[Trombone-l] Recordings for study purposes (was Sonata by George FrederickMcKay)

[Walter Barrett]

The recording will also come in handy for your son, because he will  
know what the accompaniment sounds like. Less chance of messing up is  
always a good thing. It will also save time when he's together with  
the accompanist, because your son won't have to figure out what's  
going on in the piano part when he doesn't play. If you do get a  
recording, your son should listen to it enough so that he knows what's  
going on in the piano part almost as well as he knows the trombone part.


BTW, the Mc Kay Estate maintains a website with a contact email.  
Perhaps they may have access to a recording of the Sonata, or be able  
to point you towards one.

http://www.georgefrederickmckaymusic.com/music-books/index.html

ASCAP doesn't list any recordings of the Sonata, so I think that rules  
out finding a commercial release.


On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Robert Barron wrote:

> This year he is auditioning for All State and is
> working with an accompanist for the first time.  It is actually the
> accompanist, a professional musician, who requested that I find a  
> recording
> for him if at all possible.  (Believe me, I love my son dearly but  
> he would
> never have come up with that idea on his own!  He is just kind of an
> innocent person and it just wouldn't occur to him.)
>
> I think perhaps the accompanist was trying to catch up so he could  
> rehearse
> sooner with my son.  He was gracious enough to take this on as it  
> was beyond
> the abilities of the first accompanist we asked to do it.  So I  
> think under
> the circumstances, I need to accommodate his request if at all  
> possible.



Walter Barrett

"If you want to become phthisis-proof, drink-proof, cholera-proof,
and in short, immortal, play the trombone well and play it
constantly."
	-George Bernard Shaw

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