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In Reply to: RE: Circular Breathing at the Georgia Dome posted by kitch29 on January 23, 2017 at 06:18:42
"Can we please go back to just the notes Stafford Smith wrote? "
Amen.
Ever since that really good female singer did the 'fourth' jump during the word "free" about 15 years ago (Sandy Smith?), it seems that they all have to do it. At this Inauguration singing of the national anthem, the woman singer was great, excellent, and I said to myself "please don't do it". She held the note for a while, and then did the fourth. "Damn!" I said, not in a good way.
A few top trumpet players who have performed the Star Spangled Banner at major football games in the past are Arturo Sandoval, Maynard Ferguson, and Al Hirt. I don't know, but I would guess that Doc Severinsen also has.
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The worst rendering of the anthem I've heard since the infamous Roseanne debacle of years past.
Well, I missed it at the Georgia Dome. I came in when the score was 8 billion to 0. ;)
Who performed it, and can you point me to a clip?
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Sax player named Wayne Phillips, I believe. Like so many do nowadays, he totally disrespected the piece in a feeble attempt to make it all about himself.
Our national anthem deserves respect. It should be performed as it is written. Extraordinary talent can be shown off elsewhere.
Yeah.
Although, I'll add that it doesn't even take extraordinary talent to do that - it's a pretty simple harmonic jump, unlike, say, an augmented fifth. It just has to be in a key which is in the singer's range. Beyond that, it's easy-peasy.
Extraordinary talent, or lack of, is shown with the entirety of the performance.
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