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  • Peppercorn Trumpet Concerto in C Major

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    Here is the completed work... Trumpet Concerto in C Major. (Allegretto added Weds. 20th Sept, 2017)

    1. Allegro

    2. Allegretto (latest addition)

    3. Allegro Molto

    Hello folks. I've been able to stay busy thanks to all the prayers and positive thoughts sent my way. I have good days and bad just like anyone else but overall doing as well as expected. Here is a new installment for my trumpet concerto....

    1. Allegro

    Special Editions 1 and 2 (without plus). Thanks!
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    Beautiful. You are really a master of the classical form. I wouldn't be able to tell that this wasn't by Haydn or a  composer from his time.

    Anand
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    Thank you Anand! That means a lot to me... Haydn happens to be my favorite!
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    That sounds great.  Congratulations on another excellent piece -  amazing amount of fine work you have done!
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    Thank you Willaim!
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    I enjoyed this very much, and listened a few more of your works, rare are the people who can master this classical style and with such discipline while coming up with fresh enjoyable material. You have my admiration.

    Or could you be Haydn resurected?
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    Hi Wayne,

    Needless to say that this is again a brilliant example of your mastery of the classical composition style. This time you've added a superb trumpet technique (with the SE library!) with such accurate and well performed staccatos, sweet legatos and harsh power trumpet. A real display of the possibilities of the trumpet, all in one concerto movement. Glad you've found the courage and the power to write such a marvellous piece. We're waiting impatiently for the rest of the concerto.

    Congrats and all the best!

    Max
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    Thank you Guy and Max...I really appreciate it!
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    This movement finishes the Trumpet Concerto in C Major:

    2. Allegretto

    Sometimes I think the slow movement is the hardest to write. It requires so much expresion and since the tempo is slow everything is exposed. But I do love to write these... Thanks for listening.

    Here is the completed work... Trumpet Concerto in C Major.

    1. Allegro

    2. Allegretto

    3. Allegro Molto
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    Wayne that is excellent.  In the final movement I like how the middle minor section contrasts and then suddenly moves back to the major recapitulation. This piece would really be of interest to trumpet players.  They need to find out about it!  That is the problem (as I know all too well with my own pieces...)  Anyway that is a great piece!
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    Thanks so much William! And yes, it's near impossible to get our works played....you really have to know someone who can help you out. I've been lucky to have my wife's group perform my wind dectet and my high school's theater company (I taught AP Physics in high school) perform 3 of our musicals (we sold out 24 performances!). Those are memories I will always treasure. The rest of the music....well.....it's there just for the enjoyment of writing it.
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    Hi Wayne,

    I've listened to all the parts again and indeed, they make a perfect whole. A fantastic job, a warm tribute to the trumpet! Let's hope (with you, William and so many others here) that one day somebody will have the courage (and the money, power...) to program some of your marvellous works for a concert. Such lovely music is a guarantee on itself to fill concert halls. I've nothing against modernism, but it frightens off so many music lovers because of its (pseudo) intellectualism, its cerebral approach, its tonal arbitrariness and (abusive) use of instruments for the sake of the originality and experiment. People simple don't understand it. Shouldn't a concert provide a pleasant evening, making people happy? Well that's exactly what you've been doing so many times!

    Jos (Max)
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