Brass Bulletin No. 53
I / 1986
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13 articles
Original inserts
World News JournalOut of print
Brass Bulletin No. 53
I / 1986
Contents
Editorial
Homage to James Stamp
Jean-Pierre Mathez, Thomas Stevens
Behind James Stamp’s legendary teaching stood something harder to preserve: an uncommon way of listening, diagnosing and giving musicians room to rebuild themselves.
Bad Säckingen, Trumpet museum
Jean-Pierre Mathez
A romantic legend, a remarkable private collection and Edward H. Tarr’s scholarship converged in Bad Säckingen to give the trumpet a museum of its own.
Special Finland
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
In 1980s Finland, distance and long summers helped turn brass education into a national network, with Lieksa emerging as an unlikely meeting point.
Special Finland
Brass achieves academic respectability
Kauko Karjalainen
Once treated as marginal, Finland’s brass septet tradition entered academic research, challenging where folk practice ends and music history begins.
Special Finland
Lauri Ojala
Finnish trumpet virtuoso
Timo Mäkinen
A Finnish trumpet legend recalls orchestral life, the Geneva Competition, teaching, instruments and the cool-headed musicianship behind a remarkable career.
Special Finland
The brass band tradition in Finland
Holger Fransman
Finland’s brass-band tradition grew from imperial reform into a nationwide phenomenon, before an equally systematic transformation brought the era to an end.
Special Finland
A brief survey of the history of the Finnish brass music
Simo Kanerva
Finland’s brass identity grew between Russian military traditions and Western orchestral models, turning competing influences into a distinctive national voice.
Special Finland
Holger Fransman
Finnish Horn Player and Teacher
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Holger Fransman remembers the Vienna that shaped his horn playing, the rise of musical education in Finland, and encounters with Sibelius.
Special Finland
The national brass associations in Finland
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Finland’s horn and trumpet associations show how small national networks connect musicians, competitions, teaching and international exchange.
Modern editions of original 17th-century brass ensemble music
Klaus Winkler
Seventeenth-century brass music regained its place in the repertoire, but modern editions often altered the original keys, instrumentation and balance between voices.
How and why I became a musician
Edouard Gros
In Geneva on the eve of war, Edouard Gros navigates Ansermet’s demanding orchestra, summer trumpet engagements and the sudden upheaval of military mobilisation.
Instrument Makers in USA
Holton (G. Leblanc Corporation)
Stephan Suter
In Elkhorn, Wisconsin, traditional craftsmanship meets industrial production, while Holton confronts the delicate balance between innovation and musicians’ conservatism.
Instrument Makers in USA
Martin (G. Leblanc Corporation)
Stephan Suter
In 1970s Wisconsin, industrial efficiency transformed brass instrument production, yet traditional craftsmanship still had a place on the factory floor.