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My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): Optimistic Voices ["We NEED Those Right Now!"] – from Wizard of Oz – (Harold Arlen/Herbert Stothart)
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Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): The Raiders March – from Raiders of the Lost Ark – (John Williams)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): Princess Leia's Theme – from Star Wars (John Williams)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Flugelhorn Cover): Killing Me Softly with his Song (Charles Fox)
The Night at the Ballet: La Bayadère
Beautiful moments if you can spare the time to watch this exquisite performance of “La Bayadère“; a great story line of love, revenge and murder where the lovers Nikita – the Temple Dancer – and Solor – the warrior having been brutally separated in life are finally reunited in death […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): Gonna Fly – Rocky (Bill Conti) from Rocky
My Journey with the Trumpet (Flugelhorn Cover): Theme from TV Series M*A*S*H (Johnny Mandel)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): In Dreams (Howard Shore) from The Lord of the Rings
My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): I Swear (Gary Baker)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): Diamonds are Forever (John Barry) from James Bond
My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): Follow the Yellow Brick Road (Harold Arlen) from The Wizard of Oz
My Journey with the Trumpet (Cornet Cover): For Your Eyes Only (Bill Conti) from James Bond
My Journey with the Trumpet (Trumpet Cover): Live and Let Die (Paul & Linda McCartney)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Trumpet Cover): Live and Let Die (Paul & Linda McCartney)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Trumpet Cover): If I Only Had a Brain – (Harold Arlen)
The Music Hour: Rossini's William Tell Overture – Final
By far the best performance I’ve seen of this beautiful composition by Rossini; great/vibrant sound & most certainly great conducting. Hope you enjoy and if not please don’t tell me about it 🙂 Orchestra: The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Myung-whun Chung
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet (Trumpet Cover): Hedwig's Theme – Harry Potter (John Williams)
My Journey with the Trumpet (Trumpet Cover): Double Trouble – from Harry Potter (John Williams)
My Journey with the Trumpet (PlayAlong): Cavatina (Stanley Myers)
My Journey with the Trumpet: Love Theme – The Godfather (Nino Rota)
My Journey with the Trumpet: The Music of the Night (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
My Journey with the Trumpet: The Hanging Tree (Marty Robbins)
My Journey with the Trumpet: Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber) – PlayAlong
My Journey with the Trumpet: High Chaparral (Harry Sukman)
My Journey with the Trumpet: Largo – New World Symphony (Antonín Dvořák)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: Fantasia on La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) – Jean Baptiste Arban (PlayAlong)
My Journey with the Trumpet: Norwegian Wood (The Beatles) – James Last Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: Dramatic Theme (Elias Rahbani) – Elias Rahbani Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: La Promenade (Elias Rahbani) – Elias Rahbani Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: The Escape (Elias Rahbani) – Elias Rahbani Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: Gabriel's Oboe (Ennio Morricone) – Pure Tunes – (Solo)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: Love Words (Elias Rahbani) – Elias Rahbani Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: Hopeless Love (Elias Rahbani) – Elias Rahbani Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet and Piccolo Trumpet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but […]
Read MoreA BREXIT Nugget: An Animated Political Rant by a Respected BBC Presenter; Andrew Marr
Here’s the BBC’s former political editor airing his personal views and dressing them up as political fact. Of course, Brexiteers will continue to claim ‘BBC left-wing bias’ but this reads more like a UKIP manifesto. pic.twitter.com/88VXBletsQ — DAVID PICKWORTH (@david_pickworth) April 21, 2019 Now I’ve been following Andrew Marr over […]
Read MoreHearts & Minds in Sri Lanka
Another cowardly attack by Muslim terrorists, this time on a holy site and during a holy period; this is truly disgusting beyond expression but no longer surprising. It is also a reminder of the global reach of terrorism and the need to uproot this ideology altogether not only via security […]
Read More“Democrats” Don’t Unwittingly Torpedo the Mueller Report (updated)
Plenty of analysis now going on over the Mueller Report and rightly so but the concern is where the United States media & congress hit the “Analysis Paralysis” yet again and the only winner in this situation would be Donald Trump Inc. I am not really interested in using this […]
Read MoreNotre Dame Cathedral on Fire
Very shocking to watch one of the icons of France go into flames. My heart goes to the people of this great/proud nation on this very emotional moment; a moment I am certain that is shared by many around the world, but in my mind the symbols of France run […]
Read MoreMy Journey with the Trumpet: L'amour est Bleu (André Popp) – Paul Mauriat Orchestra (Play Along)
Play Along Tunes for the Trumpet, Flugelhorn & Cornet (Best to Use Headphones): Note these videos are more for training/tracking my own progress. Also for me it’s more about technique rather than sophisticated audio recording, so you can bet I will do my best on that front but I suspect it […]
Read MoreBREXIT Syndrome: The BREXIT Party, Wow, What a "Party" (updated)
Oh, wow, now we finally have a BREXIT Party along the lines of the Referendum Party created by James Goldsmith – a Eurosceptic – in 1994 where the sole objective of the party was for a referendum to be held on the nature of the UK’s membership of the European […]
Read MoreBREXIT Nightmares: The EU Goes for the Nuclear Option!
