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A show of brass
By JOHN FLEMING
Published October 5, 2006
Robert Smith and Kenneth Brown, principal and assistant principal trumpet, respectively, are the soloists in Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets in C major in the orchestra's first masterworks program Saturday and Sunday. "The same concerto 400 times" was Stravinsky's putdown of Vivaldi's many works in the form, but this is his only one for trumpet. Written for the Baroque clarino trumpet, it will be played by Smith, left, and Brown on high-pitched piccolo trumpets, smaller than the instruments pictured here. "The piccolo trumpet offers a different challenge," Smith says. "It's not harder or easier; it's just very different. It allows us to play with a lighter sound." Complementing the Vivaldi are a pair of 16th century Canzoni for antiphonal brass by another Italian composer, Giovanni Gabrielli. The rest of the concert will be Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) to commemorate the centennial of the Russian composer's birth Sept. 25, 1906. Music director Stefan Sanderling conducts. Performances are at 8 p.m. Saturday at Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. $17-$52. - JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
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