Atlantic Zephyrs - Gardell Simons. PER GADE in BANGKOK 1983*

PROFESSOR PER GADE, TROMBONE SOLOIST. Bangkok, THALAND 1983

PER GADE. TROMBONE SOLOIST. BANGKOK 1983.
With Siam Wind Orchestra (young players between 9 and 18 years old).

This is the "encore solo piece", after a two hours long concert with trombone solo and conducting different groups of brass and wind players in Bangkok, 1983.

One must remember this is 1983 and video recording technique had just been invented by Sony and their Betamax recorder (this recording). A standard video microphone is mounted on the video recorder, and located at the end of the concert hall. On the stage the trombone soloist is playing his solo without any microphone at all (acustic music as in classical concerts). Futher this video is a copy of a copy of a copied Betamax tape recording, and the quality of sound and picture have gone down a bit during the copying.
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All the Thai band members were only between 9 to 18 years old. - It was the first ever "Brass Work Shop" in Thailand 1983, sponsored by Thai Siam Kolakarn Music Foundation & Yamaha. - Per Gade played on his old V. Bach 42G trombone.
Professor Per Gade was invited to give this work shop and clinic for more than 100 Thai music students coming from all over Thailand, in this two weeks course, plus the final concert (this one).

The students had never before had any lessons in modern brass playing techniques such as: "breath control, embouchure development, tongue techniques, etc." and it was quite a revolution for them to be presented to this new world of "how to play a brass instruments the modern and correct way". - This was the firt time they had a trombone soloist in Thailand since the jazz musician Jack Teagarden in 1958.

Within 2 weeks professor Per Gade managed to raise the instrumental performances to a high level for all students: "Music must come before technique and mecanical skills" as he use to say, "but one must also know how to master the instrument and its techniques too".

All the participating very young musicians became the first generation of fine brass and woodwind players in Thailand. - Today most of them are respected teachers and performers in Thailand.
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This solo piece for trombone and Wind band:
Is called "Atlantic Zephyres". It is written by Gardel Simon (who was the principal trombone player at Philidelphia Orchestra in the 1920's). The music is from a time in USA's history (approximately 100 years ago), where Sousa's band, Arthur Pryor's Wind Band and other bands and soloists were very popular, also performing at the Summer Park Concerts.

On Per Gade:
Per Gade was born in Denmark in 1944. He made his professional career abroad, first in Englanad, then USA and later in Japan and all over Asia (see his CV on Facebook: Per Gade. Professor, as well ass on the web site: qualitymusicpress.com

PER GADE was invited to Japan in 1978 for a position as professor of music. Here he spend 11 years, simultainously performing all over Asia as a trombone soloist and conductor, in concerts, on television & radio, with piano, organ bands, string orchestras and with symphony orchestras, as well as giving work shops & clinics for fine professional brass musicians and music students on all brass instruments from trumpet, horn, trombone, baritone/euphonium to tuba.

This concert was "one on a string" taking Per Gade through Taiwan, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand over a period of severl weeks. At this concert in Bangkok he is very sick. He go infected with "hepatitis B" on this tour, but had to go on with his shows and obligations untill the end. After this concert tour he was hospitalized in Tokyo only a week later and was in the bed for over 2 months (almost died). It took him most of a year to recover from this hepatitis B infection, before he again could continue a normal life, as well as a trombone soloist.

THIS IS A VERY RARE RECORDING with PROFESSOR PER GADE, never published before and only found recently.
It is not the best recording he have done, but one showing his performance from pedal notes, lip trill, and with a arpeggio-lip-slurs at the end from high Ab going up to double high Eb. He is using "single tongue technique" all the time through the piece..., and very important: here in a performance with many great young Thai music students between 9 and 18 years old, at a turning point in Thai music life and a great musical development.

OUR GREETINGS TO THE GREAT PEOPLE FROM THAILAND AND THE GREATEST KING IN THE WORLD: THE KING OF THAILAND!!!!
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This version of the master video is up ON INTERNET AND YOU TUBE from September 2011.