Chronicles - Trumpet & Organ:

The Medieval Manuscript the 'Chronicles of Mann and Sudreys' mentions various locations, including the Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and even places as far away as Norway and Brittany.

Russell Gilmour (trumpet) and David Kilgallon (organ) use melodies from these countries and they merge and fuse these ideas together with their own to create unique compositions for trumpet and organ. The idea behind their musical collaboration is to explore traditional music from these countries and to adapt the music, interpret it and explore it. Chronicles' musical format is slightly unusual in that it combines trumpet and organ - not the instruments you may initially associate with folk music - but it is an approach that has sparked a lot of interest.

Their limited edition EP "Prologue" is a sample of things to come, as the production of a full album is underway. The full album will be Chronicles' musical impression of the Isle of Man's influences and rich history - as documented in the Chronicles of Mann.

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‘Just’ Natural Trumpet Lecture Presentation - St Andrew's Thornhill Square, London

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I gave a lecture presentation about my book, ‘Just’ Natural Trumpet on Saturday 5 October 2024 at St Andrew’s church in Thornhill Square in London. The lecture was part of a natural trumpet weekend course organised by Bill Tuck. I have known Bill for many years, having first met him in 2008, even before I moved to London. Indeed one of my earliest blogs on this website was entitled ‘Tomes and Tuck’, as I gave a lecture for Bill Tuck at UCL in fifteen years ago, just after I collected my finished Frank Tomes trumpet—'the last trumpet’ Frank ever made—from Frank’s home in Wimbledon. 

The lecture I gave was tailored to the more advanced subject knowledge of these players, and so I felt free to delve deeply into various topics (also covered in the book) including the writings of James Talbot, and the 'clarino piccolo’ which was utilised (although used in different ways) by composers such as Johann Schelle, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Samuel Endler. 

I placed other books (such as facsimiles of the treatises by Bendinelli, Fantini, Altenburg, and others) in a timeline on the floor to demonstrate the chronology of the natural trumpet literature—the same chronology that formed the basic idea for my book, ‘Just’ Natural Trumpet.

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