Gurrelieder in Boston

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I'm having the great fortune to participate in this week's Boston Symphony performances of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.

For those unfamiliar with it, Gurrelieder is a very early work by Schoenberg, in a very dense but tonal late Romantic style. It employs an absolutely enormous orchestra, with a low brass section consisting of bass trumpet, alto trombone, 3 tenors, 1 tenor part that clearly needs a bass trombone (me), 1 part marked bass, contrabass trombone, and tuba.

The low brass players are:

bass trumpet: Darren Acosta
alto trombone: Ron Barron
tenor 1: Norman Bolter
tenor 2: Alexei Doohovskoy
tenor 3: John Faieta
tenor 4 (bass): me
bass: Angel Subero
contrabass: Doug Yeo
tuba: Mike Roylance

Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at Symphony Hall. This piece is so huge that it doesn't get performed often - an event not to be missed!

We'll see about getting a picture...