Anyone know where I can find an MP3 trumpet performance of "Willow Echoes" by Frank Simon? That's my daughter's solo for this year. It's specified as being for cornet/baritone/trombone.
She got a 1 on it at District last Friday so we're going on to State in a month.
The piano part is a LOT less sadistic than Goedicke's "Concert Etude" that we did last year, but the trumpet part is really something else. There's a part in it (last page on my part) where she picks up the speed to a ridiculous level and is playing something like 24 notes per measure when I'm doing about 2 chords per measure and barely keeping up with her. The band director was turning pages for me and commented later that he noticed I was supressing chuckling on that page. Can't help it. She just takes off at a pace that I can't believe I'm hearing a 16-year old girl play. Every time I dive into that page going full-bore I find I'm still struggling to keep up and it cracks me up because my part is so simple compared to hers.
Oh, there was only the judge and one other person in the room, so not the audiences other players were getting with applause, and she definitely prefers audiences.
At the very end of the song, the only feedback was "Wow!". In addition to the knuckled high five I gave her for the first time after a competitive performance. She nailed it! When we got out of the room I asked whether it was the judge who said that or the other kid in the room. Turned out it was the kid. But quite a crowd had accumulated outside the room and she was greeted with applause when she opened the door. The band director from the host school hugged her and said "You're an amazing trumpet player!" She got lots of hugs and praise.
Oh, she said the 1 she got was cheapened a bit, though. Earlier she heard someone playing the song she played last year. But at half the speed she'd played it and still messing it up, but they got a 1.
