Tony, front and second left, as a young musician with his own ensemble the Parsons PlayersTony Parsons, a former principal trombonist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, confessed that his journey to musical stardom had begun in the school cupboard. “I’m not a trombonist through destiny or fate,” he told BBC Radio Suffolk in 2014, relaying how his music teacher at Alderman Newton School in Leicester had chanced upon a cupboard filled with rusting brass instruments. Tony, the last boy to sign up, discovered on reaching the cupboard that the only instrument left was the trombone. No one in his family was musical, so Tony, intrigued by his trombone, went alone to concerts at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester. While listening to the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, he enjoyed the…

Source: The Times June 21, 2019 23:03 UTC