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And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

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Manny Laureano

His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No. . . that's too much vibrato. It's like putting bright red lipstick on a beautiful woman. ' I always thought it was funny that when you broke a musical rule-like accenting a weak beat-he would turn his head away from you sharply, almost as though he were in pain. It's like you just slapped him in the face by being unmusical.

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Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage.

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He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

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