The World Trombone Quartet…well, almost…live from the Juilliard School in New York on Sarah´s Horn Hangouts. The Hangout with Joe Alessi and Jörgen van Rijen was part of the International Trombone Festival 2016 - enjoy the insights, tips and wonderful playing of these trombone heroes!
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[Music] [Applause] the first event of the silver one quickly by star 51 president of the international touring festival year at Juilliard in the north and hi to everyone at home watching on or lineup is earning people watching with Alaska Singapore Beijing austero my mom’s watching English paper and it’s a tough even throw out here I’m live it up like that negative
I’m surrounded by Tom both players which is actually very lovely MSA we’ve got something to tell you today’s hangout will advertise the world Rolo cortex today we come world Tobin jewel unfortunately on a new channel all right well the current leadership which we sell about but I know Stefan is watching and that you also love and hope you feel better very soon but to [Applause] [Music] we become very very perfect so this is the one hand we’ve got combat abilities you’re possible up there in the box dunja helping us out with the students come over especially and the
Judi RTO all running the street from here so we’ve been so lucky today to work either so welcome any reason why we wants to do a hangout was because of your CP you guys all got together or just for fun how did the idea undergraduate come well first of all welcome to Internet Lance I want to thank this wonderful program and before
I answer that question please check out all the great stuff that you’ve done or it’s just lufthansa I know if you’re seated with tons of Orchestra and what she did with with that and interviewing all the pilots and there is an actual discontent order I think that that was just saying hey but anyway we we got together when was a couple years ago and nine o’clock so anyway from what where you know playing trombone processes is like writing a string quartet and it’s you know there’s so many canning of string quartets and many years ago
I was involved in the ball quartet for the time and and you know too much force has come ago and music engages they come in via and the Paris from all four clips you know very famous quartet and so we got got you let’s make a quartet and we pick you know the greatest players and we’re honored to play with you show the cave stuff on tools and and so it’s just like you know any other group we got together in and you know let’s make it recording and get some new pieces
Commission and that’s what we did and so it’s been just a great honor play ball it’s really interesting thing because you guys played two different you will be come from different styles and in the french village pilot the race don’t know Germans French I should marry you like that but the world pretentious or something but it was just the first concept we did one side factory festival under the theme of the best all of us meet the world from this from all over the world especially for that different style together and we have that he’ll make it associated with a base or told us a
Little more content over there so when we set this up the first nail we organizing you go to explain at me to everyone because idol world to loop or tie me to this amazing it before for the best alert in the world but you didn’t want me to explain like that if you know they don’t mean it in any protection or just people from different parts over getting together and actually what’s the nice thing about what you said the different styles of course when we pay in our situation our
Orchestra have different cell service but it’s great fear that they are actually it opens our gear to get together and you make something so might little bit so it’s sometimes is I think it is too much divided in different it’s great I love it should say that it will be very boring everybody starts playing safe but it doesn’t mean you cannot fit here and you have to choose the one way or the other and you’re wrong that’s something that we feel really strong as we respect each other off we think right there together we make absolutely right yeah what would you say you picked up
From the others well the just different touch the way people do things it’s always interesting to listen to other players especially in the fees were going to play later you know if we’re all playing staying serious the same team and so forth but everybody does it slightly differently and I just find that interesting I’m always listening you know oh slightly flexion here is it’s very subtle heat all these things are so subtle but when you add them all up together there’s a huge difference but definitely have to really listen and
I think that’s that’s I think you know what what’s great about this group is everybody’s listening nobody fine we’ve got [Music] this and I’m so happy that the tromboney nerves of just acted with the whole nerves pretty well training they’re really fantastic rules are left is for negative like another good question is just coming to be is about the quartet rehearse with its members being on different slide with the
Atlantic forgiven network we only really have it around conscious with the most reversals that actually was around recording to see that that’s also why sculptors for fun we we were invited for a festive and always prompted and when we were looking for the day’s make we found out we are all played all week so then so you say that together
I think when we play the material and talk about it me and break some great reversals and of course a great ensemble a plant a rehearsal for a whole year we didn’t have that luxury so when we recorded the material you know you have a chance to talk and discuss more options so we did love you know this is the thing called rehearse and record and you know then we went back to listen to some things and we discussed different ways to do things and that’s that’s sort of the way to know you have to work very quickly and it’s very important that your grease
Intonation and everything wise up nurse it was never completely helped my teacher told me a story Bible teacher blend awesome Ito reported he stopped with the Chicago Symphony low graduation and he said the dirt when they stepped aboard another and that’s what kind of solid one so we didn’t really have to state funds we just sat down play yeah and
