East Meets West, The Russian Trumpet Tradition from the Time of Peter the Great to the October Revolution, with a Lexicon of Trumpeters Active in Russia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Edward Tarr has been published by Pendragon Press and is now available for purchase. This new book is a narrative of the Russian trumpet tradition from around 1700 to 1917. There follows a thorough discussion of German emigrants to Russia, as well as Russian emigrants to the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It includes a history of Russian players, instruments, and style. It also includes an extensive annotated list of trumpet performers and teachers, both Russian-born and immigrants, who made significant contributions to Russian trumpet playing from its early stages through today. With over 500 pages and more than 100 illustrations, East Meets West is the first book on the Russian trumpet tradition published in English. For more information, see the Pendragon Press web site.

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