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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple id="role_body"><div class=WordSection1><div><div id=page><div id=page-inner><div id=main><div id=main-inner><div id=content><div id=content-inner><div id=content-area><div><h4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>September 27, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></h4><h1><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Music News<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>By <a href="http://www.sfcv.org/author/janos-gereben"><span style='color:#712611'>Janos Gereben</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Stay up to date with weekly classical music news from the Bay Area, across the US & around the World.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><h2><a name=anchor1></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Inouye's Trumpets to Cheer Melancholy Giants<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This should be close to the (slightly broken) hearts of San Franciscans. It’s about musical support for the <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=270 height=241 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.sfcv.org/sites/files/u19/inouyetrumpet.jpg" alt="Mark Inouye performing in Stern Grove"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Mark Inouye performing in Stern Grove<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>once-and-future World Champion Giants, last year’s Cinderella team, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4ybj4o8"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#712611'>no longer in the running for the postseason</span></strong></a>, as of last weekend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Students of the city’s Conservatory of Music will serenade the Giants tonight, before their first game without stars in their eyes. The National Anthem by 10 trumpets is the brainchild of San Francisco Symphony principal trumpet Mark Inouye, whose performances in last week’s Mahler Third Symphony were greeted as <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3upcczn"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#712611'>“phenomenal”</span></strong></a> and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3ncnefd"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#712611'>“breathtakingly beautiful”</span></strong></a> ... for starters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Inouye is an explosively multitalented young musician, equally at home with Mahler and jazz, and also a composer, teacher, and busy activist on behalf of all kinds of good (and seemingly lost) causes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>He has a special passion for the Giants, and on the SFS tour of Europe last year, he first started wearing the team’s miniature rally towel (in the breast pocket of his tux!), and then got the entire brass section to go orange.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tonight’s appearance in AT&T Park is only the first step in Inouye’s grand plan of performing in every major sports arena in the Bay Area. He has sent audition tapes to the Sharks, Warriors, and other teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=275 height=199 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.sfcv.org/sites/files/u19/Ballpark-trumpets2.jpg" alt="Photo by Mark Inouye, taken with his right hand (while conducting with his left)"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Photo by Mark Inouye, taken with his right hand (while conducting with his left)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Conservatory External Affairs Manager Sam Smith ventured into some internal reporting about what Inouye has been doing:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Mark personally coached the students in preparation for the audition and performance. When he stopped by our office on Thursday afternoon prior to pick up Conservatory hoodies for the students to wear, he was on his way to work with the trumpeters one last time before the game. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A few of the students will play on herald trumpets on loan from San Francisco Opera, courtesy of Adam Luftman, principal trumpet with the Opera, friend of Mark Inouye as well as future Conservatory trumpet faculty (beginning the 2012–2013 school year).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>At Mark’s initiative and expense, the Conservatory designed banners showing its logo to unfurl from the herald trumpets during the <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Star Spangled Banner.</span></em> Mark bought a ticket for each student performer so they can stay for the duration of the game; he and co-faculty member David Burkhart will watch from the stadium’s free viewing area at the waterfront promenade.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>As to all the praise heaped on him for the Mahler performances, this was Inouye’s response: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The principal trombone of the orchestra [Tim Higgins] played phenomenally all week. It’s an honor to sit next to him and to be in the middle of an incredible back row of trumpets and trombones! It was a fun week.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>