Rick Denney wrote:Nobody will care about your sound if you miss notes. Nobody will care about your musicianship if you miss notes. And do not underestimate the powah of the dahk side--that piano entrance on the final high G# is a killer. I've heard it chipped by world-class performers using their F tubas. It takes a LOT of performance experience not to be nervous about that entrance.
Rick, as usual, hit the nail on the head. I've done it both ways for paying audiences.
FIRST be secure. THEN sing!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
One of these days, someone's going to turn up a scrap of Ravel's correspondence where he wrote "That Bydlo thing--I couldn't decide if I wanted to give it to the horn or the funny little tuba, so I flipped a coin."
You know, it might be a great part for a Wagner tuba...
-or- "That Bydlo thing--I couldn't decide if I wanted to give it to the horn or the funny little tuba, but the tuba was extra funny last night, so I went with it!"
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
windshieldbug wrote:-or- "That Bydlo thing--I couldn't decide if I wanted to give it to the horn or the funny little tuba, but the tuba was extra funny last night, so I went with it!"
What's strange to me is that folks agonize over the Bydlo thing, but don't wonder if they should use a little (and I mean little) Eb tuba for Symphonie Fantastique.
