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My friend, Tim Fisher, will be having his bass trombone graduate recital on May 15th at 8pm at the Hartt School of Music.

I'm not sure what else he will be performing but, one of the piece on the program will be Trio for Bass Instruments by Charles Wuorinen (Bass trombone, Tuba, and String Bass). I must say this is one of the hardest chamber piece I've ever played... but at the same time, it's a rockin' piece!

If you're in the area, come check out Tim's amazing bass trombone playing!

There's also some sort of concerto or something by wourinen for tuba and strings or 10 part ensemble or something like that. It's hard, rental only, and no one plays it. I was unaware of the trio.

The trio can be found on this cd:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174

and the concerto for tuba and chamber orchestra can be found on this cd (I have it on vinyl, wow huh?)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174

From the records linere notes about the tuba concerto:
THE TUBA CONCERTO was written in 1970 for Donald Butterfield. It contains 4 main instrumental strands: the soloist and three homogeneous choirs (4 flutes, four horns and four double reeds {oboes and bassoons}) These are supplemented by a battery of twelve drums which serve to summarize the rhythmic activity of the other instruments. The soloist's role is as the initaiting voice in the four part polyphony, and what he says in singkes notes then becomes ramified and mmultiplied into many notes of the three instrumental choirs. The underlying polyphony spans the whole work, which is divided into three movements. The piece shows a tendency to accelerate throughout, though this process is neither regular nor linear. The piece is also strongly centric, although this characteristic is still derived from the twelve-tone set govening the whole composition.


To be honest, it's not my favorite piece by wuorinen (ringing changes for percussion ensemble is) and the fact that it's a rental, hard as crap and the forces needed would be a little hard to find, I don't know of many performances and I don't expect there to be a ton. I talked to one of the percussionists who played at the premire {March 7, 1971 NYC Don Butterfield as soloist} and he said the percussion part was almost unplayable becuase it was so hard and that Mr. Butterfield said the same about the tuba part. BUT, if some group were to call me up to play it I wouldn't turn them down (FWIW).


To find out more about wuorinen in general:
http://www.charleswuorinen.com/

It's next Monday!!!