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I believe this is a "premiere"...The composer is Atlanta-based.

It's an overture with pleasant sounds, and a busy-enough tuba part...

midi file link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5sr5ep6ii01s ... erture.mp3

...two octave range from C below to C above...with optional low E-flat at the end.

I'm pretty sure that I'll be using my F tuba.

Also programmed is Saint-Saëns "Organ Symphony" - with Juilliard hot-shot, Paul Jacobs (first organist to receive a Grammy), playing the organ.

info: https://www.thejacksonsymphony.org/concerts-events-1

' will prol'ly use the same tuba...' should do just fine.... ' really silly to attempt to compete with an organ.

one rehearsal...two shows...

I was "social distanced" down to right behind the organ console when playing the "Organ Symphony".
...but I had to slide back over close to the bass trombonist, because - otherwise, I did not have a line of sight with the music director.

I've performed the Saint-Saëns at least five times...I recall that the first time I performed it (with full-time orchestra) the organist got lost.
I've performed it twice with only one rehearsal...This was one of those times (thus, me deeming it important to maintain a line of sight with the conductor).

The young organist, Paul Jacobs (probably in his early forties...??) is a true virtuoso, but it doesn't require a virtuoso to play this piece...THOUGH it sounds radically different when a "musician" plays the organ part (vs. an "organ operator").

He performed a Bach toccata an an encore. I could hear and feel his very busy feet through the back of the console, during the amazing Bach performance.


' interesting trombone section:
The first and bass players live over five hours apart, and the second player lives three hours from the first player and two hours from the bass player.
I live an hour from the second player, three hours from the first player, and three hours from the bass player.
The first player studied at Indiana during Van Haney/Farkas/Phillips years - just after the Bell years.


Paul Jacobs

EDIT:
Do not expect any postings regarding our upcoming December concert.
(...and I feel certain that even more amazing orchestral literature - vocal rentals, etc... - will be passed out at the rehearsals.)

I won’t be going to Longwood Gardens this year but I love to watch the curtains shake when the organist cranks it up!!

If anyone lives right there - and is still all slicked up from goin' to church - he's doing a Bach/Handel recital there today, in an hour...

https://www.facebook.com/events/889461234911169

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:47 am ' interesting trombone section:
The first and bass players live over five hours apart, and the second player lives three hours from the first player and two hours from the bass player.
I live an hour from the second player, three hours from the first player, and three hours from the bass player.

This sounds like the beginning of a 3rd grade Common Core math problem...

York-aholic wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 6:09 pm

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:47 am ' interesting trombone section:
The first and bass players live over five hours apart, and the second player lives three hours from the first player and two hours from the bass player.
I live an hour from the second player, three hours from the first player, and three hours from the bass player.

This sounds like the beginning of a 3rd grade Common Core math problem...

...the "word problem" to solve being:

Please color to border around the map green, unless you prefer to do otherwise.

I had just enough organ lessons over the decades to appreciate those who play well, especially pedal parts, as I could not (and still cannot to any degree) make my feet do anything independently of the hands. So pardon me while I go play a voluntary by Stanley.

Three Valves wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:10 pm I won’t be going to Longwood Gardens this year but I love to watch the curtains shake when the organist cranks it up!!

This comment reminds me of one pizza parlor that had a transplanted small theatre organ, again, some decades ago, that the parlor attached puffy ball fringe to the mouths of the larger wooden pipes to visually flutter as they were played.

iiipopes wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:44 pm

Three Valves wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:10 pm I won’t be going to Longwood Gardens this year but I love to watch the curtains shake when the organist cranks it up!!

This comment reminds me of one pizza parlor that had a transplanted small theatre organ, again, some decades ago, that the parlor attached puffy ball fringe to the mouths of the larger wooden pipes to visually flutter as they were played.

A typical tuba discussion response would be: “...so how does that affect the sound?“

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:34 am

iiipopes wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:44 pm

Three Valves wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:10 pm I won’t be going to Longwood Gardens this year but I love to watch the curtains shake when the organist cranks it up!!

This comment reminds me of one pizza parlor that had a transplanted small theatre organ, again, some decades ago, that the parlor attached puffy ball fringe to the mouths of the larger wooden pipes to visually flutter as they were played.

A typical tuba discussion response would be: “...so how does that affect the sound?“

As with anything that impedes airflow, the pipes so treated tend to go flat, and must be retuned. The upside is that they are like a "beard" in organbuilder parlance, which moderates the initial sibilant of the airflow, which if really bad, is called the "cough" in organbuilder parlance. The sibilant does help with stabilizing the speech of the pipe in a larger area, but in a smaller venue it may be considered better to smooth out the speech of the note. Although I don't think that is what was in mind when the puffy fringe was applied to the pipes.

"A typical tuba discussion response..."