Thank you Tom for your excellent video! As a retired Principal Trumpet player of the Swedish Radio Orchestra here in Stockholm I could truly relate to every word spoken and even at the tender age of 75 am STILL trying to achieve the results that you so masterly perform. Thanks again for you inspiration and I´m now going down to my practice room and pulling out the Caffarelli etude. Be well and stay healthy!

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Principal Trumpet of the Swedish Radio Orchestra sounds like a great gig.

Thanks for sharing this! Tom's practice pod is meant to save his neighbors from the "noise." But as his neighbor I've always been interested to hear him practice. :-) Now finally, I got to hear it! Absolutely fabulous! What a treat. Thanks, BSO, for keeping us connected even as we all distance. I can't wait to hear you all again in person some day soon.

Thank you, Tom. If you’re up for it we’d love more videos and talk!

Amazing! I'm a subscriber of the BSO concerts. Thank you for the great job you all do.

Thank you Tom for sharing your home schedule and trumpet etudes with BSO fans.

Thank you for sharing this! I am a trumpet player studying music education in college right now. I love being able to see musicians share their talents. Thank you for sharing your incredible playing!

Flatten the curve😂 good one

How absolutely pleasant to listen to that trumpet player. Well done and well spoken!

Love it! He cracks me up. Keep doing these videos please...maybe get Rolfs next ? :D

nice! my wife & I saw you with the brass quintet in Roxbury just before our pause here. Thanks for this & hope to see you at Symphony Hall before too long.

Awesome! Tom rocks!

This is excellent, and I thank this fine musician for his time. When it's a rainy weekend, you really do have a chance to get your homework done. I am grateful to the BSO and the Boston Pops for these videos--though this present situation demands a degree of solitude, it's nice to know you--and I--are not alone.

Loved the opportunity to see and hear you in your pod. I played in the jazz band in college in the early 80’s. That was the pinnacle of my trumpeter avocation. (More significant than my paid gig in a community theater pit orchestra summer of ’80 because in college our director was Herb Pomeroy!) Just this year I picked up my horn on Memorial Day and played Taps for my neighbors after many fallow years, and I was amazed I have any chops at all. I miss everything about the art of the trumpet and thank you for letting me live vicariously through you for the duration of this video.

Thanks, I really enjoyed your video. Bravo on your etude! You brilliantly navigated all of those tricky technical sections while playing the melodic section with a warm musicality. Hope you can get back to work soon.

Hope you still get to play with Mystic Brass this June. Thanks for the vid.

Interesting perspective on not playing concerts to only practicing and playing at home. I don't play trumpet but still can apply to my guitar. Good tips. Thanks. Looking forward to hearing the BSO again soon.

This was great. I enjoyed the explanation of his work day and his playing sections. How often do we get an up-close-and-personal session with an artist. Wonderful. Thank you.

Tom, is an associate 1st trumpet a FULL TIME GIG with benefits? I know Boston is not a cheap place to live, but I figure every full time player in the BSO (with 8 years experience) can afford their own house. I know in a symphony orchestra, the trumpet section is 1 to a part. Do you just fill in when the principal can't play; do you regularly play 4th trumpet or cornet, (when the piece calls for it?) I never knew how an "associate" first trumpet makes a living. Does an associate 1st trumpet have to scramble around for lots of gigs, ie. Boston Pops, and do lots of teaching to make a decent living? Wish my trumpet teacher recommended the Caffarelli's etudes when I played 50 years ago in college.