A *Must* Listen--All Music Majors (The *original Mahler 2)

[purplepepper]

Hi all,

In a former life I was a music performance major (trumpet), and I was going through some of my old emails when I came across this message. I'll cut and past the email with the link. And feel free to send it around. Anyone with any sense will appreciate it.

For the true music lover, from a friend of a friend: (no ofense intended)

"Ahhh. The end of another long semester and finally some time for quality research. In digging profusely through library after library and from one end of the globe to the other -- I have finally managed to unearth Mahler's ORIGINAL 1st trumpet part to his Symphony No. 2.

This is an mp3 of the resultant research (tongue firmly planted in cheek, mind you)... and is a fairly large download. But my oh my, is the wait ever worth your time!

You'll want to save this one.

Click below or cut and paste the address in your address bar. I hope it works. Make sure you turn on your sound.

http://www.inlex.net/feck/mahler.mp3

[purplepepper]

I forgot to add that the good part is a little ways into the clip--maybe about a minute or so. Enjoy!

[DrFaustus666]

Hi all,

In a former life I was a music performance major (trumpet), and I was going through some of my old emails when I came across this message. I'll cut and past the email with the link. And feel free to send it around. Anyone with any sense will appreciate it.

For the true music lover, from a friend of a friend: (no ofense intended)

"Ahhh. The end of another long semester and finally some time for quality research. In digging profusely through library after library and from one end of the globe to the other -- I have finally managed to unearth Mahler's ORIGINAL 1st trumpet part to his Symphony No. 2.

This is an mp3 of the resultant research (tongue firmly planted in cheek, mind you)... and is a fairly large download. But my oh my, is the wait ever worth your time!

You'll want to save this one.

Click below or cut and paste the address in your address bar. I hope it works. Make sure you turn on your sound.

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(also from a former performance major: trombone) This link needs a warning that the listener should absolutely not attempt to listen to this while eating, drinking, or holding anything breakable, because he/she risks choking to death or breaking something valuable due to uncontrollable hysterical sidesplitting laughter ! WHAT A FANTASTIC POST ! ! ! ! !

[yehk]

Sounds like ME PLAYING THE TRUMPET HAHAHAHA

[DrFaustus666]

Sounds like ME PLAYING THE TRUMPET HAHAHAHA

In my undergraduate years I roomed with a jazz trumpet player and a jazz trombonist, as well as another straight (classical) trombonist such as myself.

There was a constant war between those of us who liked the ultra-late-Wagnerian sound of Mahler and R. Strauss, and **those guys** who liked Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton, etc.

God this recording brings back those days so many years ago!

[yehk]

Me? I'm a first study pianist, second study trumpet... and the two standards could NOT be further apart... get made fun of that all the time!