[TPIN] Andre and Arban

[fields at stanford.edu]

Great story.  Didn't Harry James' father (a real piece of work) make  
him memorize a page of Arban every day when he was a child,  playing  
in the circus?  Don't know how far he got.

Ken Fields


Quoting "Ole J. Utnes" <ojtrumpet at gmail.com>:

> Good question - "Who really mastered all in Arban?"
>
> Here is a story about Maurice Andre:
>
> At 18, Maurice left the mine and entered the Paris Conservatory in the
> class of Professor Raymond Sabarich (1909-1966).
> On photos from that time one can see Maurice in the trumpet class in a
> military uniform.
> It was not an easy time in Paris without any money, a son of a miner.
> He always ate at the barracks, and studied in the barracks too.
> Raymond Sabarich soon discovered that this young miner was a great
> talent and he gave Maurice a "lesson" that he recall in this way in an
> interview:
>
>    3 months after my arrival in Paris, a good lad from the south and
> all that, Sabarich gave me a real piece of his mind. He had felt
> straight away that I was gifted, as is said, and so he loaded me with
> work… and I didn't deliver the goods as he wished. After 3 months he
> threw abuse at me and chucked me out of the class. Before his death -
> poor man  -  Sabarich always said: "lt's when Maurice André woke up.''
> How a good scolding does one good occasionally !
>
> After 3 months with a lot of practice, Maurice returned and played all
> the 14 etudes from Arban (in the back of the book) without making any
> mistakes.
>
> Ole
>
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