Posted by whatever... on October 22, 2003 at 16:14:12:
In Reply to: Re: Re: ISO Tongue-in-cheek unaccompanied solo posted by Doug on October 22, 2003 at 15:51:57:
This was a Master's Degree in Trumpet Performance & Composition final recital. The trumpet soloist/candidate was dressed in tails, as was the accompanist.
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- attractive blonde page-turner (another trumpet student at the school), turning pages for very prestigious accompanist. (Accompanist who had won some big piano competitions, published many compostions, and who is now teaching at a very "fancy" school)
- AFTER EACH VARIATION, the page-turner would get up, walk behind a tri-fold screen, and remove one more article of clothing.
- finally, after the "bikini" (underwear??) variation, the page-turner came out wrapped in a towel. After a few bars of the final variation, the accompanist got up and started chasing the page-turner around the Steinway. Suddenly, the tuba professor jumped out from the wings and joined in on the chase.
The curtains closed with the trumpet soloist/candidate showing a puzzled look on his face and the performance never being completed. (screams of laughter from the spectators)
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EPILOGUE
Curtains reopen less than three minutes later. (While the curtains were closed, a weird "space music" trumpet quartet is being played from the four extreme corners of the recital hall (balcony ends and and the lower floor exits) while a multicolored light show is the only thing illuminating the hall.)
As the curtains open, onstage is a "big-band"...piano/bass/drums/guitar and a 7-trumpet (only) horn section...all dressed in tuxes. The band plays about 8 bars of the "Elvis" riff when suddenly the candidate (and a buddy) come up on the front riser on the stage (wearing "rock band" clothes and singing into old heavy aluminum Shure "Elvis mic's") They sing several choruses (excellent rendition!) of "Roll Over, Beethoven" with big-band horn-line chorus riffs in-between vocal choruses.
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THE END...except for the ALCOHOL-ON-CAMPUS reception afterwards in the Music Graduate Assistants' house across the road from the School of Music.