: inherit;">illustrious </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">résumé </span></span>both costume
designer and costume maker. It was a long, flowing green thing, reaching to my
ankles and graced with red and black trim at my sleeves and collar. On front
and back she traced some kind of elaborate geometric design in wide, black,
permanent marker. The gown flowed generously around me, like a warm summer’s
evening, which was good, since I wore it well into high school as a
Halloween costume, by which time it dipped only to my knees and fit somewhat
more snugly around the middle. Fortunately, my Fu Manchu mustache was applied
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My debut in a musical came in fifth grade. Some might have
called it a choir concert, but it was television-themed, I wore a costume, and
I had a solo. In truth, the solo was more of a trio, but more is always better
in show biz. Still, I did get to sing on my own for a verse, if humbly from
a trash can. The show was a Sesame Street pastiche, and I was one of three boys
bedecked in old green carpet singing that eternal hit, “I Love Trash.” And yes, we were all in trash cans. The director was a purist. As it happens, the other two
Oscars were tall and lithe, and when the curtain descended they easily popped
up and emerged from their props. I on the other hand must have had the smallest
of the three receptacles, since I had to wobble back and forth until I fell
over and could crawl my way out. I refuse to think that the reluctance of the
other singers, and even the parents, to assist me at this time of need might
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In sixth grade, at Bidwell Middle School, the footlights
called again. This time I played the hero, one Hercules, by name. There might
have been taller boys in class, but none apparently who were willing to memorize
lines, and in any case, I had experience. I donned a yellow tank top and rigged
my wristwatch's wide, tooled, leather wrist band – which really was quite the thing in
those days and hardly as hideous as it might sound now – into a MacGyverish arm
band, long before that character was ascendant, I might add. Sadly, my herculean work
failed to impress the girls, but I observe that we were very young, and they
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One of my teachers in eighth grade had some of his students
make their own movie. I was particularly attracted to this and was more
involved than the others. I helped write the script, acted in the role of a news anchor, and even directed some scenes. The old 8mm camera could not capture sound, so I
ended up recording a voice-over in post-production. You can imagine my
anticipation before viewing the movie at year’s end, but you might also imagine
my horror when I attended a second showing of the movie a year later, after my
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I pursued other interests mostly in high school. Took a hiatus, if
you will, from acting. But, when I was a senior at Red Bluff Union High School,
a production was scheduled of Neil Simon’s comedic masterwork, “Barefoot in the
Park.” Now, Neil envisioned the character of Mr. Munshin as not requiring an actual
actor. In the script, he is only spoken of, and spoken to, by the leads as an
imaginary being out of sight of the audience. In one scene, the female lead
directs some lovey-dovey words to a man in the apartment hallway, who she thinks is her
husband, only to find that the man is instead Mr. Munshin, an upstairs
neighbor. Ah, the stuff of comedy. Some of my actor friends thought it would be
funnier if at this point Mr. Munshin, in person, were to peer – perhaps even
leer – hopefully through the open apartment door before the mistake is found
out. My talents were sought, and with some assistance from costuming in the
form of a raincoat, my silent, walk-on response to the line, “Hey, lover, start
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Little more than a year later, I graduated from creating a
role to playing a real person. Danny Day-Lewis had his Lincoln, George Scott
had his Patton, and I had my Elvis. I know it’s an unusual choice, and my portrayal was limited to a single evening, but I counted it a great
responsibility. My time was not lengthy on the temporary Occidental
College dorm lounge stage, but playing a real person requires finesse
and sensitivity, and in my case, it also required a wig, black mascara, an
entirely white costume, and a large, sequined, cardboard and tin foil belt
buckle. In true collegiate fashion, our spectacle – for that it surely was, as
anyone who attended the 1981 Chilcott-Orr Fall Talent Show will attest – compared
and contrasted “Young Elvis” – my
colleague dancing wildly to “Nothin’ but a Hound Dog” – with what they affectionately termed,
“Old Elvis.” While I lip-synched to “Love Me Tender,” having just had my face
sprinkled with droplets of water before entering the spotlight, three co-eds
rushed the stage, screaming in delight and drying my face with their
handkerchiefs. This was encouraging, but alas, they were but ringers, engaged
in advance to heighten the drama.<br />
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Though I focused on other arts at Occidental, my acting nevertheless
expanded into television and movie roles. In the spring of 1980, shooting began
on the pilot episode of Steve Cannell’s crime-fighting comedy, “Ten Speed and
Brown Shoe.” The big ending was shot on a hot, sunny day in Long Beach’s
Veterans Memorial Stadium, and a marching band was required. Some Hollywood
casting genius approached Occidental College, which hadn’t had a marching band
in any living person’s memory, to supply one. We obliged, and the word was
spread, but when the motor coach was ready to transport us on a very early Saturday
morning to the location shoot, the number of true bandsmen was insufficient for
even a small marching band. Emissaries were sent to the freshman dorm to roust
several bleary-eyed wannabe sideliners, before they could fully comprehend what
was being asked of them, and when the need for a Drum Major was identified, and
a mace put in my hands, who was I to decline? I shared the field with the show’s
stars, Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum, and our efforts succeeded. The show was
picked up, as they say in the business, for an entire season. I suppose you could say ours was a singular success. I have just learned the show is now available on DVD,
with the exception of the pilot. Something about rights and lawyers and money. It's more common in Hollywood than you might think. Fortunately, I viewed the episode when it originally aired, but editors deemed
the marching band’s dramatic contributions to be less interesting than the car
chase, and so our screen time is so brief that if you blinked, you would miss the
entire band, which only appears in a shot so long that even the Drum Major, my
only TV role to date, can hardly be detected. In a related aside, I have all my
life been able to wiggle my ears, which is entertaining, but hardly original.
However, I can also wiggle either ear independently, and for many years I was
aware of no one else who could do this. But then, Jeff Goldblum did it one night on the
Letterman Show, and now we are two. If I encounter Jeff some day again on set, I shall bend
his ear on the subject.<br />
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And finally, motion pictures. Talkies. The Big Screen. It
was 1981, fast on the heels of my TV debut, when Hollywood came a’calling. The
picture was “Choices,” based on the true story of a handsome, high school
senior with outstanding talents in both football and violin, but who also has
significant hearing loss. Some of his friends are good people, some are not,
and family dynamics pressure him to weigh his love of sports with his abilities
in music. He has to make some important, uh, choices. I’ll admit, it’s not an
A-movie, and it might not even be a B-movie, but surely there is some letter of
the alphabet with which it may be graded. In an ironic acting stretch, I play
an orchestral trumpeter. I have no lines, it’s true, and the music you hear was
recorded later by a studio orchestra, but there’s no such thing as a small
role, only small actors. Note the way I look up, when called. Observe how I look down when castigated. Acting, you see, is all in the eyes. By some miracle, the picture has been released on DVD,
and you, too, can own a copy for a small investment. Very small. In my scene
(31 minutes in, for anyone who wants to know), the kid plays assistant
concert-master in a youth orchestra that his grandfather conducts. They are
rehearsing Handel’s Royal Fireworks, and the trumpets tick off Grandpappy by
making mistakes. This, of course, is not completely unknown in the real world, but
in the movie, the kid gets so annoyed at the conductor’s behavior that he jumps
up and leaves the orchestra in furious disgust. Now, I know just a little about orchestras,
and never, ever – not since the first Tyrannosaurus Rex led the very first dinosorchestra
– has a string player EVER left a rehearsal in anger over a conductor’s
treatment of brass players. You can wish, you can dream, but that ain’t never
happened, and it ain’t never gonna happen in real life, such are the social
bonds between the sections of an orchestra. Anyway, another genius Hollywood
casting director secured the services of the Peter Meremblum Youth Orchestra,
of which I was a member at the time, and we scooted off early one Saturday <i>en
masse</i> on bus to Simi Valley High School, which interestingly portrayed itself in this picture.
However, the orchestra’s use of the word “Youth” was somewhat malleable, and a
problem quickly arose. The script called for the horns to be the clammy culprits, which is not really a dramatic stretch, but one of our horn players that day was
decidedly bald and not at all convincing in the role of a high schooler. So,
they switched out the cue ball for us trumpets, and consequently, I’m in a few wide shots
of the orchestra, and yes, I have a 2- or 3-second close-up. On a side note,
the female lead was also in my scene, and it was apparently her birthday, since
there was a cake for her after we wrapped for the day. Her name? Demi Moore. It
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I haven’t acted in quite some time, but IMDb will probably read this and add me to their site soon. And I haven’t given up, either.
