sweaty wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 4:44 am
This part will sound great on euphonium.
someday…If-and-when someone performs it on a euphonium.
Truth be told, I did play through it - one time each - on my compensating euphonium and on my tenor tuba… ‘ too much button mashing is involved with those. F tuba is much easier/less technical/easier slurs...little-to-no pinky finger wiggling involved, and very little third finger, either. With the tuba, I’m already ready to perform it - after playing through it a couple of times, and – due to the lower partials – I’m pretty sure I would need to go through it several more times (were I to play it with a euphonium) to smooth it out as well as It already is with the tuba.
Obviously, it sounds best when sung by a competent bass-baritone (with libretto, etc.), but I suspect the reason this is in my stack of stuff is because (maybe...??) there is no choir.
I was talking to a friend of mine (studio teacher/professor at a big university, and lives about an hour and a half away). They are a trombone/euphonium/tuba player as well, and began laughing - because after I mentioned this piece, they looked in their own stack of Easter stuff for Sunday and found the same tuba solo programmed. They are also choosing to play it on (E-flat) tuba, so nearly as easy a button-mashing key for them as well.
