More Newsmaker (Sidney Herald-Leader)
Sidney Lutheran Brethren Church will present Sounds of the Trumpet with Joel Finnesgard at 11 a.m. Sunday (today). A free-will offering will be taken.

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Quincy: When it comes to hip hop, Wynton Marsalis blows it (New York Daily News)
Wynton Marsalis blows a trumpet like an archangel, but Quincy Jones thinks he could still use a music lesson. The last time we ran into Jones, we complimented the winner of 27 Grammys on the way he and Marsalis have tried to wake up hip-hop artists to their jazz and blues heritage.

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The curtain rises on Cambridge House (Republican-American)
Every theatrical opening is fraught with tension. There's always a rip somewhere in the backdrop, or the lead's shoes don't quite match, or the trumpet player is stuck in traffic. As any stage manager will tell you, you can either stall until the theater's empty or put on the darn show already. "Nobody'll notice that stuff," he'll say. "Now get out there, the curtain's goin' up!"

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Director files complaint about UC Davis band (San Francisco Chronicle)
When he was hired as director of the loud, rowdy Cal Aggie Marching Band at UC Davis, nobody told Tom Slabaugh about the tradition of "naked van." But on last year's road trip to the football game with Portland State, a trumpet player yelled "naked van!" and...

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