Irving Sarin's voice is cobblestone over which his trumpet solos pour smooth as water in Adam Allington's mix of "First Trumpet Memories", an interview detailing conductor Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra in the mid- 20th Century.
MDs with a classical music format will find plenty of opportunities for this erudite insider's look at the personalities of the symphony, but the specificity removes it from general-interest programming.
There's some hollow mic-ing at the intro, and when Sarin complains that under Reiner, "Life became torturous," Allington follows, cartoonishly, with the opening of Beethoven's Fifth – not exactly a showcase for trumpet – but, overall, the piece is produced and edited smoothly. A classic classical interview.
Review of First Trumpet Memories
Geo Beach
Posted on July 22, 2005 at 07:02 PM
Irving Sarin's voice is cobblestone over which his trumpet solos pour smooth as water in Adam Allington's mix of "First Trumpet Memories", an interview detailing conductor Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra in the mid- 20th Century.
MDs with a classical music format will find plenty of opportunities for this erudite insider's look at the personalities of the symphony, but the specificity removes it from general-interest programming.
There's some hollow mic-ing at the intro, and when Sarin complains that under Reiner, "Life became torturous," Allington follows, cartoonishly, with the opening of Beethoven's Fifth – not exactly a showcase for trumpet – but, overall, the piece is produced and edited smoothly. A classic classical interview.