Not today, but over the weekend I made music. Six trumpets, five trombones, four French horns (cue Christmas carol jokes!), three percussionists and two tubas all met to create music and share good times.
This video is not us, but one of the pieces we played.
These two Spotify links take you to two other pieces we played (again, not us in the links):
Festmusik der stadt Wien
Feierlicher Einzug
The above pieces are all by (or based on music by) Richard Strauss - he was the main focus of our weekend. However, for a little light relief we also played an arrangement of the slow movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony for brass, and a very funky Stevie Wonder medley.
Food and company were most excellent. You could say, I suppose, that we all had a real blast
(I should add that I was playing French horn this weekend - it is my true musical love. The tuba and sousie are my brass bits on the side!!)