[TPIN] sol feggio

[William Ash]

At 04:40 PM 1/15/2008 -0500, Orion Development Corp - D. Arndt wrote:
>Tony reflected teaching and and approach to
>playing from an era when players drew less of a line between the two "worlds"
>of strictly "legit" playing and "commercial" playing.
>... it always seemed to me, that that philosophy of playing and
>approach to the horn is dying out - more a thing of the past, than of the
>future.

I don't think it's dying out -- it seems to me there are quite a few 
players today who go both ways (so to speak) quite capably. And for anyone 
trying to make a living today by playing the horn, it's more important than 
ever to be ready to play anything. Heck, even if you only play in a brass 
quintet, you can encounter music from centuries ago, contemporary 
classical, an Arban-style cornet solo, Dixieland, and swing -- all in the 
same set.


Bill Ash