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Guest artists Ken Shifrin, former principal trombone with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Mike Hall, faculty at Old Dominion University, will present “The Golden Age of the Solo Baroque ...
Yes, the instruments were original rather than modern, which meant the muted whirr of gut strings, the strident bite of sackbuts (a Renaissance/Baroque trombone), and the plucks and plinks of ...
If you liked “Guitar Hero” but wished it had more brass instruments, you’re in luck. A new rhythm game called “Trombone Champ” has struck a chord with users online, bringing the kind of ...
We're less familiar with the trombone's ancestor, the sackbut, even though the instrument is played to this day by specialists in Renaissance and baroque music.
There are also two wind players. Greg Ingles plays the sackbut, or baroque trombone, and Dominic Teresi the dulcian, a forerunner of the modern bassoon.
Except for some isolated uses as a concerto instrument, the trombone was largely ignored during the height of the Baroque period. Composers rejected them as old-fashioned relics used in early ...
Playing the sackbut, a Baroque-era trombone, is Keelan, an associate professor of trombone at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisc.
Tonight, 14 years and two university degrees later, Catherine Motuz will sit down with her baroque trombone at Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts & Humanities and make what she expects to be an ...
About The William & Mary Brass Ensemble is a chamber brass choir of between 10 and 15 musicians. Musicians play trumpet, horn, trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, and tuba as well as specialty ...
Music by the Trombone Choir will be launched with a baroque march by Arthur Frackenpohl. One of Richard Wagner most famous pieces, “Elsa”s Processional to the Cathedral,” will follow ...
This concert will feature, among other rarities, the theorbo (long-necked lute) and sackbut (baroque trombone). Expect to hear period-authentic deliveries of the programme of songs of love and ...