After much deliberation the EU finally decides to go for the nuclear option hitting us with firm unanticipated exit card, a Halloween card. Well at least we can fall off the BREXIT cliff on a high note, though when it comes to the celebrations I would expect us all to […]
Read MoreJulian Assange, Busted!
While I have absolutely no sympathy for Wikileaks founder I find this latest development rather puzzling particularly have listened to the Ecuadorian President’s here reasons behind withdrawing the Asylum status from Julian Assange. Most of the reasons given with regards to continuing relations between Julian Assange & Wikileaks and the […]
Read MoreBREXIT: A Question of National Security
This is going to be short and simple one and will be more in the form of a question rather than an answer. Again it is about that damn old BREXIT nugget but not so much the politics of BREXIT but rather the security vulnerabilities it opens and how it […]
Read MoreBREXIT Pain: Theresa May Bites the Dust – Yet Again – but it’s the Country that Continues to Pay the Ultimate Price
The EU has all but turned down Theresa May appeal for a short extension until end of June while proposing an extension until December 2019 – I guess her “appeal” is wearing off where the EU is concerned. So in simple terms this latest humiliation translates to the fact that […]
Read MoreA BREXIT Nugget: Oh Mark Francois, What a Tangled Web You Weave
"If you now try to hold us in against our will, you will be facing Perfidious Albion on speed." Conservative Brexiteer Mark Francois says the UK "will become a Trojan horse within the EU" if Theresa May is given a Brexit extension. pic.twitter.com/KiulbKoBCP — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) April 9, […]
Read MoreBREXIT FEVER: When does Article 7 (The Suspension Clause) of the EU Treaty Come into Play
Here is the problem we face today with this never-ending BREXIT saga; An utterly broken political system that cannot provide any solution for BREXIT because as mentioned in many of my previous posts – a policy that starts with a flawed process cannot provide nothing but a temporary/flawed solution. The […]
Read MoreBREXIT Shambles: Theresa May asks for Another BREXIT Extension & Donald Tusk Wisely Suggests a Flextension
Theresa May is now asking the EU for another BREXIT extension until June 30 (i.e. picking numbers out of the hat yet again), while Donald Tusk wisely suggests a longer extension that can end once national consensus is achieved on the deal (or a deal); a “Flextension” if you like […]
Read MoreBREXIT Exhaustion: Iain Duncan Smith is Appalled (updated)
Iain Duncan Smith is appalled because the government is trying to reach out to the main opposition party and others to help achieve a consensus on BREXIT – something she should have began with even before triggering article 50. I am appalled that Iain Duncan Smith does not understand that […]
Read MoreBREXIT Exhaustion: Theresa May to Meet Jeremy Corbyn in the Final Attempt to Save BREXIT – a move that has BREXIT Hardliner's Steaming
It seems that Theresa May’s hand is almost out of cards so she’s forced into a make-or-break choice in meeting with Jeremy Corbyn a move that seems to have set her party BREXITEERs on fire. Now I’ve mentioned in the previous post – and indeed in many previous posts – […]
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