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Christian Lindberg Live at the International Trombone Festival

The Trombone Retreat

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The Impossible Dream of a Soloist

I was 19 when I got my one-man job. The reason why I couldn't stay was actually because well, two things. If the orchestra would have been like the Metropolitan New York or something like that, I might not even have thought about doing solo career. But we had two teams, three two six-room-most and both bass-room-bone players. They're dead now, so I can say this but they were alcoholics. And I sat there, second-room- bone, trying to get chords in tune. And they were all out of tune. It reminds me of the experience of sitting on a chord. That's worse. Oh my God, second

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