I think that’s the great thing about these musicians is that there’s very little discussion only one necessary here and just people just listening and playing and working together and why did you choose to go in trouble [Music] first concert we had only three or four pieces and then we did over the more concert before projects and every year there was like one two pieces added for me came with something that’s less private as well and if you think we have arranged especially for
CD so we’re just emailing about what would be nice I brought in some IDs and again I have to interrupt you and we just wanna say that show contractors watching on the chance that my friend I’m really sad contacted me [Music] [Applause] anyway it is amazing that people can also say just to make sure that you all know that
Sarah plays in the Berlin Film are member of dorks or at horn section amazing work later today listen I’m cool the city’s off to say it’s safe to say you two are huge musical heroes today many some general music you in the trauma world I’m extremely lucky honor debate is what you shall occur and show mercy to my teacher
I have studied over they came from a blessed analysis to important we share a lot so that were always with one size to unchristian convert host about things that were out there always and other than that I am lucky break I love to play with also with this kind of I always I from one word one other one that the first promo song by our host will be green 21 to moms
I was six to seven years old my father gave me the said that I played it so much that it broke and that’s always been my survivor before sound and that’s why I wanna come on what about non instances one of the great concepts that I was really really impressed from Osaka which still and I thought that
I honestly coming in both of these making it also they think you’ve got to know your music from right they’re very winning and broken before right up to your brain here today even Peter lighted just what I want to say I just made a few names but there’s too many years ago is it’s everything you listen to confronted you see this wire system students then you have an idea about how you view life is home and you can start working it doesn’t necessarily happen if you can sound like you want to stop but at least you have an idea where you want to go by
Listening to [Music] well I grew up in a musical family so there’s a mite I have a beautiful voice and really very good probably the main way that I play and so forth and keep saying yeah yeah caption wonderful anyway so but for both player be green of course you know and dick Nash they’re both gonna be here tomorrow people do but we’re going to have a big tribute to them which are all going to of course yeah we need to my stable there’s so many so many people that have been closely so but anyway probably probably
I think her phrasing and I think she talking about did you learn so much missing everything from lip told breathing freedom expression highness Jay Jay Johnson of course you know the best work I’d listen to him so so much that this town has given special warmth mouse that you know he probably could’ve played being a bit of basketball player because he had that warm
Krishna and so yeah I think I could work a lot of those records as well I’ve always thought interviewing people I’ve always had the best conditions of the ones that we really listen to huge variety music they really without accent I think these regulations it’s really very much for detectives and starts with each other and held me up during the life around
Mary and so we have my it’s 2011 in Japan and Ganges and you already have to multiply so that’s great question Anderson pet care laughter a suburb there Venezuela and the Curtis phones are saying really questions to the music from a couple but we gotta slip in here away and then the end s too many and we can take him also thank you do you have a pendant
Amazon yeah well my my father fantastic truck McCleary plea also ever met and his father my grandfather played at the Rialto Theater II port a soloist downtown summer but he also played at the Met and Thalia Manhattan school he was the trumpet instructor there and my brother Ralph is the terrific jazz trumpet player he was just at the trumpet conference he was invited to perform there and
Groudon someday we’re gonna get together and do a record together so oh yeah a lot of brass 20 but my great-grandfather was a trombone player but my father hurted once and said maybe you know it’s good meat in here we’ve requested went from Jerry and wall above in Australia when you come into Australia and your intonation exercises [Music] one of my students was warming up this morning me was buzzing next to the piano playing the panel above them yes if you can do that and concentrate and align yourself with the piano every day that’s
I think the same thing you know that’s great course and we brought this up because many times these what we would like to sound like and what we actually sound like comes together in the same grade and it mixes up so that so it’s good to do to actually hear the truth some of you think you paid you and then you report yourself in your expert knowledge if you record yourself identified recognized places knows that are always too high or too low began the anticipation that next time great so
I think it’s always nice you’re confronted with everything you do but this is the only way to either progression in click on yourself you guys lucky because you have this sort of slightly that you can adjust very quickly we use origination adjusting how much question I I think it’s a little bit of both you know I figure if you’re not buzzing the right pitch in your mind and you’re taking by a lot of puts students will buzz on their mouthpiece and you ask you to buzz a song or something and they can’t keep the pitch and invariably goes higher so they just go higher and
Higher net that’s exactly we’re having fun to play so you have to send the right message into the instrument and then of course the slide is just a fine tuning mechanism but that I would describe like that all right ideal situation to the boat in correct size goes over here to get the best sound movies we are lucky that we can do it in my pelvis when something you have to go against by only at the level you are an elected role is to go against the maximum the way she’s determining when she’s on her way to be here tomorrow so we’re very happy for