I’m thinking of writing a little. And directing, of course. Isn’t that what
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Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-54676857477800801932016-03-10T15:29:00.000-08:002017-11-24T13:27:38.763-08:00Premiered: “Suite Arcata” for Mixed Wind QuintetMy composition <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">“</span><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-with-other.php" target="_blank">Suite Arcata</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">”</span> received its world premiere on September 27, 2015 at Pomona College, and I now have the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzuzLwuwG74" target="_blank">video</a> to prove it! I hope you<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span>ll enjoy a look and listen.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The occasion was Pomona College</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">s inaugural Chamber Music Extravaganza featuring primarily their applied music faculty. It was a lot of fun, and <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-with-other.php" target="_blank">Suite Arcata</a></i> concluded the concert. I am very, very grateful to my wonderful colleagues who joined me enthusiastically in the performance: Rachel Rudich, Chisco Castillo, Linda Sylva, and Carolyn Beck.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"><i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-with-other.php" target="_blank">Suite Arcata</a></i> is in three movements: I. <i>Winter Rain</i>, II. <i>Coastal Fog</i>, and III. <i>Summer Sun</i>. Total duration is about eleven minutes of music. Usually in my music, I don't try to tell stories. I do try to capture the essence of something or relate emotions, and sometimes that tells a story very well. I find that if I express an idea or emotion clearly to the minds and hearts of my listeners, they infuse the music with their own private meaning. That</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">s my goal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">What, then, are my ideas behind <i>Suite Arcata</i>? Much more than invoking Arcata</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">s seasonal weather conditions! It</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">s true that I love the northern California coast, with its winding roads, quaint towns, and scenic beaches and rock formations in rugged alternation, but in this piece, as in so many others, I let the music determine my titles. Woodwinds and, yes, even the trumpet, can perform very agile passages, so I explored some of that in the first movement, along with rhythmic asymmetry and occasional dense dissonance. The second movement was motivated by a common human emotion, but it need not be further defined, since listeners will connect to this music in their own way. And as life proceeds from its occasional tears to days of sunny, carefree, weekend fun, so </span><i style="line-height: 18.2px;">Suite Arcata</i><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> concludes with a whimsical smile of a third movement that I once described as having a </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">palm trees and light breeze</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">”</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> feel. And throughout the work I play with changing meters, instrumental solos, and colorful pairings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-with-other.php" target="_blank">Suite Arcata</a></i> was commissioned by the Chamber Players of the Redwoods in Humboldt County, California. I enjoy good ties with several of the group</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">s members, given my many years as a coach, lecturer, and performer at the <a href="http://www2.humboldt.edu/brass/" target="_blank">Humboldt State University Brass Chamber Music Workshop</a> (held in Arcata annually since 1974), and Val Phillips<b>–</b>original Brass Chamber Music Workshop director, esteemed retired HSU music faculty member, and Chamber Players of the Redwoods mover and shaker<b>–</b>approached me in 2012 with the idea of the commission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Val is a fine horn player, chamber musician, and arts proponent. He likes to bring people and things together. The big vision type, who can manage the details, as well. And during decades of directing both brass chamber music and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">“</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">normal</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> chamber music workshops, he developed a growing desire to break down the wall between them, even if just a little. <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-with-other.php" target="_blank">Suite Arcata</a></i> contributes to that effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This isn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">t a new idea, of course. Chamber music </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">“</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">crossover</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> works that blend brass instruments with the more usual chamber music </span>suspects <span style="font-family: inherit;">include Carlos Ch</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">ávez</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">s <i>Soli No. 1</i> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">(oboe, clarinet, trumpet, and bassoon, 1933), </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul Hindemith</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">s <i>Septett fur Blasinstrumente </i>(flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, and trumpet, 1948), V</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">incent Persichetti</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">s <i>Serenade No. 6</i> (trombone, viola, and cello, 1950), </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">Mel Powell</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">s </span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">Divertimento </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">(flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, and bassoon, 1957), and Michael Cunningham</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">s <i>Epitaph for Dylan Thomas</i> (brass quintet and piano, 1961). There are surely others. I didn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">t realize it at the time, but my own early work, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-4.php" target="_blank">Three Psalms</a></i> (flute, oboe, trumpet, and bassoon, 1982), also contributes to this repertoire.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sheet music for my <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-4.php" target="_blank">Three Psalms</a></i> is available at present in a purely <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-4.php" target="_blank">woodwind quartet version</a> for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. <i>Suite Arcata</i> is currently published in its <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-with-other.php" target="_blank">original version</a>, but I expect soon to publish it for standard woodwind quintet, as well. <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/wwinds-5.php" target="_blank">[Update: <i>Suite Arcata</i> is now available for woodwind quintet.]</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.2px;">Thanks for reading. Thanks for listening and viewing. If you want to explore commissioning music for your ensemble, please write me at ray@raymondburkhart.com.</span><br />
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No, I wasn't a student at Caltech, but I do have links there. My uncle Noel went to Caltech in the 1940s and was captain of their football team. An athlete-scholar. My brother Reed attended Caltech while I was a short distance away, attending Occidental College. He sang in the Men's Glee Club, played sax in the jazz band, and was an All American water polo goalie. A musician-athlete-scholar. And a dear family friend, sort of my "adopted" grandmother, attended Throop College of Technology, just before it became Caltech in 1920.<br />
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While not a Caltech student, I still made a lot of music there. Bill Bing was my trumpet teacher at Occidental and a good friend. He and his wife, Delores, are Artists-in-Residence and Co-Directors of Instrumental Music at Caltech, and Bill saw to it that I got lots of valuable musical experience, to help me prepare for a career in music. If some of that experience was gained playing in his Caltech concert band, jazz band, and brass quintet, so much the better. I can certainly attest to the enhanced learning benefits of playing chamber music with one's teacher!<br />
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Not long after I graduated from Oxy, I sometimes subbed for Bill at Caltech, leading rehearsals of the concert band and jazz bands. I composed and arranged for the Caltech Concert Band, as well. When someone discovered a piano score to E. C. Kammermeyer's "Throop Institute March," Bill had me score it for band. They've played it often, including at their Carnegie Hall concert in 2008. Hear some of it in <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/scientists-play-carnegie-hall/" target="_blank">this CBS news story</a> (second bit of music, around 1:40). I also arranged a medley of Caltech songs from the 1920s for their band. The five songs plus alma mater have the 1920s corny sentimentality you might expect, and given that in those days the Los Angeles area was undergoing almost nightly spraying of malathion to eradicate a crop-endangering insect infestation, my arrangement became (almost) lovingly known as the Caltech Medfly. You could play it and put it away, but every few years, it'd come back. Bill also commissioned my first composition for band, <i>Exordium</i>. I guess I thought a Latin title would kick it up a notch. Check out Caltech Bands <a href="http://bands.caltech.edu/concert.php" target="_blank">here</a>, and you can listen to the <i>Throop Institute March</i> and the <i>Caltech Medley</i>, as recorded on the Caltech Band CD, "TECHnically Sound," <a href="http://bands.caltech.edu/TECHnically%20Sound.php" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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But the fact is, I don't recall actually playing much in the Caltech Brass Quintet. Yes, we met to rehearse every week, and we performed plenty, but we spent most of our time laughing. Bill Bing is a natural comic, as anyone knows who has attended one of his nearly 40 years of giving Caltech instrumental concerts, and he invariably brought to our invariably-late-night rehearsals his orange dog, "Mousse." I always thought it was "Moose," which was already pretty funny for such a small dog, but I can see now that Mousse might have acquired his name from the, uh, odd way his hair, such as he had, stuck out from his body, like it was dressed up with mousse. But, as Shakespeare surely would have avoided saying, Mousse/Moose by any other name would be just as orange.<br />
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We all loved Mousse, but he was either the source of, or the object of, a great deal of humor. That was mainly thanks to the rest of the members of the group. Hornist David Hodge worked at Caltech, building specialized research equipment. Tubist Mark Cohen was a doctoral student in Chemistry. Trombonist Greg Ojakangas was a doctoral student in Astrophysics; also a gifted jazz musician. And the three of them just wouldn't let up on the jokes. If guys in unguarded moments display the social development of a seventh-grader, then these guys were at the top of the class. I think Bill always had a musical goal in mind, a grand purpose for each rehearsal, but we rarely bore down too hard on details. We couldn't. We were just having too much fun keeping each other in giggles and stitches. Even as we'd take the stage to perform, I'd be in tears of laughter.<br />
