Interesting Tenor Tuba Story from The Utah Symphony

[Bowerybum]

http://www.sltrib.com/home/5057067-155/ ... tubas-tale" target="_blank" target="_blank

Mark Davidson, the orchestra's principal trombonist, will play the "Bydlo" movement of "Pictures at an Exhibition" on the century-old tuba, the very instrument that was used when Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite had its U.S. premiere in 1924. It also traveled with Ravel on a 1928 concert tour of the U.S. and Canada, and it's the one you can hear on the Boston Symphony's world-premiere recording of the piece.

[MaryAnn]

I hope that gets recorded, because I don't think I can fly to Utah to hear it.

[UDELBR]

Here's Chicago doing it with this very same instrument. Go to 35:15 http://csosoundsandstories.org/video/mu ... s-of-what/

A shame they didn't do ALL the movements on the French tuba as Ravel intended.

[windshieldbug]

A shame they didn't do ALL the movements on the French tuba as Ravel intended.

But then again, what would have Ravel intended had he access to modern equipment?

[UDELBR]

But then again, what would have Ravel intended had he access to modern equipment?

Huh? All manner of tubas were available when he arranged it in 1922. The instruments available to us haven't changed all that much in the last 150 years or so.