That Alex timing a visitor’s visa making treaties and he’s very proud and accessible inspirations festival journey well we’re all here just started and the big big thing either one of the internet which is about this flash mob it’s a secret get there by 12:30 with the trombone you play a trombone bring it yeah why well we’re trying to break the
Guinness Book of World Records and it’s you know something that good way to start the festival and bring everybody together and we’re going to do some Burnside and some bark and it’s going to be a lot of fun and then when you don’t musical music on the back Napoleon Hill with your bill thank you that we can’t do that
Los Angeles we have got to do something I was arrested because at the end of that we were flashed off the voltage people but great lineup gracious thought you’re all going to do thank you know not to not happy International Festival in New York at some point would be you know this is the tragedy so I think
I took upon myself to approach them in administration here and president Louisiana and they they were just wonderful and so I think I finally it’s a dream dream come true for me to actually host this festival [Applause] we have this wonderful staffer that’s helping out tremendously 87 they are absolutely amazing and so I think everything is very clear you know
I saw you from a place in Syria who a massive performance became and we say family but we award signage around small anyway about 30 holes you need to talk to anybody watching at home from be here that will see we can do yeah and we need a 12-part bread out for your venture with bigger music and so forth yes we’re going to show me that so take out there forever so how do we know that we will select people at amazing
Armenia hi next tab Moscow I am it’s great you think like I hope you very well Romney the Alexander poll Orchestra so really buzzing Raymond miles about buzzing that’s another okay I would you they were they’re all coming in you guys know - buzzing before playing somber how can you take well sorry you know what I go over
Christian member [Laughter] [Applause] many people it’s a I think there’s no hard fast rule for each player you know I recently left the wrong very read and thought ball but then there’s for the time to meet the bus so I’m actually bugging again and I both but a little bit in the morning and in the range that you know that
I need work on and it does help does help I think I think the main thing with budgets everybody in the room were around the world to be able to bust a song in the middle register and keep the pitch and not that keep your blood very straight and relaxed way to mountains with them with the mouthpiece excuse me yes with the moment and if you can’t keep the tune and you can’t eat the pitch and you can’t even send relax but then then you it translates off the instrument so
I think everybody can have to be able to do that one set of functions play nice little melody keep it relaxed and your no shaking you know and keep the pitch and then if you can do that there’s huge benefits on you and you choose you would recommend that you actually that comes to your mind do sure [Music] yes and
I think I know there is some some set forth for some people because it was harm you I think everything you do if you do it with something that you feel is going against making you were so self-evident and unfortunately do but immediately how’s about to connect like so bad with the actual muscle thing if you see a certain page the training from when were very here issue to see it and it works and also at the same connection to your date when
I put here serve occasionally with that you can actually grab the fish right away with it yes for me the best way to do that is by because I do it always connected we always I think you do not harm yourself also to go back to playing this what it does we played two bars that one is to forget the operation go community so for me it helps box
I do it and if you feel it doesn’t work for you shouldn’t instead something very important is it it’s off the canister to all of that it helps do something when they go away to do it to this screen and they come back or when they go somewhere else to say well tear away so they should give that
Mericle anymore so you know what that always be there with with the brain benefits and they’re not or you should change the way you can look at all doing something anymore and the former most efficient both use any one thing that’s frustrated you about your playing did you have a helmet I think you did but players life is very fragile and your injury would be something that could happen along the way and you know some things will change you know age of course things change you know your vital capacity is left and you have to compensate with other things so you you know that’s probably
The most frustrating you know air is not what a misses you so I have to do things you know different things so actually tomorrow tonight I’m going to announce I have all your email addresses so sorry I won’t do I won’t send it to the market for their problems there but yeah man announced of accessible run in such a park tomorrow morning is their sixth row game so if any of you would like to join us
I’m going to announce it and we’re going to meet right out here and we’re going to go into Central Park and I have a beautiful many ways I find it that helps me a lot and and in the end you almost never played one there’s not many people that was exactly 100% the way I do not have a definite you have to be careful not to bring so much down
I can frustrated that they were crazy with that and you actually got worse so I try to to not get too frustrated so that’s different between some ambition or frustration it should be somewhere I know I would like to play something I would almost have already reach it but you get frustrated about it all the time at some point you to yourself down country anymore so there’s been many moments like that personally
I am NOT however great no register when I start my favorite they already come home to those all the time like Sydney listen sit down a lot if I try to do it it’s not background age around thank you so I can we have other people you must know that when I did my doctorate passion was well yeah we have a great set up on stage at the daily get them all because the
