[TPIN] Roger Voisin Memorial

[Dave Arndt (gmail)]

Wonderful article.   I especially appreciate the last couple of paragraphs:

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... "He was an exceptionally exciting player. He had all kinds of flair and
personality in his playing, something maybe you don't hear so much in the
symphonic world these days."

Mr. Voisin seemed to agree with this broader assessment. He told the Globe
in 2003, "What I miss when I listen to orchestras today is the signature of
individual players and of the ensemble. When you used to listen to an
orchestra, Philadelphia or Boston or New York, you would know immediately
which one it was; nowadays I have a hell of a time finding out who's
playing. It is superb; it is beautiful; but it doesn't have a signature."

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I've been making this same assertion for years.  The "personality" seems to
have been white-washed out of our orchestras.  I used to love to put on a
recording and see how quickly I could identify if it was Voisin, Vacchiano,
Herseth, Adelstein,...

- Dave Arndt


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Roger Voisin
1918 - 2008
 
<http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/02/15/roger_loui
s_voisin_89_bso_trumpet_player_for_38_years/> (Boston Globe Coverage)