Doc Severinsen: "La Virgen de La Macarena" - Trumpet Solo with Boston Pops, Live in July 1970

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9 ай бұрын

Arthur Fiedler conducting, Doc was the guest artist that evening. It's a great solo, usually associated with Rafael Mendez, and Doc is in his prime here!

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@waynebritton1436 9 ай бұрын

Almost every trumpet great has played this and each put there on take it. No one has ever played this with as powerful or beautiful trumpet sound as Doc. His tone has never been matched.

@tungsten8290 8 ай бұрын

I think you'd like Phil Smith!

@waynebritton1436 8 ай бұрын

@@tungsten8290 Your right, I'm a huge fan of Phil Smith. I love his sound. For what Phil does it is perfect. For what Doc did which was a little bit of everything his sound is perfect. But Doc's sound was unique.

@tungsten8290 8 ай бұрын

@@waynebritton1436 being able to hear different sounds with so much character really is a treat!

@mariehudgick254 6 ай бұрын

Amazing! Love that song!

@andrewsotelo70 4 ай бұрын

I think you would like Andrea guilfredi’s version as well :)

@rockym2931 Ай бұрын

Doc Severinsen, Arthur Fiedler, and the Boston Pops- three names without whom music would not have been the same.

@OfficiallyLost Ай бұрын

Wow, nailed every.single.note. Absolutely astounding.

@johnmcilroy6874 9 ай бұрын

Doc's sound was incredible The best all round trumpeter who ever lived I believe he is still playing .

@saufiwahid2506 3 ай бұрын

One of the most beautiful La Macarena amongst the great trumpet player in the world🎺🎺🎺

@davidyoung353 7 ай бұрын

Doc was "other worldly".... I stayed up late every night as a middle school trumpet player in the mid 70's, hoping that Carson would let Doc and the band play!!! Thank you so much for sharing this!

@jimd6641 3 ай бұрын

Same with me! I played trumpet in my high school stage band in early -70's and I also stayed up hoping to hear Doc play. I had (still have) a couple of his LP's and I tried to play along. Emphasis on "tried".

@toddlipira8726 3 ай бұрын

Me too! @@jimd6641

@jimbreakall9331 8 ай бұрын

I have listened to just about every rendition of this from very many trumpet players and nobody can do it better than Doc. His tone and power are just unmatched. He did this years after with the Cincinnati.Pops on the Telarc label and it was almost exactly the same rendition except the Boston Pops version has him hitting that double A at the end. You can find a video of him recently playing at 95 still with the same virtuosity. Again, nobody can play this piece better, not even Rafael. Those Telarc recordings of him are absolutely priceless too. Even Maurice Andre, Gilbert Johnson, Adolf Herseth, Phil Smith, David Bilger, etc. would love how Doc played this !!!!........Prof. Jim

@jvairola 13 күн бұрын

Prof. Jim - I agree with your take on this, but the absolute perfection of Mendez on the very fast runs is hard to ignore. However, Doc is my all time favorite!

@erichanson3961 8 ай бұрын

high A to double high A gliss on last note. Impossible speed passages in various places. genuine Mexican/Spanish tone at times. Masterful...

@BillSmith-rx9rm 3 ай бұрын

Ah yes, his Getzen days, when he was in his prime. I saw him live once and wish I had taken my trumpet (his Getzen model, of course) to see if I could get backstage and have him play it. But I never was one to fawn over celebrity.

@musicofnote1 3 ай бұрын

You can hear, that he needed the openness of those old Getzens. Like blowing into a black hole. Nothing for me - at that time I needed a little resistence in my horns. He's putting tons of air through the horn and not hitting the wall. Add his spotless finger technique and ... that's Doc.

@BillSmith-rx9rm 3 ай бұрын

@@musicofnote1 The Getzen is only a 460 medium large bore. Not quite a year ago I bought my first B flat trumpet since that Getzen in 1975 or 6. It is a Schilke. I was torn over which model to get, was fluctuating between an X3 (large bore) and a B6 (medium bore). I decided to go with the B6. I think I'm regretting that decision. It's a 450 bore, and I am not used to that resistance. Still trying to get used to it. I blow very hard and loud. I like the brightness of the B6, but I think I would have preferred the openness of the X3.

