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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: A Strange Thread (skip beginning)
Post Subject: Epistimology as the study of the nature, origin and limits of knowledgePosted by rowuk on: 5/17/2026
There is a HUGE difference between a moron and an idiot. The moron has limited knowledge "capacity" and therefore is often dependent on others to be functional in society. They can not help themselves and therefore are very vulnerable. I get great joy in helping the helpless.
The idiot however generally chooses to make wrong decisions and I react strongly to people that know better but hide that knowledge.
Now, as far as this thread goes, I more or less left the moron and idiot out of my post, not out of spite, rather to make it easier to find words.
As far as my trumpet playing goes, I got an important concept from my mentor who was a trumpet player, organist and choir director. He told me about some newspaper interview where they asked him about his inspiration (the usual idiot type of interview) when playing Telemann (one of his specialties). His answer was "dem Werk gerecht" which means doing honor to the composition. The goal is to perform so that the audience recognizes the composer immediately, in this instance to think wow, Telemann composed some pretty awesome stuff. This is VERY, VERY different from many musicians that want to find "their voice" and want be recognized after the first couple of notes. They want to get good press about THEIR accomplishment and in my view miss the boat by making their name "bigger" than the composers. I too search for the essence of the composition.
Now, as a freelance trumpeter, I have plenty of chamber music opportunities. The big orchestra stuff, is steady but much different than what the "world class" ensembles get to do. I also play with several different project orchestras and I played Shostakovich 8 about 10 years ago (with Beethoven 8 in the same program). I will check my score and post my entries. I do remember spending a lot of time with the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Orchestra recording conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. It was the most "russian" trumpet playing available to me in my view. His presence was well outside of the orchestral fabric, not blending as we are taught in the USA. The color, articulation, phrasing were my reference back then. I believe this is the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFMWsfeO2uY
I think that many trumpeters today (including with the WDR) are playing to not miss notes instead of painting a picture. Especially the radio orchestras focus on getting in and out of the gig. Making ones own play memorable can be a huge liability...
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