jwtptboy

Do we get a preview?

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EC[/quote]

It's in the hands of the editorial staff at the ITG Journal as we speak... I think, out of fairness to them, I shouldn't post the article draft here! SO, no preview, BUT you (Ed) and this website and its members do get a word of gratitude both now and in the article itself...

When I finished the article and sent it off, I thought to myself, "How incomplete and inadequate this is, considering the subject at hand!" Hopefully, once it comes out, there will be another thread of conversation, perhaps entitled: "How did Jeff Work miss this piece? Boy, what a moron!"

If I'm lucky, it will be a little more civil than that!

Cheers everyone,

Jeff Work

ecarroll

Jeff,

Thank you for the above.

I've always hoped that TM could turn into a trumpet resource center and I'm sure that all that contributed are delighted to have helped you in some small way. Please let us know when the piece is published? I'll look forward to seeing it then...

Best,
EC

jwtptboy

Ed,

The article should be published in the next journal (not the one currently arriving) if I'm not mistaken. I hope people find it to be a useful, if incomplete, starting point!

~Jeff Work

Hags888

I know this is "after the fact", but has anyone heard or played Hummel's "Military Septet"? I've known about the piece, but haven't had an opportunity to play it, or hear it for that matter. Is it any good?

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jwtptboy

Hi,

I heard the Hummel once and was a bit under-whelmed... But, I went ahead and included it in my article, just so people would know it was out there. The trumpet part is not a chromatic part like the concerto. I'm sure someone has recorded it at some point, but I've no idea who!

Sorry I can't give you any more detail than that...

~JW

wiseone2

The Hummel is not a fun piece to play or listen to. We read through it at the Marlboro festival, it put us to sleep. The instrumentation is the same as the St. Saens Septet. The trumpet part is in Eb. It is forgettable.
Wilmer

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ilikethetrumpet

I'm actually doing a trumpet/mixed chamber recital in April here in Iowa City, focusing on pieces from the 1930s-40s. Maybe a few have been mentioned before but I'll mention them:

Sonata da Chiesa, Virgil Thomson: D Trumpet (Thomson is quite adamant about that in the score!), Viola, Horn, Eb Clarinet, Trombone--I picked this upon Wilmer's suggestion in an earlier thread (thanks much), and it really fits the bill and sounds like a million bucks in a large hall.
The Webern Concerto for Nine instruments
I'm also doing the Barber Capricorn Concerto and the Hindemith Concerto for Bassoon and trumpet--these are maybe iffy as "chamber music" since they're orchestrally concieved, but there it is.

OH! And yesterday I "discovered" an excited piece of music that Hardenberger premiered (or rather, revived) a few years ago and it fits what you're looking for, unless you've already submitted your article.

Concertino for Trumpet and Seven Winds by Karl Amadeus Hartmann. I played through the solo part yesterday, and it was a great, jazzy, contrapuntal joint from the late 1940s. I heard a little bit of Hartmann last summer or the summer before that at Ravinia--James Conlon had or has a series revisiting composers who shoved out of the mainstream because of the holocaust. It's published by Schott in a piano reduction, and hacking through that, it sounds like a kind of cross between Kurt Weill and Stravinsky.

If I can remember correctly, the original instrumentation calls for Bassoon and Contrabassoon, clarinet and bass clarinet, horn, trombone, and... a seventh instrument I can't remember. The parts are available for hire from Schott--if I had the means I'd definitely pick them up.

trumpetnick

Guys,

I have been surfing for quite a while to find where to buy the Vackar: Concerto (trumpet, percussion, piano, double bass) but so far I did not get nothing on the net. If anyone knows where to get that please tell me

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ecarroll

Nick,

In spite of finding other pieces of Vackar for sale I've never found the trumpet concerto listed. It's either manuscript or rental--probably the latter. John Wallace has a tattered old set of parts that he used for his (wonderful) recording. . . perhaps from the composer himself?

Sorry not to be able to help.

Best,
EC

jwtptboy

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know... The ITG made a mistake telling me the chamber music article would be published in the current (Mar. 2007) journal. I'm now told it will be in the year's final issue. Thanks again for all the help!

And, stay tuned...

~Jeff Work