I took a note, “B.B Black Haydn trumpet Concerto,” on cards I carry in the car, sitting in the Safeway lot amid slush and piled snow as Janice did the shopping. Later I tried to find out more about this performer on the computer and didn’t get far until I realized I wasn’t looking for [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Trumpet treasure
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Lloyd’s Song
Posted in Trinidad, Uncategorized, tagged Trinidad on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It will always be for me Lloyd’s Song, though, for a time there, years afterwards, Lloyd was surpassed by Billy — Billy Eckstine, whose O Holy Nigh could, and did, bring on chills like that of the Christmas night air.
Lloyd FitzCharles, back in those green, un-clouded days at Arima, had the distinction of easy poverty [...]
