Who do YOU wish had a written a tuba/euph solo?

ASTuba · Post by **ASTuba** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:00 pm

Deceased - Probably Mahler, Tchaikovsky, or Liszt

Alive - John Adams

THE TUBA · Post by **THE TUBA** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:03 pm

Richard Strauss

Roger Lewis · Post by **Roger Lewis** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:13 pm

I'll put in a vote for John Adams and another for Karel Husa.

Roger

ASTuba · Post by **ASTuba** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:16 pm

EuphManRob wrote:
ASTuba wrote:Alive - John Adams
Start up the commission drive!

I'm thinking about it, I have an idea that I'm working on for it....

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:44 pm

-I wish Karlheinz Stockhausen would get around to writing a true tuba solo
-Stravinsky, (heard a story about him coming this close to writing a tuba concerto, don't know how valid it is.)
-Charles Ives
-Olivier Messiaen
-Claude Debussy
-Astor Piazzolla
-Harry Partch
-Gerald Finzi
-Prokofiev
-I know he's written one solo already, but I'd love another solo from Penderecki
-I wish that Morton Feldman had written an actual solo for the tuba
-John Zorn
-Sir Harrison Birtwhistle
-George Benjamin

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:01 pm

J.S. Bach.
Well, he really did write a wicked F tuba concerto called Brandenburg Concerto #2 that is erroneously played on small trumpets.
And a half dozen suites suitable for any tuba mislabeled as cello suites.
Not to mention tons of brass quintet / ensemble music that was simply mis-scored.
For a genuis, he sure did make a lot of mistakes!

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:09 am

I won't.

George Gershwin.

Dan Castillo · Post by **Dan Castillo** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:23 am

tubafatness wrote:-I wish that Morton Feldman had written an actual solo for the tuba

You could easily write one just like him. First, pick a few of your favorite pitches then distribute them randomly in "graphical notation"; remember, no actual durations, so the performer can hold them for as long or as little as they like. Then mark the whole thing to be played muted at triple piano. The piece should also be about 45 minutes long. For the title you should use For Morton Feldman.

just kiddin'!

Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:23 am

I second Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.

I've also think Jelly Roll Morton's body of work could have been improved with a tuba ditty.

circusboy · Post by **circusboy** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:02 pm

Bartok
Ligiti
Nancarrow
I second the Feldman
Eno

Kodaly
Silvestrov
Xenakis
Debussy
Satie
Sciarrino
Weill
Antheil
Gorecki
Lutoslawski

. . . ahh, to dream . . .

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:12 pm

Euphbate wrote:Ohh man, I love Rachmaninoff's writing, to see some of his writing on the Euph would be awesome.

I'm sure you've heard that choir arrangement he did of his famous piece for brass ensemble "Vespers"...

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:54 pm

That's right... we're talking concertos. How about Vaughan Williams? I know, technically he already wrote one, but I'm sure if Catelinet had done some more prodding,(or he had started earlier) VW could have come up with some real masterpieces, kind of like Mozart's 1st horn concerto vs. nnumbers 2, 3 and 4. Yes, #1 is a nice piece, but the other three are so much better, and I'd like to think if VW had a couple more cracks at it, the same could have been said about his tuba concertos.

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:59 pm

OldsRecording wrote:That's right... we're talking concertos. How about Vaughan Williams? I know, technically he already wrote one, but I'm sure if Catelinet had done some more prodding,(or he had started earlier) VW could have come up with some real masterpieces, kind of like Mozart's 1st horn concerto vs. nnumbers 2, 3 and 4. Yes, #1 is a nice piece, but the other three are so much better, and I'd like to think if VW had a couple more cracks at it, the same could have been said about his tuba concertos.

At the risk of possibly offending some of our British brethren,
If Catalinet had kept his mouth shut the VW concerto would probably be a much better piece.

kegmcnabb · Post by **kegmcnabb** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:06 pm

Greg wrote:
Greg wrote:Bill Clinton
Sorry, I meant George Clinton

Wow, what a great idea! My first (and, I am sure, predictable) choice...

Second choice...

I have done 4'33" on tuba but would prefer something written specifically for tuba (and with...uhm...notes), much like his Composed Improvisation for Steinberger Bass which I have performed many times on my Steinberger for new music audiences.

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:30 pm

Barbara York.

hehehe....

But, in reality (since Barbara already has done so, and more on the way from what I understand)...how 'bout

Sousa
Wagner
Vivaldi
Ravel
Gershwin
Respighi

In fact, why don't we just name off every composer who ever lived?

I wonder why the tuba players of Wagner's time and following, and the euph players from early Sousa days on, didn't fight and cajole and pay? You'd think Mantia would have been able to inspire more composers than he did.

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:52 pm

knuxie wrote:Barbara's very much alive....

Ken F.

really? It wasn't obvious that I KNOW that?

But, so is John Adams, John Williams, Danny Elfman, others that have been mentioned.

sheesh

Mwtuba32 · Post by **Mwtuba32** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:42 pm

Wagner!

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:25 pm

the elephant wrote:I really wish that John Williams would do another one for us. I have always felt that the first one was a pretty bad piece of music with little memorable melodic content and an orchestration that overwhelms the soloist most of the time.

I completely agree with you Wade! I was most disappointed when I first heard it. In the same concert was his music for The Reivers and I so much more enjoyed the tuba solo in that!

For my nominations;

Prokofiev
Shostakovitch
Tchaikovsky
Elgar
George Lloyd

... might all have written a good tuba concerto

I would have added Wagner and Mahler, but they didn't write concertos

I wonder why no one thought of it? After all they all wrote good orchestral tuba parts.

Jonathan "thinking what might have been"

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:16 am

knuxie wrote:No Schoenberg, Webern, or Berg? Hmmm.....

No 12-tone aficionados weighing in, I see...

Ken F.

I knew I forgot something!
I'd love a piece by Webern. I'm not as much a fan of the other two, for whatever reason.

Dan Castillo wrote:
tubafatness wrote:-I wish that Morton Feldman had written an actual solo for the tuba
You could easily write one just like him. First, pick a few of your favorite pitches then distribute them randomly in "graphical notation"; remember, no actual durations, so the performer can hold them for as long or as little as they like. Then mark the whole thing to be played muted at triple piano. The piece should also be about 45 minutes long. For the title you should use For Morton Feldman.

just kiddin'!

Not cool....(although I get what you're talking about!)

Tubaguyry · Post by **Tubaguyry** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:58 am

Only one person besides me is going to vote for Shostakovich? That's shocking to me. I would also beg Hindemith to write more stuff for solo tuba, since the sonata kicks such an epic proportion of ***.

Others:

Chopin
Beethoven
Schumann
Poulenc
Saint-Saens
Corelli

And finally, I think a Charles Ives tuba concerto would have blown some minds.

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