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(Leroy Anderson)
This piece for solo trumpet and orchestra was written
in 1949 in Woodbury, Connecticut, as a commission from the trumpeter Roger
Voisin. The idea for the
commission had come after a meeting with Roger Voisin and Arthur Fiedler
when Leroy Anderson was emplyed as an arranger for the Boston Pops
Orchestra and he decided that as there had not been a lullaby for trumpet
written before, he would compose one.
The trumpet plays a quiet melody with the peaceful lullaby being
supplied by the orchestra in the background. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra with Roger
Voisin playing the solo trumpet premiered it in May 1950. That same group
of people recorded it first in June 1950 and then three months later Leroy
Anderson would also record it.
Artists including Al Hirt, Susan Slaughter and Rafael Mendez have
made subsequent recordings.
Leroy Anderson and his Symphony Orchestra recordings
MCA MCAD-9815-B (CD: The Leroy Anderson Collection)
Cologne Radio Orchestra recordings
Laser Light 15 248 (CD: Symphonic Pops/Blue Tango)
Conductor - Pinchas Steinberg
Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra recordings
Mercury 434 376-2 (CD: Fennell Conducts the Music Of
Leroy Anderson and Eric Coates)
Conductor -
Frederick Fennell
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra recordings
RCA 9026 68048-2 (CD: The Typewriter)
Conductor - Leonard
Slatkin
Sources:
- http://www.pbs.org/sleighride/Video&Music/Compositions_TrumpetLullaby.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trumpeter%27s_Lullaby
- http://www.leroyanderson.com/html/hearthemusic.htm
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