well what kind of music do you like
well seeing as how i'm a musician i like all kinds of music
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yeah we
all very very kinds
um-hum me too i mostly like classical and jazz
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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
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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
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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
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and and
in fact i i sing with the Texas Baroque ensemble
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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
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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
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with valves and like Glen Bell plays and
yeah
uh Rick um
Bogart's played too so
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but actually i like i like trumpet and organ together
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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
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do you like opera
uh i like i'm liking it more and more now
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getting used to it
there's a
and mostly uh mostly Mozart
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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
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you don't like Puccini
um yeah well i like Rossini better than Puccini
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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