| I've watched this topic with some interest since in recent months I've been questioning our repertoire. Which I think is a little unfair. I mean the trumpet we know and love today is only a little more then a hundred years old. The Haydn and Hummel concertos, though written in the late 1700s, were not discovered and performed till the 1950s or so. These pieces in itself are recent discoveries. Okay,sorry for going off on a tangent.
I just feel to really see a surge of large compositions for trumpet we might have to wait. Hakan Hardenberger, John Wallace, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Tom Stevens, and etc. This is the bar that was set in the past twenty years and then it will be raised again. Maybe in 15-20 years college students will be playing Turnage, Birtwistle, and Berio on a regular basis. Who truly knows?
As an afterthought I remember Tom Stevens saying after hearing a recent high school graduate play parts of the Berio Sequenza in a masterclass, which he did very very well, that when the piece was written that he hoped that he would see a high school student tackling and performing a piece like that. I hope I quoted Mr. Stevens appropriately on that. But I do believe that's what he said and I agree with it.
CG |