1. Bob Hughes
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...this time the SNO made many acclaimed recordings with conductor Neemi Järvi. In 1989 he moved to London to join the Philharmonia Orchestra, succeeding Ray Premru. At this time he also bec...

2. Officers of the British Trombone Society
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... webmaster2@britishtrombonesociety.org News & Events Editor David Read 64A Dunlace Road London E5 0NE +44 (0)7812 080933 news@britishtrombonesociety.org Magazine Edit...

3. Friends and Relations: The Sackbut
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...s (Renaissance variations) on the popular song Suzanne ung jour for "Trombone alla bastarda" (London Pro Musica, LPM REP15). The term "bastarda" does not refer to the piece's re...

4. "The Improved Trombone": an essay in Edwardian ingenuity
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...ne example remains with the Salvation Army. It is now held at the Army's Heritage Centre in Judd Street, London, and is well worth a look, if only for the fine workmanship that went to its making. ...

5. Trombone Days 2009
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...one featured in an evening concert with the Scottish National Wind Orchestra. Venue: RSAMD, Glasgow. London - 21 June TBC - Hopefully this date will be confirmed and Bob Hughes can welcome us bac...

6. Large one or small one, sir?
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.... He seemed to positively relish this sound and even encouraged us. A certain eminent London music critic is currently using his regular column to bemoan the increase in the vo...

7. God's Trombones
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... (Translated by Mathias Feile) Peter Bassano is Head of Brass Faculty, Royal College of Music, London. His trombone students and a choir of mens' voices from RCM and other London conserva...

8. The Soprano Trombone Swindle
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...otnotes Works that cite Kunitz include the books The Trombone by Robin Gregory (London: Faber and Faber, 1973) and the Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde by Er...

9. Sheila Tracy talks to Dick Nash
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...they are looking for other areas to record so composers use the Seattle Symphony or go to London, lucky you, and we are now starting to lose a lot of the original connections w...

10. A Lament for Sam Hughes
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...ed to it as the "chromatic bullock" but even he, whose caustic indignation was often vented on London's brass players, had been moved by a rendering of O Ruddier than the Cherry by...

11. Ray Premru: An Appreciation
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...ssful composing career. During these 30 years, whether you were talking about the musicians or the London telephone book, it was true to say "there's only one Ray Premru". I first be...

12. Friends and Relations: The Ophicleide
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...oire), who took up the ophicleide in the 1830s in Paris, playing with Jullien's orchestra, and moved to London in about 1840. In 1853, when the orchestra went on its American tour, Samuel Hughes re...

13. Brett Baker
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...and Leyland Band. Brett has regularly performed in the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Symphony Hall in Birmingham and Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Over t...

14. Principal Trombone, LSO (Part II)
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... wasn't really a proper job at all. There had been what was called 'the big split' when the Sinfonia of London was created. Most of our best work including the film sessions, together with many ...

15. Sheila Tracy
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...me era, Talking Swing, was published in 1997, the year in which she was made a Freeman of the City of London and an A.R.A.M. Sheila is a former President of the British Trombone Society. ...

16. The Future is in Low Notes
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...wrote the following report of Chris Stearn's presentation. Students from Trinity College of Music, London gathered in the Philip Jones brass room on 13 October to take part in a masterclass, ...

17. Principal Trombone, LSO (Part I)
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...-1956 - Jock Ashby The recent retirement (1987) of Denis Wick as Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra brings to a close a half-century in which that prestigious p...

18. Matthew Parry
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... Gerald Douglas. Some years later he had lessons from Peter Lacey before leaving for Kings College, London to read mathematics. On graduating in 2000, and having contributed in his spare ti...

19. The London Trombone Sound
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Sixteen Trombones of Seven London Orchestras My best Christmas present - talking in "parliamo Glasgow" - is "pure dead brilliant". The Editor

20. Chapter 1: From Beethoven to Schumann
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...ii, Leipzig, 1911, pp. 11-12. Translated in E. Anderson (ed.), The Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven vol i, London , 1961, p. 189. This, as we whall see, was just the first of many such difficult e...

21. Sheila Tracy talks to Maisie Ringham
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... day she was born at Woolwich, the Abercarn Salvation Army Band from Wales was on a visit to London and spending Sunday in Woolwich, where Maisie's parents were the SA Commandin...

22. Part I: The Alto-Tenor-Bass Trombone Trio
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...t to have been written in 1791, three symphonies with trombone parts were composed by Ignace Pleyel for London's Professional Concerts.21 However, these works were all scored for a single trombone....

23. Holst's trombone practice causes a stir
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...oung composer forced to make a living early on as a trombonist. Often unable to afford the rail fare from London back to his home in Cheltenham, he would make the journey by foot with the trombone slu...

24. David Carnac
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...p;regularly with a wide variety of both professional and amateur ensembles and orchestras in and around London, including helping run the South East-based large trombone ensemble Trombonanza. ...

25. Edward Solomon
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...Since then, he has played the bass and contrabass trombones on a semi-professional basis with various London orchestras and ensembles, including the Finchley Chamber Orchestra, North London Symp...

26. Guildhall trombones win jazz prize
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...eter Gane could boast that Guildhall graduates held the position of Principal Trombone in the five major London symphony orchestras and there have been many similar appointments made throughout the...

27. On a Pedestal
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A renowned figure on the London orchestral scene, Alfred Flaszynski made a meteoric rise to fame in the most well-known of British orchestras immediately after the Second World War. Anthony Parsons

28. Royal Academy of Music/BTS Trombone Day
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Sunday 21st June 10.30am–6pm, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT Bones Apart • London Brass Trombones • Denis Wick Gordon Campbell • RAM Trombone

29. Coda: The Orchestral Alto Trombone in the Twentieth Century
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...nction as a perceptibly distinct timbral entity. Footnotes Cecil Forsyth, Orchestration, London, 1914, pp. 4-5, 89, 137. However, on p. 135 he appears to make some concession, decla...

30. Appendix 3
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...ymphony and opera orchestra in Great Britain1. The same survey was also completed by Denis Wick, former London Symphony Orchestra Principal Trombone, and Jay Friedman and Michael Mulcahy of the Ch...