[speaker001:] Well, what kind of music do you like?
[speaker002:] Well, seeing as how I'm a musician [LAUGHTER], I like all kinds of music.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] All very very kinds.
[speaker001:] Me too. I mostly like classical and jazz.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. Well, I like everything from hard core country to you know Wagner, and Mahler and I like new age stuff. I, I basically have a wide range of musical likes. Do you, uh, [NOISE] are you musical, uh, are you a musician at all?
[speaker001:] Yeah [NOISE]. I play the trumpet.
[speaker002:] Do you [music]?
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Mostly the trumpet music [NOISE] uh, uh, uh, baroque and, uh, uh, uh [music],
[speaker002:] Jazz.
[speaker001:] Romantic. Baroque and romantic.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that is not, there is, uh, things written for Doc Severenson and, uh, a few other people. But, uh, [NOISE] they are just, uh, as far as solos and concertos are concerned, but the rest of them are just parts [NOISE].
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] And, uh,
[speaker002:] Well, I love baroque music, so, it is one of my favorite periods.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] In fact I [throat clearing] I sing with a Texas baroque ensemble.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh [dishes]. Who are the trumpet players?
[speaker002:] Well, we used to have, uh, Ralph Dutchen.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] But now he is in Massachusetts. He has come back a couple of times. Then there is a trumpet player at North Texas, the, the teacher, the main teacher.
[speaker001:] Leonard.
[speaker002:] Yeah [throat clearing]. And he has played. And the two of them have played natural trumpets [throat clearing]. And occasionally, when she can't get those people, we use you know, just uh, E flat trumpets, with valves and like Glen Bell plays.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Uh, Rick, uh, Bogarts played
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] [Dishes] too so [NOISE], but actually, I like trumpet and organ together. It is a nice combination.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Richard Jung Julio recorded [music] an album at the same time as, didn't he?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I think he did.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] With Paul. Yeah [NOISE]. He is wonderful. Both of them are.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh [NOISE].
[speaker002:] So do you like romantic music?
[speaker001:] Well, that is what, that is mostly the rest of good trumpet marks are romantic music, Mahler and Ruckner and Strauss [music].
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [NOISE]. Do you like opera?
[speaker001:] Uh, I like, I am liking it more and more now.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Getting use to it [NOISE].
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] They are mostly, uh, mostly Mozart.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I mean [NOISE] there is not any kind of trumpet parts, but, uh, you know, the, I just like the melodies more
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, libretto.
[speaker002:] You don't like Puccini?
[speaker001:] Uh, yeah. I like Rossini better than Puccini.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I like more comic licks.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. Are you going to go see the Elixir of Love?
[speaker001:] No.
[speaker002:] Do you ever go to the Dallas Opera?
[speaker001:] Uh, no I have never been to a Dallas Opera only the Fort Worth Opera [NOISE].
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And my trumpet teacher used to play in the Fort Worth Opera.
[speaker002:] Who was your trumpet teacher?
[speaker001:] John Nelson.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. I know him, I kind of know him.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Is he still around here?
[speaker001:] Yeah, he plays in the Fort Worth Symphony and Fort Worth mostly.
[speaker002:] Because I don't, I have not seen him playing anywhere lately, but maybe it is cause he is playing in Fort Worth [NOISE].
[speaker001:] Yeah. Yeah.
[speaker002:] Well, I am basically a Church musician. I do a Church in Plano.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And we do all [NOISE] kinds of music at my Church and we hire lots of instrumentalists off and on for, uh, different things. So, I am always making music [dishes] of one kind or another.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Which Church is it?
[speaker002:] The Christ United Methodist Church in Plano [NOISE].
[speaker001:] It seems like a lot of Churches are hiring more musicians now than they use to.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Most Churches have the, well there are some of the few organizations that have the funds to, uh, you know, do like big big works [music]. Uh, but we hire, you know, we hire an orchestra at least twice a year [NOISE] and then different instrumentalists off and on through out the year. In fact, we have, do you know John Qumenato?
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] He plays at our Church a lot. In fact he is playing this Sunday [throat clearing] at our Church. But he plays pretty regularly.
[speaker001:] He is still teaching at Brookhaven, [dishes] isn't he?
[speaker002:] Uh, I think so. He teaches a lot in Plano at high schools [rattling]
[speaker001:] Uh, yeah.
[speaker002:] and, I think he teaches at Brookhaven.
[speaker001:] Yeah, because I heard Glen Bell taught at Plano as well.
[speaker002:] Yeah, Glen teaches here [NOISE] too.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] They are, the two of them are mainly pretty much the, they have cornered the market on trumpet.