[Dhsbb-jazz] Mark Inouye - One of our Davis HS Grads

[Horn, John A]

September 27, 2011
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By Janos Gereben<http://www.sfcv.org/author/janos-gereben>
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Inouye's Trumpets to Cheer Melancholy Giants
This should be close to the (slightly broken) hearts of San Franciscans. It’s about musical support for the
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Mark Inouye performing in Stern Grove
once-and-future World Champion Giants, last year’s Cinderella team, no longer in the running for the postseason<http://tinyurl.com/4ybj4o8>, as of last weekend.

Students of the city’s Conservatory of Music will serenade the Giants tonight, before their first game without stars in their eyes. The National Anthem by 10 trumpets is the brainchild of San Francisco Symphony principal trumpet Mark Inouye, whose performances in last week’s Mahler Third Symphony were greeted as “phenomenal”<http://tinyurl.com/3upcczn> and “breathtakingly beautiful”<http://tinyurl.com/3ncnefd> ... for starters.

Inouye is an explosively multitalented young musician, equally at home with Mahler and jazz, and also a composer, teacher, and busy activist on behalf of all kinds of good (and seemingly lost) causes.

He has a special passion for the Giants, and on the SFS tour of Europe last year, he first started wearing the team’s miniature rally towel (in the breast pocket of his tux!), and then got the entire brass section to go orange.

Tonight’s appearance in AT&T Park is only the first step in Inouye’s grand plan of performing in every major sports arena in the Bay Area. He has sent audition tapes to the Sharks, Warriors, and other teams.
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Photo by Mark Inouye, taken with his right hand (while conducting with his left)

Conservatory External Affairs Manager Sam Smith ventured into some internal reporting about what Inouye has been doing:
Mark personally coached the students in preparation for the audition and performance. When he stopped by our office on Thursday afternoon prior to pick up Conservatory hoodies for the students to wear, he was on his way to work with the trumpeters one last time before the game.

A few of the students will play on herald trumpets on loan from San Francisco Opera, courtesy of Adam Luftman, principal trumpet with the Opera, friend of Mark Inouye as well as future Conservatory trumpet faculty (beginning the 2012–2013 school year).

At Mark’s initiative and expense, the Conservatory designed banners showing its logo to unfurl from the herald trumpets during the Star Spangled Banner. Mark bought a ticket for each student performer so they can stay for the duration of the game; he and co-faculty member David Burkhart will watch from the stadium’s free viewing area at the waterfront promenade.
As to all the praise heaped on him for the Mahler performances, this was Inouye’s response:
The principal trombone of the orchestra [Tim Higgins] played phenomenally all week. It’s an honor to sit next to him and to be in the middle of an incredible back row of trumpets and trombones! It was a fun week.
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