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I am going to have play the Gigout Grand Choeur Dialogue arranged for organ and brass quintet in the near future. It's my choice of which arrangement to use. The problem is that there are numerous arrangements including Kuzma, Leavitt, Thurlow, Harp and Zellner... and I don't know one from the other. I'm assuming all of these are in the original key (don't think the organist would go with a key change).

I would appreciate anyone's experience in comparing any of these with any of the others.

The program is set, we don't need alternative choices, just the Gigout.

Also, I have been informed by the somewhat irate organist the the usual Texas pronumciation: "GIG-out" is incorrect. He insists that we say "Ji-sjo" but I don't believe that the composer is Chinese no matter how you say it. Our pronunciation didn't blow the job but I bet we lost a free church breakfast between services because of it.

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Probably the French pronunciation.

The original is in G as is the Kuzma. I don't know about any of the rest. I played the Kuzma a couple of years ago with a big organ and had a ball. Good transcription. Most of the time it lays right in the meat of the horn. There are a couple of octave jumps to D in the treble staff and a couple of high entrances Bb, Ab but all in all it is very accessible and sounds great. The toughest part is probably in the horn part. There are some crazy hard intervals to hear in solo spots, but that's not your problem. Enjoy. This is really fun stuff.

goodsn4 wrote:Probably the French pronunciation.

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the elephant wrote:Zhi-goo is the way we pronounce it here in the Third World....

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With a wife who has French as her first language, and also Master of Music degree in Trombone perf -- so there is more than passing familiarity with the composer and this work...-- I can confirm The Elephant is correct in his phonetic offering.

the elephant wrote:Hug your wife for me!

Done! And when she wakes up tomorrow I'll tell her, and why!

I played an arrangement last spring by Gary Olson (1978, Canzona Publications). It was pretty straight ahead and required little rehearsal. It was in G and sounded decent. I don't remember any complaints or concerns from the other quintet members or the organist.