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. 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...

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. "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. ...

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. 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...

8. 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...

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. Brett Baker
(About/Biographies)

...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...

11. 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...

12. Sheila Tracy
(About/Biographies)

...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. ...

13. 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

14. 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...

15. 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...

16. Matthew Parry
(About/Biographies)

... 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...

17. 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 ...

18. 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...

19. 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...

20. David Carnac
(About/Biographies)

...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. ...

21. Bones Apart 10th Anniversary UK Tour
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...th a UK tour. The programme will include new and old favourites from the group's repertoire, and in the London concert we will be premiering a new commission by Matthew Taylor. They will also be pr...

22. 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...

23. 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

24. 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....

25. 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...

26. BTS Magazine out now!
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...l Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow. 7.30pm Friday 30 October - Over-Seas House, London. 7.30pm ...

27. Oundle Day & AGM
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...winners of the ITA Quartet Competition in 2006 will be performing and as well as a masterclass from a top London orchestral trombonist (TBC). The event will give lots of emphasis to the well-loved 'ma...

28. Edward Solomon
(About/Biographies)

...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...

29. 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

30. Chapter 2: The Ascent of the Tenor Trombone
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...t the alto trombone had not completely disappeared from English soil.  Carse refers to at least one London orchestra – the King's Theatre – which employed an alto trombonist, Smithi...