Falstaff By Verdi

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:16 am

Hey Larry,

If you are doing this, get a recording and the part way ahead of time, it's hard.

Chuck

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:34 am

... and remember: You have to go in the "'Staff Only" entrance!

Dan Satterwhite · Post by **Dan Satterwhite** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:27 pm

...and remember that Verdi wanted a contrabass trombone to play the part, not a tuba!

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:28 am

schlepporello wrote:OK, we finally had our performance tonight. I'm still alive!

Not the worst thinkable situation

schlepporello wrote:Time will tell if I get invited to play with them again or not.

I safely can guarantee you that you will NEVER be asked to play in a staging of the opera, from where the last part of your screen-name was inspired. By the way a funny role, that of Leporello, even if the opera is not that funny at all.

If somebody should bully you about your playing, just take the attitude of the guy, who had put â€œJohnâ€

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:47 pm

schlepporello wrote:
imperialbari wrote:I safely can guarantee you that you will NEVER be asked to play in a staging of the opera,
I figure that they will come to their senses Monday morning and say, "Good Lord! What have we done?" Then they'll take appropriate measures to insure that this mistake will never be made again.

Oh, Schleppy, you disappoint me.

Certainly not at all as a tuba player, where I have no doubts that you fit well into your musical environments.

But the reason, that I could issue a written in stone guarantee, that you never will play tuba in a staging of Don Juan, is extremely simple: Mozart never wrote one note for tuba. And he had very convincing reasons not to do so.

(Whether Verdi ever wrote a single note for tuba is another debate).

Schlep, play, and enjoy!

Klaus

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:30 pm

Only a truck driver would ever consider playing a trombone part!
'monback! 'monback!

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:43 pm

windshieldbug wrote:Only a truck driver would ever consider playing a trombone part!
'monback! 'monback!

I happen to know a few trombone players, who also would consider doing so.

Klaus

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:00 am

Congratulations, Schlep,
You had fun doing something different and made some nice cabbage.
My wife is always willing to go out to dinner at a nice place if I pay for it with giggin' money. It's an extra treat.
If you keep blowing trombone, you may have to start drinking "Blatz" Beer.