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For the trumpet geeks -- and please correct me, Bill, if I'm wrong -- the trumpet Bill has in the above picture is his Conn 22B, which had previously belonged to Harry Glantz.<br />
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I've lost touch with Marc and Greg and David. Maybe through the mysteries of the cyberweb one or more will get in touch. That'd be nice. I don't see Bill enough, and while we've long been friends, he probably doesn't know just to what an extent he was a positive and important influence on me, at a time when I needed it. Thanks, Bill. You've mentored many young musicians into better lives of music and humanity, especially at Caltech!<br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-12993158568979248482015-05-09T18:33:00.001-07:002017-11-24T13:20:14.722-08:00Published: "Two Roman Motets" for brass quintetMy new arrangement for brass quintet, <i>"Two Roman Motets,"</i> is now published by <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Premiere Press</a>. You can view a performance of one of the motets <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xrJqDjxaKM" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The brothers Fabio and Alessandro Costantini, long thought to have been born in the small Italian town of Staffolo, were prominent church composers in 17th-century Rome. After my thrilling week in Staffolo <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 12.3199996948242px;"> </span>playing, conducting, and teaching as part of Staffolo's 20th annual Music Festival in June 2014 <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 12.3199996948242px;"> </span>I decided to honor Staffolo and my many new friends there by arranging and publishing an arrangement for brass quintet of two 17th-century motets, one by Fabio Costantini and one by Alessandro Costantini. The publication is dedicated to the conductor of the Staffolo Town Band, Maestro Samuele Faini. Each motet lasts about 2.5 minutes.</div>
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Elsewhere in this blog, you can read my posts about <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2014/07/im-in-italy.html" target="_blank">my 2014 Italian adventure</a>, more about <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2015/03/premiered-ricordi-ditalia-and-two-roman.html" target="_blank">how I came to write <i>Two Roman Motets</i> and my new composition <i>Ricordi d'Italia</i></a>, and all about their <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2015/01/world-premiere-ricordi-ditalia.html" target="_blank">world premieres</a> in January 2015.</div>
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-27559181364177922812015-05-09T18:07:00.000-07:002017-11-24T13:18:48.797-08:00Published: "Ricordi d'Italia" for brass quintet<i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Ricordi d'Italia</a></i> (Memories of Italy), my new composition for brass quintet, is now published by <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Premiere Press</a>. You can view excerpts of its world premiere on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fljENel3lNs" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The four movements of <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Ricordi d'Italia</a> are </i>based on experiences I enjoyed in Italy during the summer of 2014. The first movement (<i>Staffolo Fanfare</i>) is a flashy opening that honors the small hilltop town where I spent one of the best weeks of my life. The second movement (<i>The Ancient Wall</i>) ponders the mysteries of the many Roman walls that surround towns like Staffolo. The third movement (<i>Bella Valentina</i>) is a joyous waltz with optional sing-along, sort of a valentine from me to the lovely women of Italy. The fourth movement (<i>Canzon San Marco</i>) honors the music of the great Venetian composer, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Basilica San Marco, where his timeless antiphonal music was played. The overall duration is about 11'30".<br />
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Elsewhere in this blog I have written about <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2014/07/im-in-italy.html" target="_blank">my 2014 Italian adventure</a>, how <i>Ricordi d'Italia</i> <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2015/01/world-premiere-ricordi-ditalia.html" target="_blank">came to be composed</a>, and of <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2015/03/premiered-ricordi-ditalia-and-two-roman.html" target="_blank">its world premiere</a>.<br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-17201322266227788402015-03-03T16:00:00.000-08:002017-11-24T13:14:27.576-08:00Premiered: Ricordi d'Italia and Two Roman MotetsIn <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2015/01/world-premiere-ricordi-ditalia.html" target="_blank">my last post</a>, I described the then-upcoming "Sounds of Italy" concert in Palo Alto, California, given by the <i>Amici Americani </i>and <a href="http://www.oxfordstreetbrass.com/" target="_blank">Oxford Street</a> brass quintets.<br />
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The program was Italy-related, and some of my brass quintet works were performed, including my popular three-movement suite, <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank"><i>Italian Postcards</i>,</a> my palindromic fanfare, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Toot</a></i>, and the world premieres of my original four-movement suite, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Ricordi d'Italia</a>,</i> and my arrangements of two 17th-century Roman choral works by the Costantini brothers, Fabio and Alessandro, entitled <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Two Roman Motets</a></i>. <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10.php" target="_blank">My arrangement of Giovanni Gabrieli's <i>Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2 </i>for large brass ensemble</a> was also performed, by joining the <i>Amici Americani </i>with the Oxford Street Brass.<br />
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<i>Ricordi d'Italia</i> fulfilled a commission to compose a piece for brass quintet based on my experiences in Italy during the summer of 2014. It's a great story with lots of photos. <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2014/07/im-in-italy.html" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/fljENel3lNs" target="_blank">Click here for a YouTube video montage</a> of excerpts from each of the four movements of <i>Ricordi d'Italia</i>. The audience sing-along in the third movement, <i>Bella Valentina</i>, is optional, but loads of fun!</div>
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I arranged <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php">Two Roman Motets</a></i> in honor of my many new friends in the lovely small town of Staffolo, Italy, especially those in the <a href="http://www.bandamusicalestaffolo.it/" target="_blank">town band</a>. It is dedicated to the band's director, Maestro Samuele Faini. </div>
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Brothers Fabio and Alessandro Costantini, whose lifetimes extended from the late 16th century well into the 17th century, were long thought to have been born in Staffolo, and while recent research suggests otherwise, they are still revered there. Both Costantinis held church music positions in Rome and elsewhere, playing organ and composing choral music. </div>
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<i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Ricordi d'Italia</a>,</i> <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Two Roman Motets</a>, </i>and my arrangement of <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10.php" target="_blank">Giovanni Gabrieli's <i>Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2</i></a> for brass ensemble (eight or ten brass) will be published soon and available for purchase from my <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/premiere.php" target="_blank">online store</a>. See <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/" target="_blank">RaymondBurkhart.com</a>.<br />
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Chamber music is often called 'the music of friends', and so it was with the commission of <i>Ricordi d'Italia,</i> the arranging of <i>Two Roman Motets</i>, and the Sounds of Italy concert. Friendship was key. My <i>Amici</i> friends, Mark Lindenbaum and John Monroe, together with their better halves, Margaret Jahn and Meg Monroe, commissioned <i>Ricordi d'Italia.</i> I arranged <i>Two Roman Motets</i> to honor our friends in Italy. And many friends and family attended the Sounds of Italy concert. It was a great pleasure to see them there. One friend flew in from as far away as Arkansas!<br />
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Friends in the audience also generously supported our charitable goals. The Oxford Street Brass raised funds for the <a href="http://www.mhopus.org/" target="_blank">Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation</a>, and the <i>Amici</i> raised funds to assist in the bringing of a student musician from Italy to attend the 2015 <a href="http://www2.humboldt.edu/brass/" target="_blank">Humboldt State University Brass Chamber Music Workshop</a> in Arcata, California. The <i>Amici</i> and the Oxford Streeters are very grateful for this support.<br />
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Brass chamber music may be more popular in the world today than ever before. The <i>Amici Americani</i> relish that tradition and hope to promote brass chamber music on both sides of the Atlantic. Friends joined together in a worthy goal may accomplish great things!<br />
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Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-31673040048338194402015-01-03T20:22:00.000-08:002017-11-24T13:06:45.320-08:00World Premiere: Ricordi d’ItaliaAh, I remember it well. Italy, that is. The good weather, the better food, the best gelato. Making music, making friends, and now, making memories <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b> literally. Memories of Italy. <i><span style="color: #990000;">Ricordi d'Italia.</span></i><br />
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I already blogged about my summer 2014 trip to Italy. You can read it, and see some fun photos, <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2014/07/im-in-italy.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Part of that experience included a commission to compose music for brass quintet, based on my experiences in Italy. I recently finished that work, <b><i>Ricordi d</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><i>’</i></span></b><i><b>Italia</b> </i>(Memories of Italy). <span style="color: #990000;">The world premiere is to be given at 8pm, Saturday, January 10, 2015 on the <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 12.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">“</span></span>Sounds of Italy<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 12.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">”</span></span> concert at All Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto, CA. </span><br />
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Two brass quintets will perform: the <i>Amici Americani degli Ottoni</i> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b> the quintet that went to Italy last summer <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b> and the <a href="http://www.oxfordstreetbrass.com/" target="_blank">Oxford Street Brass</a>, a quintet from the San Francisco Bay area. Each quintet will give about half of the program, and the combined quintets will perform two pieces for large brass ensemble<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b> a transcription of Giovanni Palestrina<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;">’</span>s <i>Jubilate Deo</i> and <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-10.php" target="_blank">my arrangement of Giovanni Gabrieli<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;">’</span>s <i>Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2</i></a>. The <i>Amici </i>will premiere my <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank"><i>Ricordi d</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;"><i>’</i></span><i>Italia</i></a>, and the Oxford Street Brass will perform my earlier work, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Italian Postcards</a></i> (<a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2013/04/postcards.html" target="_blank">see blog</a>). It’ll be great to have both works on the same program, along with music by Antonio Vivaldi, Gioachino Rossini, José Carli, Luigi Zaninelli, the Costantini brothers, and Zack Smith.<br />
