[Dixielandjazz] Fw: [TPIN] Uninvited Olympic Trumpeters

[Bob Romans]

Not OKOM, but a great story...many of you might know the two trumpet players
in this story...
Bob Romans
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Because I play trumpet, I envy no man!
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From: <RDALEOLSON at aol.com>
To: <TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:40 PM
Subject: [TPIN] Uninvited Olympic Trumpeters


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>         One incident related to the Olympics and trumpet playing deserves
to
> be recounted and established as a very true, though highly unusual,
situation
> in which two uninvited trumpet players were given a standing ovation by a
huge
> Olympic audience.
>
>     This occurred during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.  As recounted to
> me, the band, or recorded music, only played the first 16 measures of "The
Star
> Spangled Banner", cadencing at that point, leaving only a truncated
version of
> our National Anthem.
>
>     Two trumpet players, attending the Games from the United States, took
> exception with what they, and many others, perceived to be an
inappropriate
> rendition of this highly patriotic composition.  They attended one very
special,
> but unrecalled, event, in which the United States was expected to receive
the
> Gold Medal.  With them, they carried their trumpets.
>
>     The United States indeed did win the Gold as expected, and the foreign
> band/recording predictably played their Reader's Digest version of "The
Star
> Spangled Banner".  As the music concluded, all in the stadium again took
their
> seats, and the Games were about to resume.  They were, however,
interrupted.
> The two trumpet players stood high in the rear of the stadium, and began
to play
> the remainder of The Star Spangled Banner!  As they played, the entire
> stadium became quiet, with the Americans in the audience singing, and the
other
> nationalities standing quietly in respect, but all watching the two small
figures
> at the very top of the stadium.
>
>     The Olympic audience had been treated to an unscheduled performance by
> two uninvited trumpet players who just happened to be the best of the
Hollywood
> studios, and possibly two of the finest players in the world at the time,
> Manny Klein and Uan Rasey.
>
>     The story was documented in printed media, which I am sure may be
> researched.  Although I had heard the story years before, I had it
confirmed late one
> night, over Jim Beam and 7-Up, in my hotel room in Denver, Colorado, at
one
> of the original National Trumpet Symposia in the late 1960's or early
1970's.
> The others in the room were Bud Brisbois, Don Ellis, Bill Chase, and the
> narrator/perpetrator himself, Manny Klein.
>
> R. Dale Olson
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