Charles Schlueter: Retrospective - A Life in Trumpet Set
Product Description The Trumpet Shall Sound! This retrospective set featuring Charlie Schlueter covers a wide range of moods and styles: Bravura and virtuosic, poignant and evocative, solo trumpet and chamber music, and trumpet featured as soloist with both orchestral and wind ensemble accompaniment. Charlie Schlueter was one of the world’s greatest orchestral principal trumpeters for over four decades, culminating in positions with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared worldwide as soloist, teacher and clinician, and many of Charlie’s former students in Cleveland, Minneapolis and Boston have gone on to have their own successful careers. Essays by former students and colleagues that beautifully attest to Charlie’s character and accomplishments as a teacher, musician, trumpet player and human being appear in the appendix of his just-released book, Indirection. The Charles Schlueter Foundation continues to celebrate and preserve the trumpet’s cultural and artistic heritage, commission works for brass instruments, promote music performance and education, support professional achievement and international collaboration, and encourage young musicians by providing lessons, master classes and workshops. As a performer, teacher and friend, Charlie’s authenticity, empathy and insight are a unique set of traits that have touched the lives of many people. Humor―that most important human quality―is so abundantly present in Charlie. It’s easy to understand how listeners fall in love with Charlie’s sound. A musician’s sound tells you who they are―and since Charlie is a tremendously honest, caring and secure person, he and his sound will always be one and the same. And what a sound! At its most focused, it seems to coalesce into a shimmering river, equal parts core and resonance, the substance of which is like a bridge that can carry thousands of tons and is built to carry a million more―a sound that can leave listeners astonished, with all of their molecules resonating in perfect alignment. He’s also a master of dynamic range, from a dominating fortissimo to the most gossamer of pianissimi. If the world were full of such people, traits such as gender, age, skin color, physical appearance, history and ethnic background would mean nothing, and we’d all be making music together. In Charlie’s teaching, he conveys to his students the most fundamental principles regarding “wind and song,” using his own Zen approach, and he’s always attended many of his students’ recitals. Charlie possesses the greatest gift a teacher can have: The ability to see each student for who they are. His ownership of the concepts of note shape, phrasing, musicality and sound quality are seminal and transformative. Charlie Schlueter has been and continues to be a force for beauty and love in the world, exemplifying the words of Emerson: The only true gift is a portion of thyself. It’s a beautiful thing when someone so giving has such an extraordinary amount to give. About the Artist Trumpeter Charles Schlueter began playing trumpet at age ten in Du Quoin, Illinois, where he studied with Charles Archibald, Don Lemasters, Ed Brauer and Mel Siener. Schlueter received his Bachelor of Science degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with William Vacchiano, eventually becoming principal trumpet of the Juilliard Orchestra. To support himself during his time in New York, he worked odd jobs, sang in church choirs and freelanced with orchestras and Latin bands. After graduation, he performed in the orchestra at Radio City Music Hall, toured with the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra and performed in Hyannis, Massachusetts, at the Cape Cod Melody Tent. Schlueter joined the Kansas National Guard in 1963 and served six years, transferring to the US Army Reserve in Wisconsin in 1964 and the Ohio National Guard in 1967. His first orchestral position was as principal trumpet with the Kansas City Philharmonic, followed by three years as principal trumpet with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and five years in the Cleveland Orchestra. He then won the position of principal trumpet with the Minnesota Orchestra, where he remained for nine years before becoming principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1981. In addition to Schlueter’s four-decade career as an orchestral trumpeter, he taught trumpet at the New England Conservatory of Music for over three decades. His 2021 book, Indirection, lists nearly 170 students he instructed in Cleveland, Minneapolis and Boston. Schlueter also taught and coached hundreds of other musicians as an instructor at the Tanglewood Music Center, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Schlueter toured the globe with the BSO, both as principal trumpet and as a member of the BSO Chamber Players. For many years, he was a visiting professor at Kurashiki-Sakuyo University in Japan, and he continues to teach, perform and give master classes in Brazil, where in 1988 he helped to create the Northeastern Brazil Brass Master Classes in João Pessoa, subsequently expanded to São Luis, Recife and Belém. In 2001, he established the Charles Schlueter Foundation to foster the enjoyment of music, promote music education, assist in the training of young brass performers, encourage fine brass pedagogy and commission new music for brass.
Hawthorne String Quartet  (Artist),     Paul Jenkins  (Artist),     Deborah DeWolf Emery  (Artist),     Lawrence Wolfe  (Artist),     Eric Berlin  (Artist),     Charles Schlueter  (Artist),     James Sommerville  (Artist),     Ronald Barron  (Artist),     William Sperandei  (Artist),     James Tinsley  (Artist),     Joel Moerschel  (Artist),     James Stephenson  (Composer),     Arthur Honegger  (Composer),     Eric Ewazen  (Composer),     Paul Hindemith  (Composer),     Francis Poulenc  (Composer),     Igor Stravinsky  (Composer),     Camille Saint-Saëns  (Composer),     Johann Nepomuk Hummel  (Composer),     Robert Suderburg  (Composer),     Yves Chardon  (Composer),     Otto Ketting  (Composer),     Jean Hubeau  (Composer),     James Patrick Miller  (Conductor),     Norman Bolter  (Conductor),     Ronald Feldman  (Conductor),     Kazuyoshi Akiyama  (Conductor)    &                   23                  more   Format: Audio CD
{"Package Dimensions": "5.59 x 4.88 x 0.98 inches; 6.42 Ounces", "Manufacturer": "MSR Classics", "Date First Available": "August 8, 2022", "Label": "MSR Classics", "Number of discs": "3"}