Recording of Broughton's Sonata

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:35 am

Don't forget. the piece was written for Bruce's good friend Tommy Johnson. I'm sure he has a recording of himself playing it. Probably more than one.

Scott Sutherland · Post by **Scott Sutherland** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:57 am

MellowSmokeMan wrote:Don't forget. the piece was written for Bruce's good friend Tommy Johnson. I'm sure he has a recording of himself playing it. Probably more than one.

To my knowledge, the only recording that Tommy Johnson has is from the tuba conference held at USC in 1976(?). It's a live recording with wind ensemble (all LA studio musicians) and Broughton conducting. He may also have a recording of the Sonata's premiere with Broughton playing piano, but I'm not confident of that. Neither of these recordings, though, are commercially available.

The band recording is the first time Tommy ever played F tuba (he used Miraphone CC's exclusively before that). Apparently, he picked it up the day before, decided to try it, and practiced for a few hours with the F before playing it nearly flawlessly the next day. I believe you can hear two fingering mistakes, and zero missed notes. Amazing player and human being.