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- "EchoTaps" (866 people play Taps)
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- Gregory Keeler
To be aired on WSKG Radio Monday, May 30. Some other New York stations may be picking it up.
10:27 piece, great for Memorial Day. Nat sound and some history of "Taps," plus a description of "EchoTaps," the 41-mile line of brass players playing Taps sequentially between two Upstate, NY veterans' cemeteries. After that event, all 866 brass players were bussed to a central location to play Taps together.
Talks about how Taps was written. Interview with descendents of General Butterfield, credited with writing Taps. A young woman descendent is among the 866 players... interviewed & she plays.
Piece ends with the "massed Taps" - 866 brass players of all stripes playing Taps together.
To be aired on WSKG Radio Monday, May 30. Some other New York stations may be picking it up.
10:27 piece, great for Memorial Day. Nat sound and some history of "Taps," plus a description of "EchoTaps," the 41-mile line of brass players playing Taps sequentially between two Upstate, NY veterans' cemeteries. After that event, all 866 brass players were bussed to a central location to play Taps together.
Talks about how Taps was written. Interview with descendents of General Butterfield, credited with writing Taps. A young woman descendent is among the 866 players... interviewed & she plays.
Piece ends with the "massed Taps" - 866 brass players of all stripes playing Taps together.
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To be aired on WSKG Radio Monday, May 30. Some other New York stations may be picking it up. 10:27 piece, great for Memorial Day. Nat sound and some history of "Taps," plus a description of "EchoTaps," the 41-mile line of brass players playing Taps sequentially between two Upstate, NY veterans' cemeteries. After that event, all 866 brass players were bussed to a central location to play Taps together. Talks about how Taps was written. Interview with descendents of General Butterfield, credited with writing Taps. A young woman descendent is among the 866 players... interviewed & she plays. Piece ends with the "massed Taps" - 866 brass players of all stripes playing Taps together.
Broadcast History
To be aired Monday, May 30th on WSKG Radio, Binghamton NY. Has been offered to other NY stations.
Timing and Cues
Please credit photos:
All images are copyright 2005 Paul Goldschmidt, all rights reserved.
Piece runs 10:24
Musical Works
"Taps" (public domain)
Additional Files
- Some of the 866 brass players gathered for "massed Taps" (EchoTaps1.jpg)
- From behind: Boy with EchoTaps T-shirt holds his horn ("For Those Who Gave the Last Full Measure" visible on back of shirt (EchoTaps5.jpg)
- People line the street in lawn chairs... One of the players waits for her cue, sitting on her horn case (EchoTaps4.jpg)
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Deborah Astley
Posted on May 27, 2005 at 01:16 PM | Permalink
Review of "EchoTaps" (866 people play Taps)
Echo Taps is a beautiful, uplifting concept. While listening to the piece, I imagined all the buglers stretching 41 miles from one town to the next, and the people waiting for the song to drift to them. A lovely thing. The piece begins with authoritative interviews that give background on the history of Taps and talks about bugles. The descendants of General Butterfield, the originator of Taps, are interviewed also. Who has listened to Taps and not gotten a lump in one's throat? The finale - 866 horns playing Taps all at once - is beautiful and listeners will stop whatever they are doing just to hear it.
Well done and perfect for Memorial Day or even Fourth of July.