Year: 2003

As I said last month, I bought my first alto trombone in 1966 and I still play it today. It is a Latzsch. I learned the positions by playing Rochut Continue Reading →

I just returned with the Chicago Symphony from a two-week tour in Japan. A friend of mine there had several nice modern and old style German trombones. Back in the Continue Reading →

This article was originally written for the ITA Journal. After a recent performance of the Sibelius Symphony no. 7 that I did with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a violist (wouldn’t you know) Continue Reading →

Something happened today that really shook me up. Remember last time I talked about how I was trying to relate my golf game to my trombone playing, hoping some of Continue Reading →

I used to play golf a lot. When I was in high school, I used to hit golf balls just about every day. Then, I would go out on the Continue Reading →