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It was a fantastic episode Maurizio! Length was no issue for me, I really enjoyed the musical excerpts.

I didn’t see that, but if true, it sucks. But not overly surprising since it’s Disney after all.

Just to add to the rumour basket... I talked to Tim at Omni about ordering Total Recall, and he mentioned that other “things” were coming, and it might be worth waiting on ordering, in order to save a bit on shipping by combining purchases... But you didn’t hear it from me...

It was me...lol I commented on his IG post of the tracklist

Someone needs to ask him if the Solo score will get the same Omni publishing treatment. That would be incredible.

Got mine today, no scratches. Sounds amazing. Also got here fairly fast.

As an orchestral trumpet player who’s basically not allowed to perform in public because of covid health protocols, even if we have only 5 active cases in the whole province of Nova Scotia, I find this somewhat troubling. You wouldn’t catch me in a full concert hall in Europe these days...or anywhere else for that matter.

I finally decided to start the podcast from the beginning. I listened to a few episodes, and realized that it makes a lot more sense to go in order. Tonight I stopped after The secret ways. Even in 1961, you definitely start to hear thé genesis of his style. Really enjoying your analysis of the scores. Not sure how long it’ll take me to catch up, but I’m definitely going to keep going in chronological order. Thanks for doing this

My copy has shipped. I also ordered Batman. Splits the shipping costs almost evenly between the 2. Much better deal.

Anyone heard anything regarding TROS?

I can’t imagine JW meant it in a bad way. But indeed it probably did hurt. Although it seems Malcolm has enough ego to be able to take it. I also play principal trumpet chair in my orchestra. It definitely takes a bit of ego to get through it. Without sounding too arrogant of course. I absolutely love Malcolm’s playing, he’s been an inspiration for a long time. But he’s from a generation that can handle themselves. I’m sure he’s fine. In any case, fabulous interview Maurizio!

According to Seth MacFarlane, season 3 is not even done. They had to shut down production because of Covid. Who knows when they’ll finish.

Orchestras can’t just cancel everything. We need to at least try to get some stuff out there for our audiences. But we have to adhere to public health measures. I’m lucky enough that I’m in Canada, and I should be able to get most of my salary for next season,partly because of the government’s help, even if it won’t be possible to do anything but small ensembles for small audiences. I feel really bad for all the freelance musicians out there. Not easy to be a professional musician these days. Orchestras don’t make any money on a good year, let alone when not a single ticket is sold.

I don’t get it. But JP is much better.

The first rehearsal was is an incredibly packed church...extremely difficult to hear anything. For the first rehearsal, the conductor had a monitor to follow along, but there was nothing else from the movie. No click track was used. The conductor was extremely clear and knew the score incredibly well, the tricky part was to be able to see him. The sound of the movie wasn’t overly distracting, as it was coming out of speakers that were in front of us. From what I heard from audience members, it seems the balance was really good. I guess the sound guys were impressed by the trumpet section...I suppose it pays off to be a huge JW fan 😃 it truly was a fantastic experience. We were going to possibly do chamber of secrets or Home Alone this coming season, but covid had other plans...

We had a 2.5 hour rehearsal and a 3 hour dress, the afternoon of the show. Definitely didn’t feel over rehearsed.

There were a few technical cues that required more work, but for the most part, keeping things in sync was the challenge. The very scary part for me, was that we didn’t have time to run the whole quidditch cue twice before the show...It definitely was exciting. cues are also rehearsed completely out of order. So the show is the first time you play it from top to bottom. It was an incredible experience. I really hope we get to do more.

They tend to sound a little darker in general. But they may have used a shallower mouthpiece to not lose too much of the brightness that Williams’s music requires.

Do you mean cornet? The difference is actually not very big. A cornet is conical, meaning it starts getting bigger gradually until it reaches the bell. A trumpet is cylindrical, meaning the tube stays the exact same size until it opens up close to the bell. The trumpets they use in Vienna are completely different. Their valves are closer to those of a french horn. Both the cornet and the rotary valve trumpet sound darker than a regular trumpet.

Great interview, thanks for sharing. I loved the bit about the rotary trumpets. As a trumpet player myself, I was very curious how Williams’s music would sound on those. I haven’t been disappointed with the few excerpts we’ve heard so far.

How can it not be ESB.....

Such a cool piece. I need to get on it and start practicing it. Something to work on until live performances start again.

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