The point is well taken about the violin having such a variety of tone colors, compared to the tuba, but I would remind people that many of the various techniques that fiddle players employ today, that create those different tones, were not in use early in the violin's existence, but were later developed, over the centuries.
I think we need to keep slugging our way up to the middle!
I think big, public works, are the way to go. Toward that end, I just read a great review of Jennifer Higdon's new violin concerto, and thought to myself: Wow, if we could talk Jennifer into taking on the challenge of writing a great tuba concerto, what a cool thing that would be!
So, anybody know her well enough to pose the question to her???
