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Hi TubeNet--

I wanted to let you know that there will be a live stream of all programs affiliated with the Louisiana State University 14th annual Octubafest.

We have seven programs this year. All programs occur in the LSU Recital Hall and are listed in Central Time Zone.

Octuba 21 - 5:30PM - Studio Soloists featuring works by Cosma, Persichetti, Delibes, Arnold, and more.
Octuba 21 - 7:30PM - Chasse Duplantis (MM Euphonium, Winner 2010/11 MTNA National Solo Competition) in recital on the first half, the LSU Tuba Euphonium Ensemble on the second half.

Octuba 25 - 5:30PM - Patrick Melvin (BM, Tuba) and Chris Gongora (MM, Euphonium) in a split recital
Octuba 25 - 7:30PM - Dr. Joseph Skillen in a pianoless recital. Works accompanied by brass quintet, woodwind quintet, tuba octet, percussion, and unaccompanied works as well.

Novemtuba 2 - 4:00PM - Brad Boone (Euphonium) and Eric Hamilton (tuba) from Ft. Rucker, Alabama US Army Band - Guest Artist Joint Recital
Novemtuba 2 - 5:30PM - Andy Larson, DMA Tuba - final required solo recital at LSU - Performing Songs of Ascent by Kellaway, Sonata by Cheetham, and Dance of the Goblins by Bazzini
Novemtuba 2 - 7:30PM - Benjamin Miles (Wright State Univ) and Sarah Miles (Ohio Northern Univ) in a joint Guest Artists Recital

Whew! Hope some of you can catch it online!! It will be a lot of fun!

[edit: And here is the link which I forgot to post!!!!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tuba-recitals" target="_blank

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Thanks for the heads-up -- hope to be listening! Sounds like a great program.

Regarding dates: we (the tuba studio at Western Michigan University in the late 70s / early 80s), after considerable discussion and research (involving serial ingestion of cereal beverages, as I recall), came to the conclusion (contusion? whatever) that Octuba is an extensible month -- able to stretch to cover any and all dates when recital halls and other facilities might be available. There were several years when we were in the Octuba 33rd - 35th range, and I think one year it was on the 37th ... and the printed programs listed the date that way! Just for future reference ...

Nice, Kevin! Thanks for the heads up on Octuba's extendability. I wasn't aware that it was one of those months.

We will make use of that in the future at LSU and wherever I become employed post-graduation.

Andy Larson

Haven't found the link yet -- could you post it, please? Thanks!

duh....


http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tuba-recitals" target="_blank

Much appreciated!

Uhmmm. is this a joke, or did I set up wrong, or what? I got what sounded like severe equipment problems. . . false harmonics, breakup, etc.

Hi sailin--

I used the built in microphone for the 5:30 recital. This turned out to be a big mistake. The tuba and euph sound totally overloaded it even when I had the input level turned almost all the way done. On the 7:30 program I used an external microphone and the sound quality is much better.

I hope you'll excuse my learning curve (this is the first time I've ventured in the live streaming arena) and will continue to check out our recitals on 10/25 and 11/2.

Andy Larson

Thanks. Makes ME feel better.

sailn2ba wrote:Thanks. Makes ME feel better.

No worries! There was definitely a learning curve on my part for that. I'm glad we worked it out though! I hope you'll tune in next week and the following. We have 5 really good programs coming up.