Fort Collins, CO Symphony Orchestra-Tuba

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:40 am

Just stumbled across this web page, I don't know anything about it except this link. Looks like they are holding auditions March 17, 2007 and they are located in Fort Collins, CO.

http://www.fcsymphony.org/auditions.shtml

Regards,
Rob

tubabike · Post by **tubabike** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:36 am

Fort Collins, CO???!!!

That's where they make Fat Tire!!!!

Best Beer on the planet!

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:59 am

tubabike wrote:Fort Collins, CO???!!!
That's where they make Fat Tire!!!!
Best Beer on the planet!

I guess this audition will be well-attended.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:19 am

TubaRay wrote:I guess this audition will be well-attended.

Why not, for a $3500 job, where they want to hear

Solo:

Vaughn Williams: Tuba Concerto - First Movement

Excerpts:

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
5th movement: 84 â€“ end

Berlioz: Hungarian March
Reh. 4 to 11 bars after Reh. 5

Mahler: Symphony No. 1
3rd movement, Reh. Nos. 1 â€“ 4

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
1st movement, Reh. Nos. 3 â€“ 6

Stravinsky: Petrushka
[188] to [191]

Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries
Pick up to [11] (m126) to 5 bars after [12] (m143)

Wagner: Die Meistersinger Prelude
Beginning to [A] and to [L]

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Number 4 "Bydlo"

Sight Reading may be required

Musicians are responsible for providing their own music.

Jobey Wilson · Post by **Jobey Wilson** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:07 pm

Oh...Fat Tire...YUMMMMMM!!!!!!!!! I loved my summers in Aspen! jobey

Todd S. Malicoate · Post by **Todd S. Malicoate** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:50 pm

windshieldbug wrote:
TubaRay wrote:I guess this audition will be well-attended.
Why not, for a $3500 job

Well put...I make almost this much just for accompanying two studios (about 10-12 students) for all their competitions and recitals in a year. Terribly disappointing. Certainly not worth uprooting and moving to Colorado for, unless there are some really fine teaching opportunities (although I hate the reasoning that professional players HAVE to teach to make a decent living).

I can hardly blame the Ft. Collins Symphony for the small salary, though...I'm sure many fine players will make the trek to audition.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:23 pm

Maybe so, but I wonder if they realized what they've asked for, and are prepared to provide the parking lot for the hardware that this could require...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:07 pm

Point, set, and match, you, you, you... Spelling Nazi!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:10 pm

In TubeNetÂ® speak, exactly!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:58 pm

I hate to be picky (or is it piggy?), but a big a@@ed tuba would be possesive, so it would be a tuba with a large posterior, whereas a big a@@ tuba would be a colloquialism, so that would, in fact, be proper usage for a humongously-bored horn.

At least it is to us Yankees

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:45 pm

Doc wrote:FUBAR?

WWTFJD?

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:26 am

Doc wrote:Society places no emphasis on real language, and legitimizes idiot-speak, rap-speak, and ignant-speak.

True, but it's not like this is a modern trend. The language in this country has been changing since the pilgrims arrived.

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:38 pm

I'm sure they will get a pretty good turn out.

The stipend is just enough to cover a large transit. It really comes down to the fact that groups like this are hard to come by here in the middle of nowhere. People will show up, because people want a chance to play with a group that plays SOME serious lit.

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:54 pm

the elephant wrote:
EuphManRob wrote:Oh... lol, BAT = Big A** Tuba, am I right?

Yes; BAT stands for "Big A** Tuba," though I think it is supposed to be "big-a**ed" and not "big a**" (I have never figured this finer point out and my grammarian grandmother passed away a few years ago so I cannot ask her . . . )

In case you cannot figure it out (doh!), the BAT is on the left and the SAT (YFB-621) is on the right.

The BAT should always be on the right!

cjk · Post by **cjk** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:49 pm

Poor Alex. He got left out of the picture.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:40 am

Dale,
I you even have an interest, I'd encourage you to go. A job this size may only have night and weekend services. You don't know what the response will be, and, as Wade says, PM's sometimes have trouble even maintaining sub lists. Likely their contract says that they have to advertise, anyway.

Sometimes "accurate enough" is "good enough" to get your foot in the door!

Scott Sutherland · Post by **Scott Sutherland** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:58 am

Congrats, Charlie! And good luck with CSPO!

David Spies · Post by **David Spies** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:00 pm

Congratulations to Charles Ortega--

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

Have you recovered from your celebration?

Dave Spies

FarahShazam · Post by **FarahShazam** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:54 pm

congrats to the winner, CO!

SirCharls · Post by **SirCharls** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:47 am

Thanks everyone! It feels good to get ANY job, and I can't wait for the next season to begin.

Congratulations to Dan Castillo and Joe Walsh for advancing to the final round. I met some other tubists that day and everyone was friendly. Other than a little bleed-through in the stage area, this was a well-run audition.

Bloke: (gasp) pm me and let me know where you heard me play!

Charlie O.
Principal Tuba
Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra
(sniff, still got that new gig smell!) lol

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