Many years ago, I went to a sing-along where the conductor announced that we would be skipping "The Trumpet Shall Sound." The one trumpeter there that evening protested, saying she'd been playing all evening -- and she had, like a trouper -- anticipating that one song, that one really great trumpet part, it would only take a few minutes, and she wouldn't get another chance for a whole year.
The conductor looked around. We were a small group. She shrugged, checked with the basses (no soloists; the sections sang the solos in unison), and did it.
The trumpeter was not a great soloist, but she wasn't horrible, and it didn't cost a lot of time to make her happy.
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Many years ago, I went to a sing-along where the conductor announced that we would be skipping "The Trumpet Shall Sound." The one trumpeter there that evening protested, saying she'd been playing all evening -- and she had, like a trouper -- anticipating that one song, that one really great trumpet part, it would only take a few minutes, and she wouldn't get another chance for a whole year.
The conductor looked around. We were a small group. She shrugged, checked with the basses (no soloists; the sections sang the solos in unison), and did it.
The trumpeter was not a great soloist, but she wasn't horrible, and it didn't cost a lot of time to make her happy.