@musicofnote1 3 ай бұрын

@@BillSmith-rx9rm - I'm certainly not up on modern trumpets, having stopped playing in around 1988. I was a high note specialist, playing mostly piccolo and Baroque trumpet until my embouchure gave out. 10 year break from playing, concentrating on conducting and then got a teaching degree on trombone/euphonium and just retired 18 months ago from my bass trombone orchestral gig. When I was still playing I played a Bach ML 239 C with a Herseth lead pipe and a ML 43 Bach B-flat along with my Schilke P5-4 and a Scherzer B-flat/A pick - one of the first available in the west after the Berlin Wall fell. Getzen B-flats at the time were sold as being extremely free blowing and I always felt I fell into them. All my other horns had a touch of resistence. This has carried over to my bass trombone. I love Greg Black mouthpieces on my Yamaha 822g - for about 20 minutes. But they are, at the endo of the day to open for me. My Wedges however have a touch of resistence I need to blow against, espcially in the pedal register - meat and potatoes for a bass trombone.

@BillSmith-rx9rm 3 ай бұрын

@@musicofnote1 at various times I've tried to double on trombone, both slide and valve. However, because of my trumpet embouchure I had a very pinched and thin sound. And also, if I played on the trombone too long it messed up my embouchure for the trumpet. So as much as I would have liked to have played the trombone in addition to the trumpet, I finally totally gave up on the trombone and only focused on the trumpet.

@tomschlueter7034 9 ай бұрын

I don't know from where or how you get these priceless videos, but many thanks for doing it and posting it. I saw this when I was 12 years old and saw him do it live the next year. Everything Doc did made such a lasting impression on me. I still listen to him all the time and every time is like the first time. His God-given talent never ceases to amaze me.

@1222claudio 4 ай бұрын

La Virgen de la Macarena la compuso el español Bernardino Bautista Monterde (1880-1959) y le puso letra: Antonio Ortiz Calero. La versionan y arreglan todo trompetista que se precie, añadiendo adornos y florituras que desvirtuan la pieza musical. Para mi gusto como el original: ninguno. Un saludo.

@sammy2840 4 ай бұрын

He does it again! Every performance is GREAT!

@bd1845 8 ай бұрын

I’ve heard this played so many times by so many trumpet players, this is fabulous.

@vaughnnark1733 9 ай бұрын

Colossal..a true 🎁 and Treasure of all to enjoy..Vaughn 🎺

@jimbizness3864 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for another wonderful video of Doc!

@vaughnnark1733 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful performance 👏 Vaughn 🎺

@patrickcolwell4202 9 ай бұрын

Wow I'm missing the good old days to fill up that ataoream with sound and lov what a man one of my trumpet hearo

@r.j.wheels6755 3 ай бұрын

THE trumpet players, trumpet player. Doc Severinsen ladies and gentlemen.

@ElMcMeen1a 4 ай бұрын

Loving me some Doc!

@Clementesilva-kn6db 4 ай бұрын

So spectacular bravoooo Doc Severinsen!

@BT-gu5yn 18 күн бұрын

Is his playing into a microphone?

@miketemple7 9 ай бұрын

Wow Thanks for sharing this Dave!!!!!! I would love to see this whole concert!!!!!

@dwerden 9 ай бұрын

It'll be live soon (one more piece from Doc). If you are anxious to see it... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsucdZCYp7vGZ4k.html

@lizlovsdagmara5525 4 ай бұрын

"La Virgen de la Macarena" does not translatr as "Brave Bulls". It simply translates as "Ths Virgin of Macarena". It is a reference to a statue of the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Macarena to which a bullfighter named Jose Gomez Ortega attached five broches. The statue was vested in black vestments at Gomez's funeral. The Virgin of Macarena is the patroness of bullfighters.

@MuzixMaker 4 ай бұрын

I don't speak Spanish but even I know that the "translation" was nonsense.

@MuzixMaker 4 ай бұрын

Please welcome Mr. Warmth, Don Rickles!

@jimd6641 2 ай бұрын

Those were the days!

@mauricioloborodriguez2015 3 ай бұрын

Magistral!!!

@craterellus1779 7 ай бұрын

Bravoooo Doc !!!!

@ronflintjer8662 9 ай бұрын

Thank you again David, Doc did Rafaels number so beautiful, have a recording of him at the Navel School of Music performing it in 1966 when I was there, so great there too.

@patrickcolwell4202 9 ай бұрын

That's perty funny because the reamer was doc got kick out of the school of music but whan I whent though the school of music 1982 1983 it was very hard for me