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The concert is free. A free-will offering will be taken to support causes supported by the two ensembles.<br />
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I’m truly grateful for the ways in which the rest of the <i>Amici </i>– Tom Hyde, Tyler Morse, John Monroe, and Mark Lindenbaum – and the Oxford Street Brass – Rob Lenicheck, Ken Walter, Cathleen Torres, Greg Bergantz, and Bob Lipton – are participating in and supporting the <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 12.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">“</span></span>Sounds of Italy<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 12.3199996948242px;">”</span> concert.<br />
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Here are some other notes about <i>Ricordi d<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; line-height: 14.7839994430542px;">’</span>Italia</i>.<br />
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The first movement, <i>Staffolo Fanfare</i>, is based on the rhythm of the phrase, “I love Staffolo!” And indeed, I do.<br />
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In the slow second movement, <i>The Ancient Wall, </i>I hope to evoke the venerable mystery suggested by the ancient walls that still surround old sections of many Italian hilltop towns. To me, these medieval walls stand as silent witnesses to centuries of events, both great and small, momentous and ordinary. The theme is derived from the group warm-ups the <i>Amici </i>enjoyed each morning, as we sat on one of the porches at Mark’s home just outside Staffolo, taking in the gorgeous views and exhaling the sweet farmland air through our instruments.<br />
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The third movement, <i>Bella Valentina,</i> is more fanciful than autobiographical. I did meet a lovely young college student named Valentina in a gelato shop (<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gelateria-Riva-Varenna/197413160296765" target="_blank">Gelateria Riva</a></i>) during a sudden rainstorm one afternoon in the charming little town of Varenna on Lake Como, and while we enjoyed a good chat, a legendary romance was not in the making. I was, however, immediately struck by the melodiousness of her name, and I suspected it would figure in some way in my new composition. When it came time to write a love song movement, I rejected the idea of slow music – I had already composed <i>The Ancient Wall</i> – in favor of something joyful and rousing. I recalled how, at some of the dinners that the <i>Amici Americani</i> enjoyed with the Staffolo City Band, that a guest band would not commence to eat until they had sung a particular, very jolly song. So, I crafted <i>Bella Valentina</i> as a seemingly old folk song, overlayed with increasingly complex contrapuntal lines – sort of a musical lasagna. There is even an optional vocal section in which the audience may sing along.<br />
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The fourth movement, <i>Canzon San Marco,</i> is my homage to the great polychoral music popular in Venice at Basilica San Marco around the year 1600, especially the music of Giovanni Gabrieli. This repertoire – whose original popularity was widely influential, but relatively brief – is still engaging and much enjoyed today, especially by many brass players. I deeply treasure the experience of visiting St. Mark’s, observing its remarkable design, and imagining Gabrieli’s music sounding throughout the space. Treading the same floors and stairwells used by Gabrieli and his musicians over four centuries ago had special meaning for me. The movement opens, Gabrieli-like, with imitative counterpoint. I formed my theme by combining melodies from the first and penultimate measures of Gabrieli’s <i>Canzon Septimi Toni, No. 2</i> (from <i>Sacrae Symphoniae,</i> 1597). The successive entrances of my five voices, however, outline a major 9 chord, which, along with other departures from Gabrieli’s style, modernize the late-Renaissance Venetian sound. This leads to a cadence that sets off a jazz-rock waltz, complete with solos for horn and trombone. The movement closes with another Gabrieli-ish section, and musicians familiar with Gabrieli’s style will note many places where I employ or imitate nuances of his composition and orchestration.<br />
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I’ll report back after the concert. I hope to see you there!<br />
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<i>Ciao!</i><br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-12652693677508542832014-12-19T14:42:00.002-08:002017-11-24T11:59:45.327-08:00The Time for Auld Lang Syne is Now!The turn of a new year is celebrated in most cultures. It gives one pause to reflect on the past, to consider the future, and celebrate the present. It is widely traditional to sing <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">–</b> the historic words of Robbie Burns set to an old Scottish folk song <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">–</b> at midnight on New Year<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">’</span></b>s Eve and at other occasions when things of the past are brought to mind.<br />
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I have always loved <i>Auld Lang Syne</i>, and this post tells how I came to arrange it for many kinds of ensembles (choral and instrumental), and more importantly, how you can get your own copy to sing or play at New Year<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">’</span></b>s, retirements, parties, and even chamber music readings. Let this modern setting be not forgot!<br />
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My arrangement of <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> of approximately four minutes in length (can be shortened to one or two verses, if desired) is available for purchase right now for:<br />
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<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/choir-a-capella.php" target="_blank">SATB choir</a></li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/string-quartet.php" target="_blank">string quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/cello-4.php" target="_blank">cello quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/sax-4.php" target="_blank">saxophone quartet</a>: sop (or alto), alto, tenor, bari</li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/clarinet-4.php" target="_blank">clarinet quartet</a>: 2 Bb clarinets, alto clar (or 3d clar), bass clarinet</li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/bassoon-4.php" target="_blank">bassoon quartet</a>: 3 bsns, contra (or 4th bsn)</li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-4.php" target="_blank">brass quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/horn-4.php" target="_blank">horn quartet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/trombone-4.php" target="_blank">trombone quartet</a>: 3 trombones, bass trombone</li>
<li>and <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/tuba-4.php" target="_blank">tuba quartet</a>: 2 euphs, 2 tubas</li>
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In time, I might make more versions available. If you have a specific interest, write me to inquire: ray@raymondburkhart.com. The choral version is priced per copy. Instrumental versions are $14 plus tax and shipping.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">To Listen</span><br />
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To hear a recording of my <i>Auld Lang Syne</i>, go <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/tuba-4.php" target="_blank">HERE</a>, find <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> at the bottom of the page, then click <b>“</b>on <b>“</b>mp3<b>”</b> or <b>“</b>recording.<b>”</b> I thank tubist <a href="http://www.holbenpub.com/" target="_blank">David Holben</a> for making and offering this recording.<br />
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Also, the venerable <a href="http://hillstsaxquartet.com/" target="_blank">Hill St. Sax Quartet</a> recently played the sax quartet version streetside and "live" in Montrose, CA. Watch the video!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">How to Order</span><br />
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<b>These versions are available now</b>, even before <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/premiere.php" target="_blank">my website</a> can be updated. Some versions can be ordered there (<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/choir-a-capella.php" target="_blank">SATB choral</a>, <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-4.php" target="_blank">brass quartet</a>, <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/trombone-4.php" target="_blank">trombone quartet</a>, and <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/tuba-4.php" target="_blank">tuba quartet</a>), but for the others, email me for details, which basically are these: you can send the funds by Paypal, and I<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">’</span></b>ll send out the order ASAP. But, please email me first to get the correct amount (including shipping, and tax, if relevant).<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Backstory</span><br />
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In 1987, I wrote a bold, flashy version of <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> for my friend Kevin Brown and his Tournament of Roses Herald Trumpeters to play for the Rose Parade. When I joined the Disneyland Fanfare Trumpeters, they added that version to their repertoire. Then it came to me to write against type and give the Disneyland Fanfare Trumpeters a quiet version to play as well. I used jazz harmonies, and it was a hit. These two contrasting versions have been in print for many years as <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“</span></b>Two Settings of <i>Auld Lang Syne</i><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">”</span></b> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">– </b>one publication for <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/trumpet-4.php" target="_blank">four trumpets</a> and one publication for <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">brass quintet</a>.<br />
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Some years later, my friend, the eminent choral conductor, Dr. Thomas Somerville, retired from his long-time position as Director of Music at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, and his choir commissioned a setting of <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> to sing for him. I crafted a four-verse setting based on the jazzy version I had already done, and it was a success, too (<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/choir-a-capella.php" target="_blank">see my catalog, #1036</a>).<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Old Times, New Times</span><br />
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This year, John Skelton, who each year in Salem, Oregon conducts one of the many popular mass-tuba Christmas concerts, heard a performance of my trumpet ensemble version of <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> on Youtube, and he asked if I would make a version of it for his tuba event. Instead of adapting the trumpet version for him, I adapted my choral version, to provide more length and variety. It then hit me how this music could be adapted for many instrumental ensembles.<br />
