Interesting venues to play?

[opus37]

We have an Orpheum in Minneapolis. It looks very much like the one pictured here from Memphis. Was there several of those around the country made to the same or similar design?

[eupher61]

I haven't played here, and actually doubt I will, but everyone who has, including YoYo Ma, says it's an amazing room. I believe 'em.



Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, in KC, MO.

[Kory101]

I've been very lucky to get to play here for the past 2 years. Koerner Hall, Toronto.

[eupher61]

is Ray Leudeke still in the clarinet section in Toronto?

[Rick F]

I've only played here once, but it's a great venue. The Raymond F. Kravis Center of Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, FL. It opened in 1992 at the cost of $63 million and seats 2193.

[Kory101]

is Ray Leudeke still in the clarinet section in Toronto?

No, he's not.

[Bob Kolada]

My old group, the South Shore Brass Band (now apparently back in business!), played/s summer concerts at an outdoor amphitheater with a pond with some sort of fountain in it.
http://www.southshorebrassband.org/

[Dean]

Done a couple thousand gigs here:

[bort]

Typically, I play in churches or schools. Not bad places, but not "interesting" in the same regard as the others here.

Two that will always stick with me:
-- An outdoor concert at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, playing music to accompany a fireworks display (luckily, we were mic'd)
-- An outdoor concert in Nauders, Austria. Very small ski town, and we were there in June. One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen in my life! I'll try to find a picture and post it tonight.

[Bob Kolada]

The WWII memorial in DC, 2011. The 85th Army Band played for the 88th "Blue Devils" reunion. In another picture you can see the Washington Monument behind/infront of us (depending on the picture). You can see my head next to the chimes, or whatever the drummers call that thing.

[LARSONTUBA]

I had the pleasure to play Symphonie Fantastique with the Festival City Symphony at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee Wisconsin.







I've also played twice at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas Texas, which is an incredible performance venue.





And, for what it is worth, I performed a good number of concerts in the Bader Concert Hall at the Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts on campus at UW-Milwaukee. It was SUPER tuba friendly. We played Carmina Burana, Shostakovich 5, and Firebird Orchestral Suite in my year with the orchestra there, and all the recordings sound like tuba concerto with orchestra accompaniment. It was just the way the acoustics of the room worked.. I played as quietly as possible and the room took my sound and ran with it. It was unfortunate, but the room was BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Wyvern]

One of my favourite venues to play is Salisbury Cathedral. I fairly regularly play there with Salisbury Symphony Orchestra.

[Wyvern]

Reverb is usually a consideration in churches built in the long and tradional form.

That is a problem in Salisbury too, although about 4 seconds - but worth it to play in such a fantastic building 900 years old. We have played Mahler, Holst and Elgar in there, but not yet Bruckner which for me would be ideal.

[Timswisstuba]

I often find myself playing in Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland-

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This is where I practice when it's not too cold.

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[Timswisstuba]

' fabulous practice room and a fabulous hall, Tim !

Any reverberation which lasts much more than about a half a second tends to pull the palm of my hand to my forehead.

Sometimes composers here write for music to be played within mountain space with brass choirs placed in different valleys 2 kilometres apart. We're given atomic clocks and have play the together using the clocks as our conductors. The last one I did was in an area called schaffmatte (sheep field) and lasted from 4am -8am for the sunrise. I didn't want to treck a tuba with me so I used the contrabass trumpet.


I was going to put up the pictures of Eastman Theatre as my old stomping grounds but (as usual) you beat me too it. Kilmer is a great person.Thanks for posting it.

[Master Sergeant Tuba]

Performed in thousands of locations around the world.

Three places I will never forget - Berlin in 1989 and 1990 (Philharmonie, Lustgarten and the Soviet Mission in Potsdam where we played the East German Anthem once so that we could "officially" recognize the country, ergo unification), Kabul Afghanistan on numerous occasions during 09-10 and the bombed out hulk of a national theater in Kosovo under the baton of Fred Catchings and one of Kosovo's national composers.

Best performance ever - at home, for my wife and the cat. She loves that I play tuba. It's nice to be appreciated.


Oh, and since he retired last Friday I have to mention the Interlochen Bowl with Tom Holtz. Everyone should have that opportunity.