Watch: Andris Nelsons goes back to the trumpet
mainThe Boston Symphony music director has taken up the instrument in public for the first time since he was in his early twenties in Latvia.
His duet partner is BSO principal trumpet, Thomas Rolfs
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Not bad at all! A good sport, too.
Nelsons was an early developer, for sure, but he definitely wasn’t a teenager when he was playing the trumpet professionally in the Latvian National Opera – he was well into his twenties!