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So, think of how you might enjoy this music. If you are in one of the kinds of ensembles listed above, you might use <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> at New Year<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">’</span></b>s time, either for a gig or just to sing or play with friends. You might use it for parties during the year <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">–</b> birthdays, retirements, or other special occasions. You might give it as a gift to friends and relatives who play chamber music, or you might want it for your choir to enjoy. Whatever your interest, be sure to consider adding my <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> to your library or giving it as a gift. Either way, new times are always coming when it<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">’</span></b>ll be good to celebrate the old times, and <i>Auld Lang Syne</i> will be just the thing you need!<br />
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Happy New Year!<br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-88486809263327941232014-07-21T13:31:00.000-07:002017-11-24T11:48:23.282-08:00I’m In Italy!Actually, I<span style="font-family: inherit;">’</span>m back home now, but I was in Italy for most of June and the early part of July 2014, and it was great. This is that story.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why</span></b><br />
I went to Italy this summer to participate in the 20th Annual Music Festival offered by the <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.679999351501465px;"><a href="http://www.bandamusicalestaffolo.info/" target="_blank">Banda Musicale Città di Staffolo</a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.679999351501465px;"><i style="font-size: 16.66666603088379px;"> </i>(Staffolo City Band)</span></span>. The festival concerts were given in Staffolo’s ancient piazza on June 28 and 29. For two videos from one of our concerts, and videos from other parts of the festival, go <a href="http://www.bandamusicalestaffolo.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=403%3Axx-ed-musica-in-festa-video&catid=61%3Aedizioni-di-qmusica-in-festaq&Itemid=71" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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My friends, Mark Lindenbaum and Margaret Jahn of Bellingham, Washington, recently renovated a farm house [see <a href="http://ulivetostaffolano.com/" target="_blank"><i style="text-align: center;">L</i><span style="color: black;">’</span><i style="text-align: center;">Uliveto Staffolano</i></a>] near Staffolo that is available to rent for self-catering vacations and which they visit once or twice per year. Given tubist Mark’s love for brass chamber music and his enjoyment of Staffolo, it was only a matter of time before he invited fellow brass players to Staffolo to play chamber music.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://ulivetostaffolano.com/" target="_blank">L'Uliveto Staffolano</a>:</i> self-catering apartments just outside Staffolo, Italy.</td></tr>
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But, Mark had larger plans. In recent years he has made friends in the Staffolo City Band. Working with civic and band leaders, a plan was formed to enlarge Staffolo’s annual band music festival to include brass chamber music played by a brass quintet assembled by Mark for the occasion.<br />
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Thus, the <i>Amici Americani degli Ottone</i> (American Friends of Brass) came to be. A large brass and percussion ensemble comprised of <i>Amici </i>and Staffolo band brass players was organized. The <i>Amici Americani</i> also performed in <i>concerto grosso</i> fashion with the Staffolo band, and the Staffolo band performed one of my compositions. The <i>Amici </i>and the large brass ensemble also performed some of my works.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rehearsing the large combined brass ensemble.</td></tr>
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Other musical and civic events were scheduled for the festival weekend, including a concert by the <a href="http://www.orchestradifiati.com/" target="_blank"><i>Orchestra di Fiati</i> (Wind Orchestra) <i>della Provincia di Vicenza</i></a> with their featured soloist, Italian tuba virtuoso <a href="http://www.alessandrofossi.net/" target="_blank">Alessandro Fossi</a>. The <i>Amici Americani </i>joined Fossi to perform the <i>Concertino da camera </i>for solo tuba and brass quintet by Swedish composer Christer Danielsson (1942-1989).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Amici Americani</i> with tuba soloist Alessandro Fossi.</td></tr>
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Festival performances were also given by <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.comune.ostra.an.it/Engine/RAServePG.php/P/2787100K0100/M/2508100K0101" target="_blank">Banda di Torrette e di Ostra</a></i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 15.680000305175781px; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.fiatiliceo.com/public/" target="_blank">Orchestra di Fiati del Liceo Rosmini di Rovereto</a>.</i></span><br />
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It was a pleasure and an honor to rehearse and perform with the <i>Amici Americani </i>and Alessandro Fossi and to conduct the large brass ensemble and the Staffolo band.<br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Where</b><br />
Staffolo is a small town about thirty minutes west of the Adriatic port city of Ancona in the eastern central region of Italy known as <i>Le Marche</i>. [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffolo" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>] [<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=staffolo+italy&rlz=1C1PRFA_enUS437US582&espv=2&biw=1242&bih=585&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YWLEU7OWM8H6iwLDi4HoAQ&ved=0CFUQ7Ak" target="_blank">Images</a>] Staffolo is considered one of the <a href="http://www.bestsmalltownsitaly.com/town/staffolo-the-marches-center/" target="_blank">Best Small Towns in Italy</a>. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQ8_-mrpQs" target="_blank">video</a> shows many images of the town where I spent one of the best weeks in my life. If you haven’t visited there, I highly recommend it!<br />
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Staffolo’s new Mayor, Patrizia Rosini, welcomed the <i>Amici </i>and the guest bands warmly and enthusiastically. She also presided over a formal ceremony recognizing the various participants in the music festival, where she presented me with a book containing important historical Staffolo documents, for which I am most grateful. Patrizia used to play tenor saxophone, so I think the Staffolo City Band has a bright future!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray and Staffolo Mayor Patrizia Rosini.</td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Who</b><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Amici Americani degli Ottone</i> </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amici Americani di Ottone</i> in Gubbio, Italy (L to R):<br />
John Monroe, Ray Burkhart, Tyler Morse, Mark Lindenbaum, and Tom Hyde.</td></tr>
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Mark Lindenbaum formed the <i>Amici Americani degli Ottone </i>(American Friends of Brass) from friends made at the <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-humboldt-state-university-brass.html" target="_blank">Humboldt State University Brass Chamber Music Workshop</a>. The players include trumpeters Tom Hyde of Graton, California and me; hornist Tyler Morse of Brisbane, California; trombonist John Monroe of Stanford, California; and Mark on tuba.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amici Americani in concert in Staffolo<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">’</span></span>s piazza, June 28, 2014.</td></tr>
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We spent a wonderful week in Staffolo preparing for the two concerts, but one cannot play a brass instrument all day, so the <i>Amici </i>visited nearby sights. At a local Staffolo festival, we heard local musicians, saw costumed children present regional dances, tasted local seafood and olive specialties, and met our first new Staffolo friends. <i>Ciao, Anno!</i> The nearby town of Cupramontana and its morning market supplied tasty cheeses, meats, and vegetables. Half-day trips to the Frasassi caves and the ancient hill town of Gubbio, with its Roman amphitheater, provided geographical and cultural delights. I introduced Tom to <i>granite</i> <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">–</span></b> Italy's yummy fruit slushes <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">–</span></b> and we all sought to find the best gelato.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Hyde and I cool it in Cupramontana.</td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Staffolo City Band</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Banda Musicale</i> <span style="font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic; line-height: 15.679999351501465px;"><a href="http://www.bandamusicalestaffolo.info/" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 15.679999351501465px; text-align: start;" target="_blank">Città di Staffolo</a> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15.679999351501465px;">in a proper pose.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.bandamusicalestaffolo.info/" target="_blank">Staffolo City Band</a> is made up of talented and fun musicians from the Staffolo area and nearby towns. Community bands figure importantly in Italian culture, and the Staffolo City Band appears in concerts and parades in Staffolo and surrounding communities and also travels to perform.<i style="line-height: 15.680000305175781px;"> </i></span>Players in the band range from boys and girls in grade school to retired folks, with everything in between! Daily rehearsals with the Staffolo band and its brass players were a highlight of the week.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the band, as I came to know them. They<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">’</span>re not as blurry in real life.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Music</span></b><br />
The Saturday night concert began with the large brass and percussion ensemble, followed by the <i>Amici Americani </i>brass quintet’s program and the band’s two pieces. Here’s the program (all of my compositions are in print and available for purchase--see links below):<br />
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<b>Combined Brass and Percussion</b></div>
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Raymond Burkhart, Conductor</div>
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Aaron Copland, <i>Fanfare for the Common Man</i></div>
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Chris Hazell, <i>Kraken </i></div>
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Hazell, <i>Mr. Jums</i></div>
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Jimmy McHugh (arr. John Iveson), <i>On the Sunny Side of the Street</i></div>
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<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/band-concert.php" target="_blank">Raymond Burkhart, <i>Rejoice!</i></a><br />
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<i>(Kraken </i>was encored.)</div>
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<i><b>Amici Americani degli Ottone</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Burkhart, <i>Toot</i></a></div>
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Victor Ewald, <i>Brass Quintet No. 1</i></div>
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Luigi Zaninelli, <i>Designs</i></div>
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<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Burkhart, <i>Italian Postcards</i></a></div>
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Kevin McKee, <i>Escape</i></div>
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John Cheetham,<i> Scherzo</i></div>
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<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Burkhart, <i>Shenandoah </i>from </a><i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Five Sea Shanties</a> </i>(encore)</div>
