| Re: Trumpet Pedagogy
Matthew,
I'll bet the percentage of great players has not gone up in spite of the "improvements". The reason is that the percentage of TRUE TALENT WITH DRIVE has not gone up.
I am not even sure that the pros of today are "better" than their predecessors. In our information age, there may be more played material hitting the streets. That just means more exposure to the current generation. Ghitalla, Vacchiano, Adelstein and Herseth are tough acts to follow, like Clarke, Glanz and Schlossberg before them. No cut on the EXCELLENT or EXCEPTIONAL players presently on the circuit.
The advent of ever more resonant, smaller trumpets has taken a bit of the danger (and arguably, sound and challenge) out of symphonic playing.
The jazz world is humming along like in the past.
Maybe we have a greater "middle class" in trumpet playing than ever before. That could be considered an improvement too. |