trumpettrax

Do you remember your first trumpet recital? How long was it? What did you play?

My teacher is telling me that I'm ready to do my first recital (remember, I'm a comeback player) and need to start thinking about what I want to play. One of the pieces I would really like to do (I don't know why except I like it) it the Trumpeter's Lullabye. I don't think my teacher was impressed, but I may be wrong. He said it was kind of easy. I'm thinking he is wanting me to challenge myself a little more.

Any suggestions as to how to find a piece to play?

Thanks, as usual, for your time,

Trax

tpter1

My first recital was a 10 minute as a sophmore. I did 2 movements of the Kennan Sonata (2 and 1, in that order). I had a cheap stone-lined cup mute that I used at the beginning of the 2nd movement...it fell out during the performance. (Baaah da da da da da da da da da da waaah clunk!)

tpetplyr

Try Broughton's Oliver's Birthday. Fair number of flats and some funny key signatures. It's not easy, but it's not crazy. Another suggestion would be Goedicke's Concert Etude. If you could give some examples of other pieces you've played, it would be helpful too.

Stuart

ecarroll

Trax,

Choose a program that you have total command of/are stimulated by and make sure that it's one that you can truly commit to.

Never fall into the "one from column A and two from column B" trap and never play what others (even your teacher) suggest that you play. It's your show and nobody elses.

What a special time...good luck!
EC

Billy B

I don't believe in the idea that recital material should take you to the edge of your abilities. I would select pieces that require about 80% of your present abilities. You probably won't play as well as you possibly can so you need a buffer zone. Save the very difficult pieces for the practice room and once those become easy select pieces for performance that are one notch below.

cornetguy

you know there is nothing wrong with doing an easy piece, well.

jultone

I ended up doing way too much for my first recital: Brandt "Concertpiece #2", Copland "Quiet City", Bozza "Caprice", Hindemith "Sonata", and Clarke "From The Shores of the Mighty Pacific". I made it through, but the Clarke(last piece I played) ended up not being real pretty, if you know what I mean. I guess I am trying to give you a bit of advice to try not to do too much for that first recital. This goes along the same lines as Billy.

Might I suggest the 1st and/or second mvts from the Haydn or Hummel. You could also look at doing some etudes(Charlier, Vannetelbosch, etc). A tuba friend of mine played something from the Rochut book for his recital and it sounded fine.

Good luck with whatever you choose and have fun with it. Recitals can be very rewarding experiences, if you let them.