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<b>Staffolo City Band</b></div>
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<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/band-concert.php" target="_blank">Burkhart, <i>Sophie</i><span style="text-align: start;"><i>’</i></span><i>s Waltz</i></a></div>
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Raymond Burkhart, Conductor</div>
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Rayburn Wright, <i>Shaker Suite
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Samuele Faini, Conductor</div>
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<i>(Sophie</i><span style="text-align: start;"><i>’</i></span><i>s Waltz </i>was encored.)</div>
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The Sunday night concert featured a daring and highly polished program by the <a href="http://www.orchestradifiati.com/" target="_blank"><i>Orchestra di Fiati </i>(Wind Orchestra) <i>della Provincia di Vicenza</i></a>. In addition, the <i>Concertino da Camera </i>for solo tuba and brass quintet by Swedish composer Christer Danielsson was performed by Alessandro Fossi and the <i>Amici Americani.</i><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Looking Forward: A New Commission</b><br />
In relation to my appearance at the 2014 Staffolo Music Festival, Mark Lindenbaum, Margaret Jahn, and John and Meg Monroe have commissioned me to compose a new work for brass quintet based on my experiences in Italy. It is to be a three-movement suite of approximately ten minutes in length, due by summer 2015. I have already begun work. [In late 2014 I complete <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Ricordi d'Italia</a></i>, a four-movement suite for brass quintet, based on this trip-adventure.]<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The Accommodations</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The living room in the downstairs unit of <i><a href="http://ulivetostaffolano.com/" target="_blank">L<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">’</span></span>Uliveto Staffolano</a></i>.</td></tr>
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From <i><a href="http://ulivetostaffolano.com/">L’Uliveto Staffolano</a></i> <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b> Mark and Margaret’s beautifully appointed Italian home, which is a very short drive from Staffolo and most of the year is available for long-term, self-catering rental <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">–</span></b> the views in every direction are simply breathtaking. Twice-weekly market days provide all kinds of local produce and products. Local festivals of music and dance, accompanied by delicious food offerings, occur frequently, at least in summer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to dine on the rear patio at <i><a href="http://ulivetostaffolano.com/" target="_blank">L<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">’</span></span>Uliveto Staffolano</a></i>.</td></tr>
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For a break from home cooking and festival food, we visited Staffolo’s <i>Grotto di Frate</i>, a fine restaurant in the city’s ancient wall, for wonderful pizza and local dishes. Many other nearby towns have their own festivals and attractions. We visited Ancona’s sea coast, Gubbio’s historic ducal palace and Roman amphitheater, and the relatively recently discovered caverns of Frasassi. Of course, the best part of any community is its people, and I’m blessed now to have many new friends from among the welcoming people of Staffolo. I would return in a heartbeat. <i>Ciao, amici!</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The view from the patio outside my room at <i><a href="http://ulivetostaffolano.com/" target="_blank">L<span style="text-align: start;">’</span>Uliveto Staffolano</a></i>.</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks</span></b><br />
Unquestionably, this was a trip of a lifetime for me. I simply cannot fully express my gratitude to all who made this possible, nor can I possibly list everyone who deserves credit. But, I must name a few.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Lindenbaum, who got this all to happen. Thanks, Mark.</td></tr>
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First, my deepest gratitude to Mark Lindenbaum for many years of good friendship and collaboration and the warm hospitality I have always received from him and Margaret. Adding the <i>Amici Americani </i>to the Staffolo Band’s music festival was Mark’s idea, and it was he who brought me on board to play, conduct, and have my music featured at the festival. I also thank the rest of the <i>Amici </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b>Tom Hyde, Tyler Morse, and John Monroe <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">– </span></b>for their friendship and musicianship over many years and in Staffolo.<br />
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Many people worked long hours on the Italian side of things to make this year’s festival the great success that it was. Staffolo Band President Simona Bastari met me at the Jesi train station and deserves much credit. Accompanying her was band Secretary Damiano Cerioni, who is clearly a mover and shaker. He gets things done! And the band is full of hardworking planners and doers, including Vice President Patrizio Bianchi, Second Vice President Massimiliano Scortichini, Stefano Aquilanti, Italo Meschini, Matthia Zepponi, Sofia Sassaroli, Guido Mercanti, and others. The Staffolo City Band’s conductor, Maestro Samuele Faini, was a most gracious and helpful host. Staffolo Mayor Patrizia Rosini’s support was clearly essential. Thank you, Patrizia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray and Mirko Donninelli. <i>Gracie, Mirko!</i></td></tr>
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And I could hardly have functioned as a conductor without the able assistance of young hornist Mirko Donninelli, who translated for me with enthusiasm and excellence and who enabled me by week’s end to conduct a rehearsal in Italian, more or less.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More of Italy</span></b><br />
Having not visited Italy before, I extended my trip to include research visits to Milan, Varenna, Florence, Rome, and Venice. Traveling on my own, I visited many museums and churches. Images of trumpets and trumpeters may often be found in art from the Renaissance forward, and there is no better place on earth to study the Renaissance than in Italy.<br />
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My composition, <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank"><i>Italian Postcards</i> for brass quintet</a> (or septet), was composed many years ago, long before I ever set foot on Italian soil. With a trip planned to Italy, it was natural for me to visit the three cities which figure prominently in <i>Italian Postcards</i>: Rome, Venice, and Milan. I am happy to report that all three cities sound just exactly like I composed them! The following are a few of my trip photos.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brass instruments at Sforza Castle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nabucco </i>costumes in the <i>Teatro alla Scala </i>Museum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milan<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">’</span></span>s famed <i>Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II</i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Varenna on Lake Como.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Galleria dell<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">’</span>Accademia</i> in Florence has a few brass instruments,<br />
in addition to Michelangelo<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">’</span>s great David.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finally experience <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">“</span><i>Roma</i>. Sunrise at the Colosseum.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">”</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rehearsing the Staffolo City Band. Good times!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The horns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trombones.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trumpets.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tubas, Number One!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The saxes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Italo, anchor of the percussion section.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The church acoustics were perfect for a little unaccompanied trumpet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Amici </i>cross a road on the way to the concert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amici </i>at the great gate of Staffolo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amici </i>sound check in the piazza.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matthia Zepponi, the Staffolo band<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">’</span>s excellent first trumpeter, plays a solo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside St. Mark<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">’s basilica in Venice. This is where the antiphonal music of Andrea<br />and Giovanni Gabrieli was first performed. You can see the walkways atop the<br />first-floor arches that ancient musicians used to access positions in the balconies.</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CODA</span></b><br />
In a sense, an experience like this never really ends. I will ponder and reflect on the things I saw and the people I met for many years to come. New friendships will continue. New blooms may grow on this plant which began years ago as a seed in the thought of Mark Lindenbaum. New music is forthcoming that may delight and endure. And so on. I am not the same man who boarded a jet in June to travel to Italy for the first time. I am enriched and blessed. Even the world, if only a little, is a changed and better place.<br />
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This blog post, however, must end. I hope my <i>amici</i>, both <i>Americani</i> and <i>Staffolani</i>, will feel free to respond below and keep in touch.<br />
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<i>Arrivederci!</i>Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-40016373330235687842014-04-24T14:48:00.000-07:002017-11-24T11:38:33.793-08:00"Five Sea Shanties" Kickstarter Project Successful<i>Ahoy! </i>Run up a victory flag!! My "Five Sea Shanties" Kickstarter project was a success. This is the Captain's Log for that campaign. Scroll down for the list of generous supporters!<br />
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In late 2013, I wrote some sea shanty music for the <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-brief-history-of-premiere-brass.html" target="_blank">Premiere Brass Quintet</a> to perform at the Edendale Branch of Los Angeles Public Library as part of a <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2013/09/melville-moby-and-music.html" target="_blank">month-long citywide focus on Herman Melville's novel, <i>Moby Dick.</i></a> Even after the concert, I just couldn't stop adapting traditional sea shanty tunes into classical chamber music works for brass quintet. One shanty led to another until I had a set of five. The original shanty tunes upon which my works are based are <i>The Maid of Amsterdam, Goodbye My Love Goodbye, Clear the Track and Let the Bulgine Run, Shenandoah, </i>and <i>Blow the Man Down. [</i>These shanties are now published by Premiere Press for brass quintet under the title, <i><a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">Five Sea Shanties</a></i>.]</div>
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Only after my work was mostly finished did I learn that the British composer Malcolm Arnold (1921-2008) composed his youthful <i>Three Shanties for Wind Quintet</i> (Op. 4) exactly sixty years before. It's nice to be in such company, especially since Arnold was a trumpet player, too. Perhaps I'll adapt my five shanties for woodwind quintet someday. Arnold's three movements are based on <i>What Should We Do With A Drunken Sailor, Boney Was A Warrior, </i>and <i>Johnny Come Down to Hilo.</i></div>
