well what kind of music do you like well seeing as how i'm a musician i like all kinds of music um-hum yeah we all very very kinds um-hum me too i mostly like classical and jazz uh-huh well i like everything from hard core country to you know Wagner and Mahler and i like new age stuff i i basically have a wide range of musical likes um-hum do you um are you musical uh are you a musician at all yeah i play the trumpet uh-huh do you most of the trumpet music's um um Baroque and um um um Romantic Baroque and Romantic jazz uh-huh yeah that's not there there's um things written for Doc Severinsen and a few other people but uh they're just uh as far as solos and concertos are concerned but the rest of them are just parts right and all um well i love Baroque music so it's one of my favorite periods um-hum and and in fact i i sing with the Texas Baroque ensemble um-hum who are the trumpet players in that well we used to have um Ralph Dutchen but now he's in Massachusetts he's come back a couple of times then there's a trumpet player at North Texas the the teacher the main teacher uh-huh Leonard Candelaria yeah yeah and he's played and the two of them have played natural trumpets and occasionally when she can't get those people we'll use you know just uh E flat trumpets uh-huh um-hum with valves and like Glen Bell plays and yeah uh Rick um Bogart's played too so uh-huh but actually i like i like trumpet and organ together um-hum it's a nice combination yeah Richard Jung Julio recorded an album at Saint Thomas Aquinas didn't he yeah yeah i think he did with Paul yeah he's wonderful both of them are so do you like Romantic music well that's what that's mostly the rest of good trumpet marks are Romantic music Mahler and Ruckner and and Strauss um-hum do you like opera uh i like i'm liking it more and more now uh-huh getting used to it there's a and mostly uh mostly Mozart uh-huh i mean there's not there's not any kind of trumpet parts but uh you know the i just like the melodies more and and and uh the libretto uh-huh you don't like Puccini um yeah well i like Rossini better than Puccini uh-huh i like more comic than uh-huh are you going to go see The Elixir of Love no do you ever go to the Dallas Opera uh no i've never been to the Dallas Opera only the Fort Worth Opera uh-huh and my trumpet teacher used to uh play in the Fort Worth Opera who was your trumpet teacher uh John Nelson uh-huh i know him i kind of know him is he still around here uh-huh yeah he played in the Fort Worth Symphony in Fort Worth mostly because i don't i've not seen him playing anywhere lately but maybe it's because he's playing in Fort Worth yeah well i'm basically a church musician i do a church in Plano and we do all kinds of music at my church and we hire lots of instrumentalists off and on for different things yeah uh um-hum so i'm always making music of one kind or another which Church is it uh it's at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano uh uh-huh it seems like a lot of churches are hiring more musicians now than they used to yeah most churches have the well there's some of the few organizations that have the funds to you know to do like big big works um-hum uh but we hire you know we hire an orchestra at least twice a year and then different instrumentalists off and on throughout the year that we have you know John Cuminado yes he plays at our church a lot uh-huh in fact he is playing this Sunday at our church but he's still teaching at Brookhaven isn't he but he plays pretty regularly uh i think so he teaches a lot in Plano at high schools but i think he teaches at Brookhaven oh yeah yeah because i heard Glen Bell taught at Plano as well yeah Glen teaches here too they're the two of them are mainly pretty much the i think they've cornered the market on trumpet students uh-huh