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I, along with most of you, play or have played the Blazhevich 70 studies. My tuba instructor in college told me that a lot of the material comes from Russian love songs. Some of them are quite melodic and hauntingly beautiful (to me). If the right ones were combined and expanded upon, I think there is a wealth of music that could be set to various ensemble settings (brass choir,tuba ensemble, even possible band/orchestral with tuba solo(ists). Opinions, anyone?

jmerring wrote:... a lot of the material comes from Russian love songs. ...

I don't think it's RUSSIAN love songs. However, I can just hear Latka Gravis (as played by the late Andy Kaufman) saying "Een my country, we always serenade our ladies weeth these songs..."

Allen Walker
Whose respect for these exercises as learning tools is the opposite of his respect for them as romance.

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jmerring wrote: the late Andy Kaufman

Come on, everybody knows he faked his death . . .

jmerring wrote:If the right ones were combined and expanded upon, I think there is a wealth of music that could be set to various ensemble settings (brass choir,tuba ensemble, even possible band/orchestral with tuba solo(ists). Opinions, anyone?

Good idea, but all you need is a Gustav Holstski or Ralph Von Williams...

I guess I am, once again, a laughingstock. Oh well, on to the next blunder!

Hardly! All I was suggesting is that one needs what has been aptly applied to English folk song (and even Russian, just not so much for brass that I know!)

jmerring wrote:I, along with most of you, play or have played the Blazhevich 70 studies ... If the right ones were combined and expanded upon, I think there is a wealth of music that could be set to various ensemble settings (brass choir,tuba ensemble, even possible band/orchestral with tuba solo(ists). Opinions, anyone?

I think you're right -- hope someone with compositional skills will "pick up" on this!