Sonata for bass tuba and piano. -Thomas Beversdorf.

[TheChiefofStaph]

That recording is in the following libraries:

AZ ARIZONA STATE UNIV AZS
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CA UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA CUT

CO UNIV OF COLORADO AT BOULDER COD

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WA CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIV

WI LAWRENCE UNIV

[porkchopsisgood]

did you get that from an interlibrary loan list? If so, where do you access it?

Thanks!

Allen Carter
Temple University

[anonymous4]

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname ... =100113117

This is the World Cat database that can search ANY library in the World! (That is part of the system)

You probably won't be able to get it to work on your home computer....but a local college or university should have access.

[Robert N. Calkins]

I performed this piece on a recital in 1973 and enjoyed working on it as well as performing it. Dr. Beversdorf, at the time, was a professor at Indiana University and I wrote him a letter requesting information about the piece, which he graciously sent me. I agree, it does have a difficult accompaniment, one that needs work if the two instruments are to "fit together" properly for a gratifying performance. I believe several sessions with your accompanist are necessary. At the time I performed it, I did not have a recording, but it came off quite well. Sometimes it is best not to copy someone else, but arrive at your own interpretation. Best of luck with the preparation and performance!

Robert N. Calkins
performer-teacher-composer-arranger
Tecumseh MI

[Will]

I performed this piece in my college audition. I have a lot of good (and bad) memories of this piece. This was the first work for tuba and piano that I ever worked on. Luckily my private teacher had me working with my accompanist 4 months before I first performed it (3 time publicly before my audition). The pianist mentioned often how difficult the part was.

Good luck with it and hope you enjoy it.

[crbarnes]

I played this on my master's recital and have a CD of that performance. I am not making any claims or promises that I have a reasonable concept of it, but I can burn it for you. This was in 1974 and live in a recital hall, but OK for an amateur recording. Might give you another perspective on interpretation (or at least things not to do when performinmg it ). My accompanist was one of the best I have ever played with and she felt this was one of the most difficult pieces she had ever played. She did most of the recital work for the Masters and Performance Major Bachelors degree students and could really play, so I appreciate all the comments on how important it is to work as a team from early on.
If interested, just email me off line.

[Chuck Jackson]

The piano part can not be as hard as the hindemith piano part

Your right, it's harder. This from the mouth of Vergie Amendola who was THE best accompianist outside of California. She worked with the brass guys at Northern Colorado. She wouldn't perform my entire program, only the Beversdorf, so I had to hire someone else to play the balance of my Junior Recital. She swore she would rather do the Hindemith, ANY Hindemith, than to have to the Beversdorf again.

This piece has been pushed aside in favor of higher, louder faster works. I contend that this is the hardest piece musically written in a long time. I am glad it is making the rounds. DO NOT POO-POO this piece or it will bite you on the ***. It needs to be played incredibly clean, which is hard in the written register, so the lines balance with the intricacy of the piano part.

Better have a world class sound for the 2nd movemnt.

Chuck

[Chuck Jackson]

and a BBb tuba wouldn't hurt

In my "I'd never play a tuba with flats in it's name" day I never realized how much easier it would have been to play the piece on it's intended instrument (Jack Robinson and John Upchurch, two of my most important teachers, and students at IU in what were ostensibly were the glory days, who worked with Beversdorf and said he always prefered it on BBb.) I do now and wish I could still play to do the piece again.

Chuck

[Chuck Jackson]

and it doesn't take a Hindemith accompanist to get it done, either.

Really?!

[JCalkin]

This afterthought may seem facetious, but I honestly do not mean it to be:

While playing the Beversdorf "in my head" and thinking about the structure and very rhythmic nature of the piano accompaniment, I can't help but wonder how well it would come off if played by a very fine marimba player with medium-hard mallets...

Hmm. My wife is a fine marimbist, and lord knows we have about a million pairs of medium-hard mallets.

I'll have to give it a try, and if it is feasible I'll get back with results.