Tromba Lontana

(Watch in HD) Music: John Adams - Two Fanfares for Orchestra: Tromba Lontana / Distant Trumpet (feat. trumpet: Glenn Fischthal, Laurie McGaw) John Adams: John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003), and Shaker Loops (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His well-known operas include Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_(composer) Website San Francisco Symphony: You can read info there about Glenn Fischthal and Laurie McGaw. http://www.stokowski.org/Principal_Musicians_San_Francisco_Symphony.htm#Trumpet_Index_Point_ Edo de Waart: Edo de Waart (born 1 June 1941, Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor, and the Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, and an Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. De Waart studied oboe, piano and conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatory, graduating in 1962. The following year, he was appointed associate principal oboe of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_de_Waart Buy: http://www.amazon.com/Adams-Chairman-Christian-Activity-Lontana/dp/B000005IY2 Video: Railway station Leiden Centraal, Netherlands, July 2014. Filmed from the 6th floor of the Ibis hotel. The film camera was standing on a paper box and the turning from the right to the left and vice versa was a bit difficult, but when editing I made the trains as smooth running as in reality....