ecarroll

Hello again TrumpetMasters and Mistresses,

I'm slowly learning who many of you are and am always curious to know what sort of stuff my friends listen to (I know that being trumpeters and not trombonists that you actually listen to music).

What music feeds your soul and inspires you? What music triggers your imagination or gives you peace? Is it trumpet music (the geek line forms on the right)? Music with easily discernible form? Music with a particular message? Music that you can't sit still to? Complex music? Improvised music?

Imagine that you're loading your iPod for an extended and solitary stay on a desert island. You anticipate being absolutely alone for weeks, even months. You will have everything essential to life available to you there -- food, shelter, books -- but your aural life will be limited to music that you yourself will pack and sounds that occur in the natural world. No Man Friday will appear.

Please tell me what you will bring and why? (note that it should withstand repeated listening)

Off-the-cuff examples from the EC library might include:

Sergei Rachmaninov: Vespers, op.37 (Shaw/Telarc)
What sounds better than the human voice? Many human voices.

Richard Wagner: Parsifal (Levine/DG)
Can there be a more perfect marriage of (MET) orchestra, singers, and recording technique? Fabulous live and equally so on disc.

Igor Stravinsky: Petrouska (Dutoit/Decca)
Stravinsky pounding my inner drum and Jim Thompson thrilling my inner geek (yes, I have one too).

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (Gergiev/Philips)
Each of us has a score that follows us everywhere and this is mine. Music born at the Kirov and performers from the same.

J.S. Bach: Art of Fugue (Emerson 4tet/DG)
A meeting of masterful form/good friends that always makes me smile.

In a Silent Way (Miles Davis/Columbia)
I feel so much cooler after every listening. How often can we say that?

Have a go? I look forward to your contributions.

EC