[Trombone-l] Fwd: Mark McDunn (Was:51 positions of the trombone)?

[Daryl Burch]

Thanks for sharing, Bill!

I wish more of my conservatory experience had included education in  
the "business of music"--almost enough that if one of my kids wants  
to go to music school, I'm gonna make them either get a business  
degree 1st or at least minor in it!

On another note: I didn't know "crash test dummy" was part of the job  
description of trombonist.....

Cheers!
-D-

On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:01 PM, billdin at comcast.net wrote:



Hi Tom and everyone,



I studied with Mark McDunn for about 2 years when I attended DePaul  
in the early 60's. He was really a good guy to study from because he  
not only knew the horn, but he knew the music business too. I can  
remember quite a few lessons when I never got the horn out of the  
case, he just talked about his experiences in the recording business  
in Chicago and other places. Mark was an excellent "politician", in  
the musical sense of the word, and he gave me a lot to think about  
when I began to do a lot of session work in the 70's and 80's.



His 51 or 76 position thoughts were not taken terribly seriously by  
most of his students, but I think much of his intent was to get you  
used to the idea that all the notes on the horn did not lay in the 7  
basic positions, and I must say that, until I met him, I was not  
terribly conscious of that fact. Later, when I read Chris Leuba's  
book about intonation, Mark's theories began to make a lot more sense  
to me.



I was honored to be a member of the trombone ensemble that played for  
Mark's funeral and I will always remember him with fondness.



Hey Tom: I played with Bobby Christian's band too, I think in the  
early 70's. I remember that one of his job's was the highest paying  
gig I ever had, because the train (!) we were riding on to Kansas  
City piled up about 20 miles out of Chicago, and I hit the seat in  
front of me very hard with the bridge of my nose. We never made the  
gig, but I did very well (for the time) on the legal settlement.  
Hey...I could use a few more of those kind of gigs right now!



Bill Dinwiddie

billdin at comcast.net






----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Tom Izzo" <contrabasstrombone at yahoo.com>
To: "Trb. List" <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>, "Eliezer Aharoni"  
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Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:21:51 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Mark McDunn (Was:51 positions of the  
trombone)?



--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Eliezer Aharoni <eanogmus at netvision.net.il> wrote:

> From: Eliezer Aharoni <eanogmus at netvision.net.il>
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Mark McDunn (Was:51 positions of the  
> trombone)?
> To: "Trb. List" <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 8:44 PM
> Tom Izzo Wrote:
>> Mark McDunn, (no Dr, though). Was a prof/instructor at
> DePaul Univ for
>> many years, lived in River Forest, made more TV &
> radio commercials in Chi
>> than any other Trombonist. (His blowing down the slide
> filled with water
>> on Charlie the Tuna commercials is a fond memory).
>> He wrote a book on the "76 fundimental positions
> of the slide Trombone". I
>> didn't remember a 51, though.
>> He arranged many Trombone Quartets, wrote or co-wrote
> many elementary &
>> secondary solos, good at all contests, etc., died
> about 5 yrs ago.
>> That's about all I can think of off the top of my
> head.
>>
>> Tom
> Just recalled the name of his LP. Its called Trombone
> Concepts.

Yep, that's it!

> He also composed and arranged (with Bobby Christian)
> "Vincentian Trombone
> Mass" (in the spirit of St. Vincent De Paul) for
> Trombone quartet.
>

Yes, that's where I remember MM from. I played Bass Trombone & Tuba  
in Bobby Christian's band in the 60's.

Tom

> Eliezer Aharoni
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