George Vosburgh Brass Chat is Live! And coupon...

[Monster Oil]

Brass Chats is back. We are very sorry to have broken our streak of 35(?) months in a row. But we are back with a vengeance. No, that sounds awfully violent - back with a lot of questions in the hopes that we might improve as trumpet players? Yeah, something like that.

And then there was George. Yes, George Vosburgh...I never thought the stories I heard my whole life could possibly be true, but now I believe every one of them. George is a very intense man who readily admits to being extreme about damn near anything. This is a man who admits to wearing ankle weights around his wrists when he practiced so that when he performed everything felt light.

And a man who speaks frankly about why he left the Pittsburgh Symphony.

And a man who isn't afraid to tell you he was the hottest thing on Long Island when he was 13.

And a man who was playing trumpet 12 hours a day for over a decade while with the Chicago Symphony.

Subtlety - sorry you won't find that here.

Head over to www.brasschats.com and give it a go. It's a long one - editing was very difficult because there is so much interesting and relevant content. So we decided to leave just about everything.

Also head over to www.monsteroil.net and enter coupon code 'ILOVEGEORGE' for 20% off your order. This is the largest coupon we've had almost ever, and we plan on only doing smaller coupons at least for the near future. It expires at the end of the month.

Hope you enjoy this one - we have already filmed every episode for 2018, so stay tuned!

Much love,

Monsters
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[tubbs831]

I'm almost through this now. Amazing interview!

[Vin DiBona]

I'm sure some Yamaha players would disagree with his assessment of their trumpets.
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[Geodude]

Interesting interview! Thanks to the Monsters for continuing to do these. please keep 'em coming!

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[aTrumpetdude]

That was really great, thanks!
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[OldKing]

I got a lot out of it. Thank you very much for doing these interviews.
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[mhenrikse]

Interesting question about the all-time greatest quintet. I would choose: Smedvig, Nakariakov, Clevenger, Alessi, Roger Bobo.

[MPWall1]

I really enjoyed that! Awesome job.

So many interesting stories...now I'll watch it again.

Where did you shoot that interview?

Thanks for doing these.

All the best,
Michael
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[GeorgeB]

Excellent interview. Vosburgh is really interesting, but I tell you, I came away from watching that interview with the feeling that I don't have enough talent to even shine his Bach, and I am way too old to be inspired enough to try to do anything about it... LOL.
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[Turkle]

This was awesome, thanks to the Monster Oil team for making it happen, and of course George Vosburgh for sharing his time and insights.

I love this series and I've learned something valuable from every one of them.

I found particularly inspiring his description of sitting next to Bud and having the sound just soar over the whole orchestra... And after assuming Principal Trumpet duties at Pittsburgh, it took him a year to find that in his own Tessitura range...

Great stuff folks, thanks.
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[dstdenis]

Great interview. I loved hearing those stories and learning how a top pro does it. Thanks to Mr. Vosburgh for sharing his thoughts and to the Monsters for arranging this.
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[CJceltics33]

Has anyone tried and had success with his concept of endurance ?

[LaTrompeta]

Learned some good new things. I agree with his evaluation of Bach vs. et. al. I really dig the way Bach trumpets (and those who play them) sound.
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[RandyTX]

I really was hoping to hear that story about the trumpet parts near the end of the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra that he said "remind me to tell you later" about earlier in the interview. Maybe if there is a part 2 we'll find out.

Fair to say Yamaha will not like this video getting around.
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[TimbersArmy]

Here's the story: "Roger Voisin, long-time principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was in his prime when Bartók wrote his Concerto. During a rehearsal of the work, Bartók decided to re-orchestrate a disjunct and thorny excerpt in the fifth movement for trumpet, after Voisin accidentally played cues that were originally written for clarinet." (From "Collective Virtuosity in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra" by Michael Mauskapf)

And thus an excerpt was born...thanks, Rog

[RandyTX]