Purdue everybody has their spot we work on it many years when I first got there but now the percussion are sort of off the side of oil yeah watchwords the horn yes the opposite so we don’t really not affected by that too much we got the peso section and the horns own sit in front of us which is nice we encourage them to play louder than a photographer we don’t like them they don’t like houses and psychologists yeah but it’s a copacetic atmosphere on stage and but not my law profession right eye first great percussion section hiker was playing this little microphone fan and how
An angel Tony Orlando you’re just rocks are you know and I just love that wait wait funny and of course our professional second we love the questions that I question in Kentucky about you everything to dividing your concern if you get the ones like on the other side I remember going downstairs is one of the scariest things ever done if you see me contact yep like that it’s been a complicated station but there’s two stairs crossing the stage so we are always between simply and self and that exactl for charity how are you in the hole any questions yes please come go your landmark agent
Baller third any remembrance it’s about your cell Reza’s maid in every time I go through well thank you later we were planning on having a verbal section our section coming to play at this event with the column are so cute player just that baby and of course also George around increasing the half that you so everything’s a bit you know didn’t go on to get together and work that out but thank you very much yep the
I’ll never forget doing model 300 verse 9 and that’s a dress rehearsal you know it was packed absolutely packed and it was a big moment for me but I had this great relationship with my first time and you know I miss him very much but wait he did bother just unpatched but over the years if you know you just involved with three greasy week and it for a component players and sent a microscope it’s a big that’s that that’s the big event you know out of all the things that we play as soloist so
Phil Meyer and I were just talking about this and said you know you guys won’t get a chance to do much in New York no Sammy and well-meaning being that as a solo there’s threat you know express yourself and and so when you get to play that particular solo you know you really have to step up and study it and think about
I want to do it so I’ve done I think eight cycles now eight different conductors and I’ve very blessed and I’m sure you’ve done it many times so it’s I think so I think anytime to get a chance to do that it’s just a wonderful opportunity I’m not that’s always also the thing in Orchestra went where you don’t have that many someone speaking to people play our note it’s like you know you ever going to grow some words are you see on the top of a sudden something like that you prepare differently preparation for what for me
Linda when you do mawla created just listening to the background that I got oh that’s just so told you know there’s not there’s not many notes that you play it’s a you know b-flat day that so it’s just you just have to be extremely whole and accurate with your intonation and the sound to get the sound here that how you want to play you know and just just working with that and listening to that that’s so inspirational for me before you point you know getting excited about and the way it waves prepared you know in the introduction and the opening importance it’s a you know
Just to get actually the horn sound is a great model how to play you know we don’t so many solos first time I found three was not even with my orchestra the first time I played it was four I was 17 years ago turtle also retired and then it becomes a big deal because it’s one of these total so it’s
I had to force myself to prepare it really well put in a way you know I actually knew oh and something needs to be practiced in here in school but still I have to mentally prepare very well contract that at that moment Asante prepared first time I played with the valley in the water and I was it was scary it was presented with a dork astronomy live recording everything but it was also very exciting but it’s something you’ve done since you started studying from bone you’ll be waiting for the moon finally actually
I played indoors so it’s great for any only the only soul away you really can make a difference as for money for hobbies where you have to talk for an hour let’s play bolero yeah there’s three like coercion and and you have to know when to commit perfect story before me never played it ever I mean we play it but never played before no idea so he keeps sitting and waiting in the conference it says tacit you know there’s like 16 bars anybody but he didn’t know you dissolve but he didn’t know the order of the
Sultan so we ended up playing one course [Music] yeah he kept going and he almost makes like halfway and finding the trouble person though it’s the next one I have something to do while we’re preparing committee I want you to take a photo or something where you’re watching from this is great when I asked for this I get those people’s dogs watching a horn hangout and we want to [Applause] yes now we had to think very quickly because of a new boss to the members and
I thought of mr. Bjorkman from Dortmund fantastic Swedish team boss and he flew all the way over here at the last minute he can be doing a clinic from performing in our concert solo and this was wonderful tell them and so we invite him coming up on stage and then wonderful wonderful colleague here to Juilliard Paul Pollard amazing facial bone and tenor trombone player who played with the
Metropolitan Opera in Finnish we work together to running sure they’re both choir so we’re honored to play three gentlemen thank you guys you’ll have a few tropicals microstate we’ll say goodbye for my house but enjoy the music and I’ll enjoy the festival and were to be around today Tony Aria Bengal India demon which me in the night pushes it’s your name especially for bill for our quarter by
Belgian arranger composer to mistake for us thank you guys [Applause] [Music] you [Music] you [Applause] [Music]
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