Trombone Concerto
The trombone has been characterized as a “donkey” among horses, owing to the inherent difficulty of operating the slide with the facility that comes easily to all other instruments. And, the general demise of bands--both “big bands” and “military bands”--as important elements in American musical life has had a deleterious influence upon the instrument’s popularity. You just don’t see as many of them as you used to--even in combo jazz. Nevertheless, the trombone has long been an important part of serious music--it has been there from the late Middle Ages in the church when the trumpet was still only a military signal instrument and the French horn was still out hunting foxes. Today, it is a versatile member of the modern symphonic orchestra; the master of orchestration Hector >>>