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2 unusual facts about Edna White


Edna White

At 11, after an invitation from Frank Damrosch, she entered the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School) in New York City, where, under the instruction of Adolphe Dubois, she switched from the cornet to the trumpet.

In later years she wrote a manual on trumpet technique, and wrote several works for the trumpet, including Suite for Solo Trumpet and Symphony Orchestra (1980), which was recorded by Gaeton Berton with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and On Taming the Devil’s Tongue (1982).



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