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Old 04-05-2006, 04:22 AM   #7 (permalink)
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When Gunther Schuller was conducting us in Spokaane his take was that Beethoven knew what the unison d's would sound like and so used them, without a rest for the second trumpet. Other composers learned their stuff from Beethoven. Play the ink until told otherwise.
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