Who are your heroes in music?

Yutakatuba · Post by **Yutakatuba** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:29 pm

I just saw this topic on another BBS, and I thought it might be interesting to hear from fellow tubenetters.

Mine are:

Roger Bobo
Leonard Bernstein

and many, many more.

Who are your heroes in music?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:37 pm

You are one of my heroes, Yutakatuba.
Your screen name has given me insight as to a possible quintuple tonguing technique. I'll work on it and let you know if I can pull it off.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:44 pm

Gustav Mahler

John Adams

Gustav Holst

BopEuph · Post by **BopEuph** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:48 pm

Pablo Casals (awesome phrasing)
Sonny Rollins (great sound)
Harry Connick, Jr. (awesome solos and envious arrangements)
Charles Mingus (Get a video and watch him play. Super relaxed with fast passages!)
Art Lehman
Steve Mead
Brian Bowman
Rikki McDonnell

Oh, man, this list goes on...

XtremeEuph · Post by **XtremeEuph** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:50 pm

Tubainsauga · Post by **Tubainsauga** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:51 pm

Glenn Gould, Leonard Bernstien, Stan Rogers among others.

Matt Good · Post by **Matt Good** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:03 am

XtremeEuph · Post by **XtremeEuph** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:29 am

Falcone anyone? hehe

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:37 am

my band and orchestra directors- w/o them i wouldn't be here

Composers:
Hector Berlioz
George Gershwin
Carl Orff
Percy Grainger

Players:
Arnold Jacobs
Gene Pokorny
Ron Wilkins
Roger Bobo

**nothing's in any particular order.

-casey

THE TUBA · Post by **THE TUBA** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:05 am

Here are some

Shostakovich

Arnold Jacobs

Chicago Symphony Low Brass

Phantom Regiment drum and bugle corps (It is what turned me on to classical music)

The Fletch

There is no better tuba concerto.

The TubeNet Magician

CJ Krause · Post by **CJ Krause** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:14 am

Richard Gibby- My High School Band Director
taught for 38 years and in that 38 years he got sweepstakes for 34 of the 38 years. this is an amazing accomplishment

he died just a couple of years after he retired

Sweepstakes in middle school is a 1 in concert and sight reading and in high school it is a 1 in marching, concert and sight reading

he helped me make All State w/o ever taking a private lesson

he was a great guy and a good tuba player
he graduated Sam Houston State University where i went to school

College Band Directors
Ralph Mills- learned an absolute ton from him as a musician and what ensembles are supposed to sound like

Fisher Tull- Loved playing in his Wind Ensenble at college for 3 years. what a wonderful man and musician and he helped me at every turn in college

Richard Frazier- my only tuba teacher and i learned much about my instrument and going to the first 2 ITECs with him in 73 and 74 and then to go take lessons from Mr Jacobs.

all my teaching skills i have used for life have been because from what i learned from him and playing with him. we worked hard but an absolute ton of fun. the Octubafest's were 3 to 5 days of just great music and fun.

Shockwave · Post by **Shockwave** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:29 am

Maynard Ferguson

Cesar Franck

Mervyn Warren

Adolph Sax

J. S. Bach

Stan Kenton

E. Power Biggs

Gene Puerling

John Williams

James Morrison

-Eric

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:39 am

Olivier Messiaen
Edgard Varese
Gene Pokorny
Yo-Yo Ma
Dan Perantoni
Bill Laswell
Tom Waits
John Zorn
Patrick Sheridan
Nat McIntosh

That's all I can think of right now, I'll add later.

Z-Tuba Dude · Post by **Z-Tuba Dude** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:45 am

Wilhelm Furtwangler
Luciano Pavarotti
John Fletcher
Leonard Bernstein
Steven Mead
Anthony Jackson

BopEuph · Post by **BopEuph** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:01 am

SJSUW wrote:RVW and Miles Davis

(for their music and their humanity)

I could be wrong, but I have heard that Miles isn't what we would call the ideal human. There is even a story that says he flicked off a young child after the kid's father told Miles how much his son loves Miles' music.

Nick

drewfus · Post by **drewfus** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:34 am

Not trying to subdivide this too much, but I always considered a hero to be one who gave of themselves to affect myself or other's directly. So in the "heros" list are:

My Mom and Dad, who encouraged me and my sisters to learn and play music. For me that meant trios with Dad on cornet and Mom on the piano, me on a baritone back in those days.

My Jr. High band teacher, Doug McFarlane who put up with endless stupidity and silliness. He had a way of making us want to be better without browbeating. He was the person who encouraged me to switch to tuba, and was willing to even teach me accordion during one of my moments of Jr. High insanity.

And last in my "heros" list is my friend Kristina who is a elementary band teacher. She has a fire and energy for teaching that is phenominal. I imagine she will be on somebody else's "heros" list someday.

As far as musical "idols" go the short list is:

Prince
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Otis Clay
Leroy Anderson
Gershwin
Sibelius
James Brown
Robert Cray
Kate Bush

To cover multiple artists, favorite groups are:

Genesis
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Rush
Steely Dan
Soundgarten

clagar777 · Post by **clagar777** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:39 am

Roger Winslow: My teacher in many ways other than tuba.
Great man.

Cameron Gates · Post by **Cameron Gates** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:09 am

Maynard

Geddy Lee

Neil Peart

Maynard

GC · Post by GC » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:12 am

Ray Brown, James Jamerson, Jaco Pastorius, John Paul Jones, Peter Cetera, Jack Bruce, Chuck Rainey, Alfonso Jones, Lee Sklar, Victor Wooten.

Clark Terry, E. Power Biggs, Jascha Heifitz, Pablo Casals, Msistislav Rostopovich, Edgar Mayer, Lewie Soloff, Jake, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joe Pass, Andre Previn, Oscar Peterson, Joe Robinson.

Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Respighi, Penderecki, Stockhausen, Tchaikovsky, Hindemith, Bennett, Goldsmith.

Bernstein, Ormandy, Stokowski, Reiner, Steinberg, Solti, Boulez.

Bob Barr, Wain Bates, John Taylor.

chipster55 · Post by **chipster55** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:37 am

low brass-
Roger Bobo
Jim Self
Brian Bowman

other-
Maynard Ferguson
Doc Severinsen
Buddy Rich
Ed Shaughnessy