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Hey Guys,
I took a day off today - probably the first time I haven't worked on Easter in 40 years... My colleagues Jeff Strong and Rob Hovencamp prerecorded the prelude and postlude for an Easter podcast. Happy Easter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipONJttJIY
https://youtu.be/JTBFLAKkzAo
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Wonderful! Thank you for letting me listen!
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Easter Prelude and Postlude at St Edmunds ... thoroughly enjoyed the eight minutes or so of two trumpets plus organ ... great way to introduce and conclude the church service.
St Edmunds? Reminded me of our Sept/Oct 2019 visit to the UK and to Hunstanton on September 28. There is there a memorial to "St Edmund who landed here at Hunstanton in 855, was a member of the Saxon Wuffing dynasty who ruled East Anglia for the previous 300 years.
"His short reign came to an end in 870, after a battle with the Danish Vikings at Thetford. He was subsequently captured at Hoxne in Suffolk and after refusing the Viking's surrender terms, was tied to an oak tree, tortured and used for target practice by the Danish archers, before finally being beheaded.
"To deny St Edmund a Christian burial the Vikings hid his head in another wood. His body was later found, but his supporters were unable to find his head. ...
The story/legend continues with the "miraculous" discovery of his head after a wolf assisted the searchers.
Signage around the memorial site just out of Hunstanton indicates that "St Edmund was a patron saint of England until the title was transferred to St George in the fourteenth century"
Thank you kind sir, (Jim) for posting the link to these two "performances".
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I didn’t realize how much I’d missed playing with other people when we recorded this...
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| MrClean wrote: | Hey Guys,
I took a day off today - probably the first time I haven't worked on Easter in 40 years... My colleagues Jeff Strong and Rob Hovencamp prerecorded the prelude and postlude for an Easter podcast. Happy Easter. |
I have to say the same thing. Have played Easter services for many, many years. It was kind of strange.
Thanks for the posting, lovely music for Easter.
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Beautiful playing on the Easter video!
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| MrClean wrote: | | I didn’t realize how much I’d missed playing with other people when we recorded this... |
Oh yes!
To try and "cover" for the above, I started some time back, transcribing hymns into a midi & manuscript software package. A lot of tedious work that ends up playing silly games with the eyes of us olds, but which does provide some kind of accompaniment/"companion" with which/whom to play.
Must get back to transcribing more ... fortunately most of these transcriptions are hymns (a couples of others also) of relatively short duration, sometimes with repeat phrasing that facilitates the "copy and paste" action - also great for adding repeats for the various verses.
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Episode #21
https://youtu.be/EfurVrf5qd8
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I must say that you can make the most academic of etudes sound musical. I really admire that. It really makes one think about exercises, etudes, etc. and how to approach them. I like the precision here, the careful attention to each note while keeping phrases going and bringing out larger effects. And all that just on an etude.
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Episode #22
https://youtu.be/kb6tBnxNjps
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Thanks again Jim. Nice articulation and control here while remaining musical and keeping the phrasing going. I think that is really tough with an etude like this with its scalar content, much easier just to play the notes.
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Episode #23
https://youtu.be/qIC3qp9twTM
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Sounds like you are on an articulation test streak here Jim. That one made my embouchure tired just listening!
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Episode #24
https://youtu.be/rsSGlB30TKM
Hoping I didn't damage a microphone. There has been distortion in the last several that I can't pin down...
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Couldn't help but notice the first few notes (theme with variations?) resembled or were the same sequence as the opening few notes for a chorus learned years ago, brought to Australia by a visiting US church man ... Echo His love ... probably quite fitting to be reminded of that theme this soon after Easter.
Thank you for sharing your talent. 
BTW, just finished reading the Trumpet Herald featured interview from CNN back in 2001 of Phil Smith from New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Very interesting and another great "share."
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Episode #25
https://youtu.be/Qz4XIGmkwaI
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Some how I got one episode behind. Not feeling much distortion. Did you change your mic position? Looks likes you have quite a nice system.
Really nice sound on the Blazhevich Etude #77. The Longinotti Etude Fantasque was done really well, quite a tough one.
Thanks for keeping this up, Jim.
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Yes, I am tinkering with mic placement, gain, etc. I screwed up the settings for the reverb and have not found my way back to the sweet spot. The problem is that it all sounds fine until the file gets rendered to a format that can be played outside of the editing program. That’s where the gremlins live. I don’t hear it until I’ve waited the five minutes for it to convert. It gets time-consuming - I was up until 1:30 last night playing with it...
Those are not expensive mics - probably around $200/each, which is chump-change in the world of microphones. If I was serious about this (and not facing many months of unemployment) I might splurge for a nice Royer, AEA or Coles, but that just isn’t going to happen. And once I do go back to work, I will not have the physical resources to continue this project, nor the need. The whole point is to stay physically and mentally sharp so the transition back to the stage is not traumatic.
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| MrClean wrote: | Yes, I am tinkering with mic placement, gain, etc. I screwed up the settings for the reverb and have not found my way back to the sweet spot. The problem is that it all sounds fine until the file gets rendered to a format that can be played outside of the editing program. That’s where the gremlins live. I don’t hear it until I’ve waited the five minutes for it to convert. It gets time-consuming - I was up until 1:30 last night playing with it...
Those are not expensive mics - probably around $200/each, which is chump-change in the world of microphones. If I was serious about this (and not facing many months of unemployment) I might splurge for a nice Royer, AEA or Coles, but that just isn’t going to happen. And once I do go back to work, I will not have the physical resources to continue this project, nor the need. The whole point is to stay physically and mentally sharp so the transition back to the stage is not traumatic. |
What are you recording in? Sounds complicated and the rendering problematic if you cannot hear it before you render. Reverb settings are a pain, perhaps unnecessary.
We all hope this is temporary, and though I will miss your daily etudes when it is over, there is no way I want to prolong it!
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The room is not great, and these are ribbons, which also listen backwards into the room. This is why I am trying to sweeten the sound a little with reverb, but I can’t seem to dial back in a sweet spot I initially stumbled on. I am using Audacity for that, though I tried the internal reverb on the video editor. It sounded a little cleaner in the program, but I’m still not happy with the sound post-rendering. That’s what I get for trying to do it on the cheap.
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