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<b>An Unusual Idea</b></div>
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Knowing my five shanties would make a great publication, I cast about with friends to find if someone might want to commission the music after the fact. It was an unusual idea, but I was sure someone would have commissioned the music, if only they had thought of it. Then in 2014, not yet having found a commissioning party, it occurred to me to bring <i>Five Sea Shanties</i> to publication as a Kickstarter project. [<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet" target="_blank">My Five Sea Shanties Kickstarter page</a>] </div>
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Commissioning music is great thing to do, with a long, important, and glorious history. If YOU want to commission a composition from me, I would love to hear from you. Please write: ray@raymondburkhart.com.</div>
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I developed the project over a couple of weeks in early March and launched on March 13, with an end date of April 7. Almost immediately, I was contacted by Althea Kifer, a long-time family friend, who wanted to commission the piece. Other pledges ranged from $5 to more than 100 times that amount. Most, but not all, of the supporters are acquaintances of mine. At the KS deadline, the goal had been well surpassed, especially since some supporters preferred not to put charge card info online (something I had not anticipated) and snail-mailed me their support instead. </div>
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Additional support is still coming in. If you want to support the project at this time, please visit <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet" target="_blank">my Kickstarter page</a> to read about the project, then contact me privately (ray@raymondburkhart.com).</div>
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To find out even more about the Kickstarter project, I recommend you visit my <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet" target="_blank"><i>Five Sea Shanties</i> KS page</a> and my <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2014/03/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet.html" target="_blank">introductory blog on the project</a>. You'll find many more details, sound clips, a brief video by me, and even samples from the score and parts. </div>
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Althea Kifer, who commissioned the music, and my mother were both raised in Eagle Rock, a district of the City of Los Angeles. They attended the same schools, but were not in the same class, and they eventually cemented a lifelong friendship as fellow students at UCLA. Their friendship continued, even flourished, after each married and as their teaching careers progressed. Althea and her husband Jack had business to attend to each year near the small Northern California town of Red Bluff, where my family lived after 1968, and annual visits from the Kifers were highly anticipated in our family. I have many fond memories of their visits. Jack and Althea were also world travelers; Althea still is. They never failed to send our family a postcard every summer from some faraway locale, and these communiques helped to stir my interest in the world and travel. In time, I became a stamp collector, and the postcards took on even greater meaning. When I composed <i>Italian Postcards</i>, the title and concept of the piece arose out of these memories, as if the piece were based on three picture postcards from three popular Italian tourist destinations. [<a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2013/04/postcards.html" target="_blank">See blog</a>.] I dedicated <i>Italian Postcards</i> to Jack and Althea. And now, I thank Althea deeply for commissioning <i>Five Sea Shanties</i>, which I think will become as popular as <i>Italian Postcards</i>.</div>
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I have dedicated <i>Five Sea Shanties</i> to my friend, David Newbern, who is a long time legal eagle in the state of Arkansas (including former Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas); a strong proponent of folk music and an outstanding folk musician and recording artist (voice, mandolin, guitar, and banjo); and an avid and able amateur tuba player. It is through his tuba playing that we met and became friends at the <a href="http://www.humboldt.edu/brass/" target="_blank">Humboldt State University Brass Chamber Music Workshop</a> many years ago, and for his friendship I am most grateful. If you know David, if you have any interest at all in folk music, or if you're just have an inquisitive nature, I recommend you read <a href="http://web.lyon.edu/groups/mslibrary/rcol/newbern.htm" target="_blank">Brooks Blevins' interview of David as part of the oral history project on the creation and development of the Arkansas Folk Festival and Ozark Folk Center</a>.</div>
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I am deeply grateful to every one of this project's supporters for their generosity. Since each bit of support represents a kindness that is unquantifiable in dollars, I have listed the supporters alphabetically. If your name has been left off or requires correction in any way, please let me know. And if your support arrives after this blog is published, I can easily add you to it!</div>
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<i>I offer my sincerest thanks to these kind supporters:</i></div>
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Richard Ashmore, Douglas R. Barnett, Philip Beard, Wayne Bennett, William Bing, Diane and Bob Boisvert, Heather Frederick Brown, Bill Bunyan, Patti Brugman, Noel Collins, Robin Collins, David Cornell, Chris Cox, Annette Dutenhoffer, Chelsea Dutenhoffer, Terry Farmer, Harry Fix, Gregory Franklin, Dale Frazier, Noah Gladstone, Frederick Greene, Honor and Walter Haase, Randall Jones, Althea King Kifer, Stephen Klein, John Klinedinst, Karolyn Labes, Audrey Lamprey, Geoff and Lisa Marshall, Jim McGlynn, John Monroe, Suzette Moriarty, Kristin Morrison, Tyler Morse, David Nicholson, Anthony Noble, Annabelle Nye, Stephanie O'Keefe, Emilie Pallos, Jay Perry, Clint Phillips, Chris Popperwell, Richard L. Rapp, Ridgecrest Brass Ensemble, Jayne Sawyer, Chuck Schroeder, Grace Sheldon-Williams, Kathy Silbiger, Harry Smallenburg, Lynne Snyder, Robb Stewart, Nancy Stone, Larry Tallant, Brian Taylor, John R Taylor, Fred Tempas, Jim Tidwell, Gary Tirey, the Thiel Family, Carolyn Tiernan, Jim Walker, John J. Walsh IV, the Wiegand family, Sheila M. Upham, and Adriana Zoppo.</div>
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Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-42391753811047639152014-03-13T13:58:00.000-07:002017-11-24T11:36:47.411-08:00"Five Sea Shanties" for Brass Quintet – Please Support My New Kickstarter ProjectI've created a Kickstarter project to help launch my newest piece of music –<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span>"Five Sea Shanties" for brass quintet – into publication! If you're not familiar with Kickstarter, it's like having a PBS pledge drive. There are varying levels of support, and each successive level brings donors additional rewards. The deadline to reach my pledge goal is April 7, around 1pm Pacific time. To read about the music, find the rewards, see an introductory video by <i>moi,</i> and make a pledge, go here: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet</a> <br />
And please spread the word to your friends! <br />
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Other rewards include autographed copies of the music, a meeting with me,<br />
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One of the project rewards was to commission the music. That reward has been claimed! I'm also seeking someone to receive the dedication. Yes, you can pledge to receive the right to designate to whom "Five Sea Shanties" is dedicated. The dedication appears next to the title of the music on both score and parts. It could read, "For Insert Your Name Here," or you could have it say, "Dedicated to the So-And-So Family," or you could nominate your parents, or kids, or a even a pet. I once dedicated a piece to a horse, so you would not be the first in that regard! You could even memorialize someone – "In memoriam Dearly Beloved." It's up to you. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet" target="_blank">[Go to project]</a><br />
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There are several other rewards, too, including receiving an autographed copy of the sheet music and getting a private meeting with me. Most of the rewards include all the previous rewards in the ascending levels of pledging. Many donors will receive a handsome "Five Sea Shanties" refrigerator magnet and a personal thank-you note from me. All donors will be recognized in my blog.<br />
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Just a few more details here. The five sea shanties are "The Maid of Amsterdam," "Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye," "Clear the Track and Let the Bulgine Run," "Shenandoah," and "Blow the Man Down." I've included descriptions of the music (and sound clips) at the Kickstarter page. Go there to hear most of each movement and find out what the word "bulgine" means! <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815997771/five-sea-shanties-for-brass-quintet" target="_blank">[Go to project]</a><br />
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Lastly, please spread the word. Tell your friends, and ask them to tell their friends! There are lots of people who will love this
project, want to support it, and who will enjoy the rewards. But, they have
to learn of it first. Be the one to let them know, by social media,
email, text, IM, blog, phone, fax, semaphore, smoke signals, or even in
person – if anyone communicates that way anymore. It's all good. And
remember, a great many arts donors are not musicians! So, be sure to
share this with your musician friends and with committed concert-goers
and arts patrons, as well.<br />
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Much appreciated,<br />
Dr. Ray Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-3824649444473781112014-02-06T13:05:00.001-08:002017-11-24T11:26:24.530-08:00College of the Canyons Symphonic Band: Spring 2014!It's time once again to enroll for the wonderful Symphonic Band at College of the Canyons. I'll use this blog entry as a resource for the band for this semester, so check back for new information added at the bottom. We also have a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CollegeOfTheCanyonsSymphonicBand?ref=hl" target="_blank">College of the Canyons Symphonic Band Facebook page</a> you can read and follow.<br />
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Our theme for Spring is "Around the World in 80 Minutes: A Celebration of International Band Music." We'll also continue our fruitful relationship with <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2013/10/william-roper-and-college-of-canyons.html" target="_blank">composer/tubist William Roper, our Artist-in-Residence for 2013-2014.</a><br />
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The Spring term begins on February 10, 2014, and since that is a Monday,
it's also the first class meeting/rehearsal. 6pm to 10pm on Monday
nights, except for holidays. Generally, the woodwind/harmonie ensemble meets from 6-7pm, the full band from 7-9pm, and the brass ensemble from 9-10pm.<br />
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College of the Canyons, a part of the
California Community College system, is located in Santa Clarita
(Valencia), just north of CalArts, a short distance north of the
intersection of Interstate 5 and Highway 14. The Music Building – Pico
Canyon Hall – is fairly new and is well suited for band rehearsals. We
meet in room 202 (PCOH 202). Our May 19 concert will once again be given in the
wonderful acoustic of the lobby of the COC University Center.<br />
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Given COC's proximity to Los Angeles and Hollywood, a great many
world-class musicians live nearby and are friends of mine. COC Symphonic
