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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:38 am
by Chuck(G)
"Funiculi Funicula" is a nice one.
Others I like:
Torna a Surriento
Core 'ngrato
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:14 am
by BopEuph
Variations on "Napoli?"
O mio Babbino Caro is a popular aria played on the euph, how about that? You could also play a traditional tarantella on the tuba. That might be fun.
Or how about Angelina? Zooma Zooma? Many of these could be found sung by Louis Prima, or any big singer of that time.
Nick
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:27 am
by SplatterTone
Does Love Theme from The Godfather count? Nino Rota was Italian.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:50 am
by Chuck(G)
Anything from "The Rabbit of Seville" would be good:
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:39 am
by dmmorris
Anything by Ennio Morricone could be good.
Check out
http://www.yo-yoma.com/morricone/
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:52 am
by SplatterTone
Anything from "The Rabbit of Seville" would be good:
Directed by Leopold, of course!
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:12 am
by finnbogi
You could play Capuzzi's double bass concerto.
...or Vivaldi's Winter.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:22 am
by Dutch
The Carnival of Venice?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:32 am
by NickJones
Largo Al Factotum - arr Stephen Roberts
Chamapagne Aria ( from Don Giovanni )
Un furtiva Lagrima - arr Steve Sykes
On with the Motley arr Ray Farr ( I know soprano cornet players have used this for years , but it is a tenor aria so steal it back ).
Italian solo
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:39 am
by Haugan
Beelzebub.
Let them know what you and the tuba are all about with this "first published solo for tuba" (confirmation,denial regarding claim??) and classic "Taste of Sicily" solo.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:52 pm
by windshieldbug
Ave Maria. Won't be a dry water key in the house.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:33 am
by Chuck(G)
windshieldbug wrote:Ave Maria. Won't be a dry water key in the house.
Whose Ave Maria? Gounod? Seems that he wasn't too eye-tal-eye-an... Bach weren't neither...
Re: Italian solo
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:06 am
by Chuck(G)
Haugan wrote:Beelzebub.
Let them know what you and the tuba are all about with this "first published solo for tuba" (confirmation,denial regarding claim??) and classic "Taste of Sicily" solo.
Unless it was published prior to 1882, denial:
http://memory.loc.gov/music/sm/sm1882/1 ... 79/002.tif
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:11 am
by SplatterTone
Whose Ave Maria? Gounod? Seems that he wasn't too eye-tal-eye-an... Bach weren't neither...
Schubert neither.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:34 am
by imperialbari
O sole mio.
Don’t forget to put the hook line up 2 octaves. Or 2 octaves down.
Klaus
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:13 am
by finnbogi
Statman wrote:Next week, I think I will treat my AF students to the Air Force Song
Up in the Air, Junior Birdman?
Flyboys
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:59 am
by Haugan
.....flying high, into the sun!
The wave of the future, still viewed from left and right with suspicion, BUT........
Destroyer of battleships,
foreign and domestic nearly alike,
Defender of skyscrapers,
transporter to the masses,
oft unheralded for sacrifices above
and beyond the call of duty or otherwise.
In her writings, Kay Redfield Jamison cronicles an event that takes place in her childhood: As a second grader, she witnesses the crash of a jet that barely missed her schoolyard.
She writes: "Over the next few days it became clear, from the release of the young pilot's final message to the control tower before he died,that he knew he could save his own life by bailing out.he also knew, however, that by doing so he risked that his unnaccompanied planewould fall onto the playground and kill those of us who were there." That is the stuff that men are made of.
Food for thought to those of you fortunate enough to be in Ft. Meyer in two weeks. I look forward with relish to my next "Italian Party". In 1980 the Sicilians treated me like royalty; and my fondest memories stem from my Italian vacations as a young man in Europe and later traveling with The Sicilian band of Chicago.
Ave Italia!