ecarroll

TMers,

Since the other thread has gone cold, I'd like to ask what pieces you feel you have a realistic
chance of adding to your repertoire, why you like them, and what you plan to do about it?

Watching with interest from sunny LA,
EC

bagmangood

Well, I'm adding Purcell sonata no 1 and the Goedicke etude, and I almost have "Let the Bright Seraphim" but that's about all I have claim to

Trevor_D

I would like to add the middle two movements of the Ewazen Trio (I played the first and last on my senior recital in December). I also recently purchased a Yamaha 9360 and would like to take a crack at the Cimarosa! I smile everytime I hear that second movement! I also slugged my way through the first movement of the Halsey Stevens about a year ago. I would like to take a look at the other two movements now that Im older (but not really wiser!). And of course, Hora Staccato... just for grins!!

mahaberio

Hi Ed et al,

Thinking about next year I've been brainstorming some possible pieces to add to my repertoire. I'd really like to do a trumpet/percussion themed recital (though not exclusively that instrumentation) so a lot of my thinking right now is geared toward that.

I recently discovered Robert Erickson's Oceans for trumpet and percussion. Is anyone else familiar with this piece? I get the feeling that it's pretty obscure. It was a big surprise to me after Kryl as it's incredibly beautiful and in a much more minimalist aesthetic. The hardest part of adding the piece to my repertoire at the moment is finding the music. It doesn't seem to be in-print or available anywhere.

One I've been working on and really enjoying is a piece I mentioned in the other thread entitled Laki by Olga Neuwirth. It is a work for solo trumpet that lasts about ten minutes. Neuwirth is quickly becoming an iconic composer of her generation and we are very lucky that she has shown so much interest in the trumpet (she's also written a concerto for Hakan Hardenberger). The piece creates a very complex sound world and I'm really enjoying the challenge of trying to decipher musical meaning from a piece that is in a very new and complex style. I'll keep plugging away at it and hopefully I will be able to play it for you June.

I've also recently developed an interest in the music of André Jolivet, and not just his trumpet music. He is an underrated composer, in my opinion. As I've not yet played any of his trumpet music, I guess it's about time I take a stab at it. I've perused all of his trumpet works but haven't yet decided on a piece to commit to.

-Matthew

JustinSmith

i'm currently working on the Brandenburg 2nd. I was a jazz trumpet player through college who worked awfully hard to keep up with the classical trumpet majors, at Indiana University.

I had played around with the Brandenburg a little while in school, 10 years ago, but never really learned it to a performance level.

These days I am more of a commercial/jazz trumpet player, playing everything and anything that will pay my bills, while working on original creative improvised/jazz on the side.

This summer I am working in Europe on cruise ship. I have been practicing piccolo trumpet everyday working on the Brandenburg.

CGUM

Matthew,

Have you contacted UCSD to track down a copy of that piece? They might have a collection of Erickson's Compositions that could be copied for you.

Jack Logan might be a resource I think he's at San Diego State. Good Luck

CG

rowuk

Petr Eben Okna (Windows) for trumpet and organ. I have this piece twice next year. I've played it twice with a relatively long lead time and started to get into it. Ebens music fascinates me - especially the choral stuff.

This piece describes some stained glass, leaded windows from Marc Chagall in a synagogue in Jerusalem. A musical painting if you will. I have a trip planned and hope to see them and get some additional background info.

Petr died last year, so added info from the composer is not possible.

I'll be posting here when I have had some time to dig in.

My normal method is to "read the score", compare it to other works of the same composer, make notes, references before I ever play a note. Musical lines stick in my head after reading them and I try to figure out why those passages won't let me go. Once I have a good overview, then I go outside and look for additional impulses. In this case, maybe I can find out who originally performed the work in 1976 and get info there.

Better sound through research. Both concerts will have moderation and I will go through the visualizations with the audience. A beamer or projector to show the windows will also be used.

DarkKnight88

I have been working on "Trumpet Sonata" by Kent Kennan. I have the 1st mvt down pretty well now.

Jimi Michiel

Sometime when I get the time, I want to work on the Haydn Concerto. For all the effort I've put into it, I just don't get it. I've played it several times for auditions and competitions, but I could never really get beyond the notes. I always look for the personality and humor that I find in his string quartets and symphonies, but never to any great personal satisfaction. It's an important part of the repertoire--the only concerto we have by a top shelf composer--so eventually I'm going to have to sit down and hammer out some kind of understanding.

-Jimi

Vulgano Brother

Okna is a great piece, but because of the improvisation and freedom of rhythm the difficulty is neither the trumpet part nor the organ part, but the two together. It is amazing when we are able to mindmeld, and the difficulty with is that Okna forces such relationships. In my opinion, the work isn't just describing the windows, but the colored light moving across the floor--different everytime you look at it. Cool stuff, but requiring a team effort.