I'm only putting a free website's 24-hour download link here...I'm not that sure that I want it on my youtube "channel"...
I need to make several excuses for the orchestra.
- This was an amateur orchestra that hired several ringers for two rehearsals and the concerts.
- This piece was way too hard for that orchestra, and it shouldn't have been attempted, though the amateurs worked VERY hard.
- The concert coincided with the week of the famous Memphis ice storm of 1994 https://www.actionnews5.com/2022/02/09/ ... e-remember , the concert was only two days later, and - thus - the ringers only attended a dress rehearsal (as the one the DAY OF the ice storm had to be cancelled), and were offered ONE run-through of this piece.
- The amateur orchestra's music director (a couple weeks after rehearsals for this concert commencing) was hired with a touring production of Porgy & Bess, and his sibling took over the rehearsals, only ran through it weekly, and didn't fix anything.
- The English horn player was an elderly gentleman who was a music LOVER and NOT really a musician. He bought an expensive English horn only a year prior to this concert, was a rank beginner, took lessons, and worked EXTREMELY hard on that cadenza.
me...??
- I was absolutely SHOCKED that - when the music director returned from his tour (a week prior to this concert) that he was still planning on performing this piece. I STRONGLY advised against it, but he informed me that there wasn't anything to take it's place, and that the concert would end up being too short.
- During the first minute or so of the first movement, I was pretty nervous (not-at-all about my playing, but whether or not we would even make it through the first movement, much less to the end of the piece. After that, the absurdity of the situation occurred to me (should have been obvious, rather than an epiphany), I realized that it just didn't matter, and I (simply) concentrated on my own playing...so my playing improved after that.
There was NO plan to record this, but one of the weaker 2nd violinists had stuck a $19 Walgreens cassette recorder under their chair, and this is what they got (sometimes, hard to hear the tuba, sometimes way too much bad 2nd violin playing), and they told me that had a cassette recording of this, later.
It is what it is.
Some people don't like this piece at all. I guess I played it OK (and fast - c. ♩=150 in the 3rd mvt., because I sorta wanted to get it over with). I sorta DO like the 3rd movement ("devil music"...and in the B-locrian mode, no less). The orchestra stuff is just barely close enough to right whereby you might be able to get some sort of idea of what is really supposed to happen.
Again, this link disappears around lunchtime (USA time) on June 9th.
There's about 5 seconds of dead time at the beginning...This was my FIRST time converting a cassette recording to a digital recording.
There is a messed up place (on the original cassette) for a couple of seconds in the 2nd movement.
Thanks to cktuba for helping me with the gadgetry and sending me to a free conversion program.
https://www.zamzar.com/uploadComplete.p ... 6e&tcs=Z76