Everyone knows what a trumpet sounds like - except that they don't. During Saturday's engrossing concert by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Italian trumpeter Gabriele Cassone introduced most ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AS MUSICAL tastes were changing and baroque trumpets were falling out of favour with composers around the late 18th century, a ''miracle ...
THE keyed trumpet is an instrument whose time in the limelight was fleeting. Yet it had a revolutionary impact in the late 18th century. However, the development of the modern valved trumpet in the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE keyed trumpet is one of those transitionary pieces of technology, like Betamax and blimps, bridging a gap from the baroque trumpet ...
La Follia performs the greatest masterworks of Mozart and Haydn, using instruments and performance practices like those used during the composers' lifetimes. The concert features a trio of Austin ...
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None of us alive now — or for the past two hundred years, actually — remembers when the trumpet was not able to play a melody. As loud, commanding and often shrill as it was; prior to 1800, the sleek ...