Edward Tarr European Trumpet History Tour

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Edward Tarr – Trumpet Soloist and Musicologist –  1971

 

Edward Hankins Tarr (born June 15, 1936) in Norwich, Connecticut, is a fine, classically trained American trumpet player and ground breaking musicologist.  In 1953, Edward was a student of Roger Voisin, principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in 1958–1959 with Adolph Herseth, principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony.

Early in his musical career, Edward Tarr moved to Europe and began his first … Read the rest

Blue Room New Orleans

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New Orleans Blue Room Fairmont Hotel 1980’s

Located at 123 Baronne Street in New Orleans, the Roosevelt Hotel (became the Fairmont Hotel in 1965 and in 2007 the original Roosevelt Hotel name was restored once again in 2007) originally opened in 1893 as “The Grunewald”. After a few years of operation, it was purchased by a group of New Orleans investors and renamed “The Roosevelt Hotel” (in honor of late former president Theodore Roosevelt).

The current hotel maintains 504 guest … Read the rest

Cyprus National Chamber Orchestra 1973

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Cyprus 1973

 

Trumpet player, Bob Amato had finished his music studies at UMASS-Amherst in 1972 and by 1973, Bob was still living in the Amherst, Massachusetts area ‘freelancing’ which is another term for ‘starving’.

Bob’s former UMASS trumpet teacher, Walter “Wally” Chesnut got a phone call from Tamara Brooks who was the newly appointed Cyprus National Chamber Orchestra music director. Tamara Brooks was the outstanding Director and Conductor of the all female, Mt. Holyoke College Glee Club … Read the rest

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