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Outrageously Flamboyant

Christian Lindberg as trombonist,
composer and conductor -
recommended by
RON BIERMAN

'... an extraordinary character ...'

Christian Lindberg - The Total Musician. © 2008 BIS Records AB

Christian Lindberg is indeed 'the total musician' and exceptional in every branch of music he has taken on. Not satisfied with being arguably the world's best trombonist (more than eighty concertos have been written for him), he has become a fine composer and, most recently, a hard-working conductor. But wait, as they say during TV infomercials, there's more! And that enthusiastically hammy 'more' sometimes keeps him from being taken as seriously as he might otherwise be.

Here's an outrageously flamboyant excerpt from the finale of Lindberg's performance of Jan Sandström's Motorbike Trombone Concerto...

Copyright © 4 August 2011 Ron Bierman,
San Diego, USA

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