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Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you’ve seen Episode 49, you’ll know what this is all about. Today, Colin came to “the lair” and we did a drawing for the upcoming “Viewer’s Choice Recital”. It was one of the most suspenseful and stressful moments of my life:-)

Wait until you see how it all played out…………..enjoy!

I talk about a review of Colin playing the Creston a few years ago with the Atlanta Symphony. Here’s the review:

“Review: ASO plays Creston on trombone By Pierre Ruhe | Friday, October 1, 2004 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CONCERT REVIEW Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

…..This week, the ASO helped revive a worthy composer from irrelevancy. Paul Creston (1906-1985) didn’t live to see a concert-hall revival of his music, but nowadays you can hear all his important works on CD and, increasingly, experience them live.

Creston’s music is “an embodiment of the affirmative, lyrical, melodic strain that dominated American music in the 1930s and for a time afterward,” wrote critic-conductor Will Crutchfield in an obituary. Creston rightly joins the company of Copland, Piston and Barber.

Creston’s 1947 Fantasy for Trombone, one of his best-known works, served to introduce the ASO’s principal trombonist, Colin Williams, who joined the orchestra three years ago and is now making his official solo debut.

In the jazzy Fantasy, Williams was heard, finally, to his advantage. In the treacherous Symphony Hall acoustic, the orchestral trombones’ warm bass notes get absorbed by the stage walls and the bright high notes get polarized to a blinding glare, like sunlight off a swimming pool. At stage front, we heard Williams au natural: his clean, “white” tone, with very little vibrato and exceptionally pure and lovely soft notes.

And for the ASO, with their committed playing this week and last, they showed that it’s likely the romantic vs. modernist argument will seem quaint in another generation. This would follow the Wagner (progressive) vs. Brahms (retro) debates, which eventually subsided, leaving both men on the winning side. What survives isn’t ideology, it’s good art. As an encore, Williams and the orchestra played “The Blue Bells of Scotland,” an amusing and sentimental work by Arthur Pryor, the trombonist in John Philip Sousa’s band a century ago. Where the Creston was unfailingly polite, Pryor asks the soloist to scale heights, blow elephant calls and raspberries, all accompanied by oom-pah-pahs from the orchestra. Williams breezed through the moto perpetuo variations with mostly machine-drilled aplomb.”

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GYSO is the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra. It is the youth-affiliate of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra. It consists of a number of musical ensembles: 2 full orchestras, woodwind chamber groups, percussion ensemble, and…….a REAL Brass Band (directed by yours truly and employing the British-style instrumentation with cornets, E-flat horns, baritones, euphoniums, trombones, E-flat and B-flat tubas, plus percussion).

The GYSO Brass Band is open, by audition, to any players aged 21-under. We have featured the brass band in earlier Episodes of the podcasts, including a performance with Chris Martin (Episode 29) and a 3-part series about a newly commissioned work by Jen Mitchell.

Here is a video I helped put together about the GYSO program. If you are a young musician in the area, you should really consider checking out what GYSO has to offer. For more info, see their website: www.georgiayouthsymphony.org

If you want info specifically about the Brass Band, please contact me directly at: tom@trombonelessons.com

Thanks, all!

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Colin and I would very much like to present for you a “Viewer’s Choice” recital. It’s a good project to keep us highly motivated and a good chance for all of us to hear something new, or rare, or common, or whatever.

Please send your requests to:

tom@trombonelessons.com

Students, this might be a good chance to hear a piece you’re working on? Composers, we would really enjoy playing your works. If you have the urge to write a duet for me and Colin, we couldn’t thank you enough for doing so. We pledge to give to your notes everything we’ve got. If you’ve written a solo piece and it gets enough votes, we’ll do that!!

Thanks for joining the fun by sending a request.

Thanks, too, for the support and encouragement you send our way. We are glad that so many of you were touched by our tribute to Milt. It was a very sad day, but Milt’s spirit was wonderfully present with every phrase…..so music became the focus.

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A “Viewer Appreciation” episode in which I try to convey my gratitude to all of you. The success of these Podcasts has already exceeded my wildest expectations and we have MUCH more in store. So……thanks.

Please don’t forget to visit the companion page to these Podcasts:

www.trombonelessons.com/trombonepodcasts.html

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Potentially big news coming in the next few weeks!

Oh, man…….I forgot to say hello in this episode to Ron in California. HELLO RON!!!!!!

Another reminder to please check out Episode 38 if you have not. Thanks.

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