Lebo: Blowing His Own Horn

A recording project by Lebo resident and Symphony trumpeter Neil Berntsen is profiled in this piece in today's Post-Gazette.

The setting is a basement recording studio, one sunny afternoon this past August. Berntsen is sweating the details, trying to match his phrasing with that of a previously recorded track in a piece for multiple trumpets.

Bernstsen was the other trumpeter -- and would eventually be all the trumpeters in this ensemble piece. The idea was to see just how far technology can go in enhancing music-making.

"It has been an enormous project," Berntsen says. "I knew it would be big, but I didn't realize the scope of it. The final disc will be 70 minutes, but if I add up all the parts I play, it is five hours and 56 minutes to record! It is like putting out six CDs."

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05310/600303.stm

Buy this recording, and Neil's recordings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass (perfect for Christmas!): http://www.fourwinds-music.com/