What will you remember from this year's Cervantino in five years?

[roberb7]

I didn't go to very many Cervantino events, but the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra concert was memorable.

Here's the story: in my late childhood/early teenagehood, I played a trumpet, before switching permanently to various types of guitars. During the course of my musical education, I learned the the modern trumpet with three valves wasn't invented until the early 1800's. The trumpets played in the time of Handel and Mozart were like the bugles used by the "bandas de guerra" that are heard here in GTO whenever there's a parade. They're not capable of playing more than five notes without great difficulty.

One way around this was to use "crooks" of different lengths to make it possible for trumpets to play in more than one key, so trumpeters in the Baroque and classical eras carried around a suitcase full of crooks.

So, although I had heard about Baroque trumpets, this concert was the first time that I had ever seen and heard them.

The trumpets used by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have a 20th century improvement; a vent hole that allows the trumpeter to alter the pitch with her thumb. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_trumpet