Halloween pops outtake

[bloke]

I had no idea this was on YouTube, but a friend shared it on Facebook.
This is from a Halloween pops concert during my hernia/flu/toothache era, last fall.

In spite of all of that, I played fine (needed to, and needed the paycheck), and I used the compact Holton B-flat.

On this same concert, I used a (quite large) compensating euphonium to play the ophicleide part to the Gounod “March…” - which was also the Alford Hitchcock TV show theme. I also used it to play the March to the Scaffold from “Symphonie Fantastique”, and I used my Yamaha 321 euphonium to play Mars from “The Planets”.

This chart… probably just an orchestral version of some community band (etc.) arrangement, but programmed as a “get the (drunk) patrons involved” thing.

[Three Valves]

I dig the table set up.

[bloke]

The venue (though older) is pretty amazing:

2/3rds of the seats (up at an angle, supported by steel) are able to be folded up and stored away - leaving the (still: considerably-sized) permanent balcony and it's seats.

People (and not just "rich" people) go in together and buy those seats/dinner, and other people can just purchase balcony seats.

VIDEO:

ref: pops concerts

I dig the table set up.

This is WITH those removable seats (which cover up the flat floor - where you saw the people seated at those round tables) in place: