Slideshow: Tim Leopold (trumpet) and Ben Herrington (trombone) warming up at Budapest Airport. Copyright: Matthias Wurz
Today, I was traveling from Vienna via Budapest to Odessa in the Ukraine. I have been to this city now three times, it is my fourth stay now. Usually, I fly from Budapest, so today was no difference. However, once I checked in and passed security at Ferihegy Airport, Terminal 2, I started strolling around in the building. Not that it has significantly changed in the past six weeks, far from it.
But once I reached the more quieter part of Gates 11 to 19, I could hear the faint sound of a trumpet. I wasn’t sure whether this was some kind of music played over loudspeakers, so I investigated. To my surprise, there were two musicians sitting in the waiting area, who turned out to be Tim Leopold (Trumpet) and Ben Herrington (Trombone) from the New York-based Meridian Arts Ensemble, a brass quintet and one percussionist, on their way to Timisoara, Romania. Read the rest of this entry »
