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- An award given to CICD in 1999 by the Eureka High School Native American Club.
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- Image
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Creator:
- Cline, Gilbert
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- Trumpet Consort von Humboldt focuses on the baroque trumpet -- having no valves or any moving parts -- and a rich tradition of centuries of music for trumpet. This “whole consort” uses replica trumpets made by David Edwards (London) of the 1667 English trumpet in copper and silver by Simon Beale. TCvH has also used trumpets in Bb and C, low F, high D and Eb, and piccolo Bb and A. TCvH joined Oregon's Jefferson Baroque Orchestra in a rare performance of Handel's “Royal Fireworks Music” and has assisted in concerts in Sacramento and in Davis. An ongoing quest has been to perform, as brass players did so famously in the old days, from civic towers, so TCvH has performed from towers on the campuses of U. C. Berkeley and Stanford, in both cases also with carillon. Dr. Cline gained practical experience in baroque trumpet performances, often as a soloist, with Seattle Baroque, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque (Los Angeles), Trinity Consort (Portland), Jefferson Baroque Orchestra (Ashland), San Francisco Bay Area ensembles Magnificat and American Bach Soloists, the Oregon Coast Festival, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. Instrument of the court and professional guilds, the true trumpet (7-to-8 foot folded trumpet) uses the upper two octaves of the harmonic series. This long trumpet is the one employed in works by Bach, Handel, and so many others up until the time of Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn -- when the clarinet (a name deriving from the high “clarino” trumpet) usurped the trumpet as a prominent wind instrument. TCvH achieves authentic sounds by not using nodal vent holes found on other baroque trumpets used by many professionals, and enjoys playing one-handed. Other TCvH elements are use of specialized baroque trumpet mouthpieces (different from modern ones) with a much larger throat (hole/bore) and a larger shank and outlet, and tuning bits and crooks. Our Beale trumpets, like genuine old trumpets, have no venturi/taper; except for the bell flare they fit the acoustical descriptor of being cylindrical, unlike modern trumpets and other baroque trumpet replicas.
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- Image
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Creator:
- Cline, Gilbert, Director
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- Humboldt Bay Brass Band (HBBB) is comprised of the U.K. standard two dozen brass players and three percussionists, and performs a wide variety of music: middle ages, renaissance, baroque, and up to contemporary and cutting edge. Unlike other so-called “brass bands,” a true brass band has no woodwinds, and all brass parts (even tubas, called basses) are in treble clef; as with saxophone, players may easily switch instruments, using consistent fingerings. The conical cornet, facile and light, is employed for the highest parts -- serving much the same role as violin in orchestra, or flute and clarinet in (wood) wind bands. This formulaic instrumentation (analogous to symphony orchestra or jazz big band) ensures good tonal balance, is required for competitions, and is useful for ready availability of published music. Band programming in the U.K. tends to be polarized toward crowd pleasers (marches, orchestral transcriptions, etcetera) on one end, with difficult test pieces on the other end. HBBB explores these extremes and is adding a body of locally-produced works, including original compositions, editions of early music, and arrangements of historical music pertaining to Humboldt County -- arranged, edited, and composed by Dr. Cline. HBBB was formed after an inspiring 2002 sabbatical trip to England to museums, instrument collections, the Royal Northern Conservatory, trumpet makers, brass bands (both observing and playing with), and the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain at Royal Albert Hall in London. Both HSU and community brass players (including George Ritscher, who possesses a brass band music library far exceeding what HSU owned) subsequently expressed interest in forming a brass band. Established in 2003, HBBB recorded a full length audio CD, has been featured on local access TV broadcasts and also on a world-wide-web pod cast, and has presented many concerts. Meeting for Fall and Spring ten-week seasons, members include HSU students and other leading brass players from Eureka, Fortuna, Ferndale, and Redway to the south, and Crescent City and Brookings, Oregon to the north.
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- Image
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
