Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:24 pm Post subject: Marcel. . .Maurice André
Marcel André with a type of physical trumpet Dna that passed to the son. A miner his whole life in the village of Alès, but with extraordinary enthusiasm for playing in local brass groups.
With an increasing number of folks that use only ear buds or computer speakers.. audio buffs might try a pair of early Advents, that can be found without great effort. Foam kit generally needed but with elmer's glue are 2 hours to restore. Intended - 80 watts a channel, but 45 will work. Bass of a pipe organ will reverberate a room or house, and the overall sound is tremendous.
There are some fine legit soloists today, but inside a cathedral where the slightest flaw can be heard, playing up high, and before the last chorus land on the F in the staff like that.. is not common today or fifty years ago.
Analogy - Rocky Marciano wasn't the biggest, fastest, or strongest, but when all was said and done, many still regard as the greatest heavyweight of all time.
I had the pleasure of hearing and meeting Maurice Andre. He appeared as a soloist with The 92nd Street YMHA Orchestra. This would have been around 1985, Gerard Schwartz was conducting.
He was astounding. After the performance he was standing by himself, and I approached him to sign my program. He didn't speak much English but was very gracious. An odd little memory. He had changed clothes and was wearing a bolo tie!!!!! I sometimes can't remember what I ate for breakfast, but I remember the bolo tie.
..He didn't speak much English but was very gracious. An odd little memory. He had changed clothes and was wearing a bolo tie!!!!! I sometimes can't remember what I ate for breakfast, but I remember the bolo tie.
I had the pleasure of hearing and meeting Maurice Andre. He appeared as a soloist with The 92nd Street YMHA Orchestra. This would have been around 1985, Gerard Schwartz was conducting.
He was astounding.
Agree, my .02 on what it was like hearing him at Heinz hall. Standard fare pieces of Haydn were not all that exciting. He was able to impress with sound levels, in the middle, or end of a passage or phrase.
Although there was a good amount of soft, mf, playing, he would swell the volume, 3x - 4x in a way that no one in the place could confuse for anything but powerful, top of staff to high E or F.. plus the sound seemed to be as good as a Chef style cheesecake.. one fresh baked.
Years ago a review was given by someone that caught him in Europe.. at a Cathedral on something difficult, involving some 45 min of playing, seen in high spirits, bobbing or 'dancing' as it went along. Fellow included the remark, "he didn't even almost miss a note."
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