Band members have already enjoyed visits from, and have performed along
side, outstanding concert and recording musicians and composers. I also
encourage students who are well prepared to solo with the band to
audition to solo. Student composers, too, who play in the band might be
able to have their works performed. The COC Symphonic Band experience is
a rich one.<br />
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If you have any questions, please enter them below, or email me at ray@raymondburkhart.com. Thanks.<br />
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Dr. RayDr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-88082753456827048112014-01-10T11:56:00.000-08:002017-11-24T11:24:40.873-08:00"Watercolor Menagerie" – Its First Decade, Part One: GratitudeI remember it like it was yesterday. Ten years ago – almost to the day – I awoke one morning and my first thought was, "I need to make a CD." Five months later, boxes of "<a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/recordings.php" target="_blank">Watercolor Menagerie</a>" CDs arrived on my doorstep.<br />
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Now – ten years after the release of "Watercolor Menagerie" – it is still widely enjoyed, still sells, and <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/brass-5.php" target="_blank">the compositions on the recording</a> are still played by brass quintets in the
US and internationally. Increasingly so. I have seen this music move
audiences to laughter and other audiences to tears. Douglas Wilson wrote
of "Watercolor Menagerie" in the Journal of the International Trumpet
Guild, "<i>The
music is well crafted, programmatic, and contemporary and has a flavor
of Hollywood. Of note is Burkhart's fine work on the piccolo trumpet.</i>" It's time to celebrate the CD's ten-year record of success: first, with gratitude.<br />
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But, before I go further, yes, you too can get "Watercolor Menagerie" at my <a href="http://raymondburkhart.com/recordings.php" target="_blank">website</a> and from <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/raymond-david-burkhart/id465789661" target="_blank">iTunes</a> and <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/Search/UmF5bW9uZCBCdXJraGFydA==/0" target="_blank">CD Baby</a>. I'm sure you'll like it!<br />
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First, I thank all of you who purchased the music on CD and online, especially the many of you who have sent notes telling me what the music means to you. The compositions and the CD were labors of love, and your kind notes always touch me deeply. You can easily reach me at ray@raymondburkhart.com.<br />
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Second, many thanks to the many brass quintets that continue to program the pieces on this CD (and my many newer compositions and arrangements for brass quintet that are not yet recorded). I now have enough new works for a second CD, and the commissions continue to come. The business world has its "angels," and the modern music world would greatly benefit from a similar practice. In the arts, it's actually an ancient tradition called patronage. If you're a fan-"angel," or want to be, don't remain a stranger! <br />
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Third, I offer my deep gratitude to the marvelous musicians who played on the recording: trumpeter Kevin Brown, hornist Steve Durnin, trombonist Loren
Marsteller, and tubists Norm Pearson and Fred Greene. (More about the
two tubists later.) Your talents enhanced "Watercolor Menagerie" greatly.<br />
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Many who play music or sports, or participate in group projects, know how fulfilling it is to work (or play) with great masters. When those great masters are dear friends, it's even more special. My colleagues on this recording are indeed both musical masters and dear friends. All have for many years been highly sought-after musicians in the competitive and world-class freelance market that defines Southern California concert halls and the "Hollywood" recording studios. You don't need to know about that to enjoy the CD – the music speaks for itself – but, the more you know about brass playing, the more you will appreciate what these wonderful musicians achieved on this recording.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Premiere Brass Quintet, recording "Watercolor Menagerie": (L-R) <br />
Raymond Burkhart, Loren Marsteller, Norm Pearson, Steve Durnin, Kevin Brown.</td></tr>
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If you have the chance to make music with a great musician for most of your life, do it. I have. I first met Kevin Brown at Claude Gordon's first summer music camp. I was still in high school, and Kevin had just graduated. After college, we met again and started working together in Los Angeles. His playing and good nature are as easygoing as it gets, and nearly every major professional ensemble in the Los Angeles area has been blessed by his great musicianship and good cheer, from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra right on down the list. We have collaborated countless times. Lots of music, lots of laughs.<br />
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Steve Durnin has a significant career in the recording studios and orchestras of Los Angeles and Hollywood. In my early days freelancing, some players just stood out as wonderful people, in addition to being wonderful players. That's Steve. He plays the horn effortlessly, with a sharpshooter's accuracy, and he shifts into a variety of non-classical styles on a dime. He can also move a refrigerator with aplomb. (That's not on any audition lists, but it does quickly cement a friendship.) He is also extraordinarily knowledgeable on seemingly endless topics (I think he has a photographic memory), and I learned to fly-fish under his patient tutelage.<br />
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I also first met Loren Marsteller long ago, when he was preparing to be a guest soloist with the Caltech Concert band, conducted by my teacher, the great trumpeter and pedagogue, William Bing. As we were introduced, Bill said in almost hushed tones, "Loren was euphonium soloist with the President's Own Marine Band." I was in awe of that then, and I still am! But, Loren's really a jolly, cherub-like, fun-loving Santa lookalike, with a sincere humility rarely found in someone with a world-class reputation. I've learned a lot about music from working with him.<br />
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Norm Pearson, of course, has been the tubist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for decades! In fact, Norm and I were housemates when he won that job, and I recall listening to him practice his excerpts for hours and hours. And hours. Day and night. He, too, is just as nice a guy as you'll ever find. We freelanced together many times in brass quintets and brass ensembles in those early days, when we were students together at the University of Southern California.<br />
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But, as long as I've known all those guys, it's Fred Greene that I've known the longest. I first met Fred when we both attended Lincoln Street Elementary School in Red Bluff, California. Fred was one year ahead of me, and he played trumpet. I recall knowing even then that he was a good musician. Later, we played in the Bidwell Middle School band as he transitioned to baritone, and by the time I got to Red Bluff Union High School, Fred was playing sousaphone, because the band had no tuba. After he earned a spot in California's All State Honor Band in only his sophomore year, the school quickly found the funds for a real tuba, and the investment was one of the best they ever made. Fred has always played with an unusually high musical authority and sensibility. He would have been a great master on any instrument, such is his innate musicianship.<br />
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You may ask, Why are there two tubists on my CD? Simple. Our recording location was only available for a few days, and we couldn't accommodate everyone's schedule. Norm had conflicts with the LA Phil, and Fred had conflicts with recording dates. So, I used them both. What an embarrassment of riches!<br />
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You can read my <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-new-year-guide-to-my-cd-menagerie.html" target="_blank">"New Year's Guide to Watercolor Menagerie"</a> and <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-brief-history-of-premiere-brass.html" target="_blank">A Brief History of the Premiere Brass Quintet</a> elsewhere in this blog. I expect soon to write Part Two of this "Watercolor Menagerie" retrospective: "The Music." In the meantime, give "Watercolor Menagerie" a fresh hearing or a first hearing. You'll be glad you did.Dr. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05646900265684963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504347446692489100.post-60011882693318196382013-10-07T12:12:00.000-07:002017-11-24T11:20:22.190-08:00William Roper and the College of the Canyons Symphonic BandWilliam Roper, a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, will be Artist-in-Residence for the College of the Canyons Symphonic Band for the academic year 2013-2014. Roper is active in the fields of composition, music performance (especially on tuba), theater, dance, painting, and performance art. He will compose new works for tuba and winds to be performed by the COC Symphonic Band.<br />
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On tuba, Roper's professional experience ranges from the symphony stage to
free improvisation groups. He has toured North and South America and
Europe as a soloist and as a member of jazz, rock, and classical ensembles.
His has released several recordings as a leader and co-leader. He has
played or recorded with numerous artists and ensembles, including the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Elton John, Leon
Russell, Jusef Lateef, James Newton, and Horace Tapscott. He has also played on several major motion picture
soundtracks.<br />
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As a composer he has fulfilled commissions for the Gloria Newman Dance Theater, Dance L.A., and SASSAS. His compositions have been performed in the US and Europe. He has received awards from organizations such as the National Endowment of the Arts, California Arts Council, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, Durfee Foundation, Brody Arts Fund, and others. He has been a resident composer at the Djerassi Institute in California and the Oberfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus in Bavaria and recently fulfilled a cultural ambassadorship to Japan. <br />
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I have blogged about Roper before, because I find him to be an unusually interesting person and musician. <a href="http://raymondburkhartphd.blogspot.com/2012/06/roper-remembers.html" target="_blank">You can read that blog here</a>. Visit Roper's Web site <a href="http://roperarts.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It is an important part of my plan to grow the COC Symphonic Band and its audience to invite eminent musicians like Roper to visit COC and work with the music students. A great deal can be learned from great musicians, and the greater Santa Clarita Valley area (including its many neighbors to the south) has many great musicians in its midst. The music world is smaller that it seems, and Roper's visits with the COC Symphonic Band will provide opportunities for much more than learning. Lifelong relationships sometimes come of such experiences.<br />
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Concerts by the COC Symphonic Band which will feature Roper and his works will be given on Monday, December 2, 2013 and Monday, May 19, 2014 in COC's Van Hook University Center. Both concerts begin at 8pm and are free to the public. Our December concert will feature "Four Centuries of Music for Band," while the May concert will take a more geographical look at band music in "Around the World in 80 Minutes."<br />
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