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My good friend Eric Alexander recently wrote a piece (upon my insistent requests!) called Five Dances for Unaccompanied Tuba. Eric is a great composer/arranger with mad trombone skills, so he wrote a work that was incredibly idiomatic for the big tuba. All five movements have a dance element-- very audience friendly!!

You may listen to the piece by visiting http://www.ugatubaeuph.com, and going to the Audio page.

I hope that you will enjoy the piece and maybe pick up a copy of your own!

Cheers!
DZ
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I wonder if your server is having problems. Wouldn't play the dances in one browser (although it played the tuba/euph ensemble), and loaded slow in Firefox and kept cutting off after just a few measures.

^Perhaps. I got no sound at first. But I tried some of the other clips and then went back to the Five Dances and finally got sound. They sound great! Sounds like fun to play.

Sorry you were having trouble, Don. Just worked fine for me minutes ago when using Safari. If problems persist, let me know and I'll do some detective work.

FYI, I used Google Chrome and everything worked fine. BTW, nice composition, nice performance!

Tried again. Similar results as tooba. 5dances wouldn't play until I tried several other pieces. Then I was able to play all but the Ragtime Waltz which kept cutting out after a few seconds. Repeatable in both Safari and Firefox. The Hartley, Gillingham, Capuzzi and VaughnWilliams also exhibited the cutout.

I liked the dances I could hear, only I thought possibly there were too many repeats. With only a single instrument there is not too much variation besides volume, and audiences have short attention spans nowadays.

Worked perfectly instantly for me in firefox 4. Fun stuff, nice background music while internet surfing.

I had to "temporarily allow pop-ups" to hear the clips. The server seemed slow as well but it worked and the clips sounded great.

The etude recording project on youTube... it proves Dave Zerkel is a brave man and a great player.

The etude recording project on youTube... it proves Dave Zerkel is a brave man and a great player.

And/or a fool.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!