For decades, the emperors have had no clothes.

[sloan]

Having not played many of Chance's works in my lifetime, a somewhat odd experience was playing his (written just before he died, and performed by me a few months after he died...of electrocution ) Elegy in early 1973.

Not comparing Chance to Mozart, but it is odd the Mozart wrote a Requiem just before he died and Chance wrote an Elegy just before he died.

I've played "Var. on a Korean Folk Tune" several times - and heard it performed recently.

It's one of my favorite pieces for Wind Ensemble.

And...while I don't have the part in front of me, I don't recall anything mind-bending, chop-challenging, or knuckle-busting in the tuba part.

It does require a fairly extensive percussion set-up.

[k001k47]

I have found that composing music myself.

I didn't know you were composing already. Cool!

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I don't know how this topic took off, but maybe it'd help with people's high register if they did some personal research on the subject.