[Choir] Trumpet solo you might want to hear/watch on short video

[Stephen Finner]

That is beautiful. It's interesting that her embouchure placement is
unusual for a trumpet which is normally center lip. However her placement
is perfect for the shofar. Maybe we can recruit her for the high holidays
next fall��

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 9:52 AM Brenda J Bean via Choir <
choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> My friend Helen Everson sent this to me in an email with a subject matter
> titled “beautiful and haunting,” which the music certainly is.
>
> Information she sent me included: “*SILENZIO'...BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING*
>
> About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301
> American soldiers who died in "Operation Market Garden" in the battles to
> liberate Holland in the fall/winter of 1944. Every one of the men buried in
> the cemetery, as well as those in the Canadian and British military
> cemeteries, has been adopted by a Dutch family who mind the grave, decorate
> it, and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted. It is even
> the custom to keep a portrait of "their" soldier in a place of honour in
> their home.
>
> Annually, on "Liberation Day," memorial services are held for "the men who
> died to liberate Holland." The day concludes with a concert. The final
> piece is always "Il Silenzio," a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch
> and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of Holland's liberation.
> It has been the concluding piece of the memorial concert ever since.
>
>
> This year the soloist was a 13-year-old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed
> by André Rieu and his orchestra (the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands).
> This beautiful concert piece is based upon the original version of taps and
> was composed by Italian composer Nino Rossi.
>
> Wait until the last note is reached.”
>
>
>
> You might want to listen to and watch the short video linked below (Brenda
> Bean):
>
>
>
> http://www.flixxy.com/trumpet-solo-melissa-venema.htm
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