Repertoire Query

[jmh3412]

Just been booked to do the following pieces - any coments on interesting / challenging parts??

Symphonic Dances -Rachmaninov
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor - Bach/Elgar
Spitfire - Prelude and Fugue -Walton
Suite - Sleeping Beauty -Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien - Tchaikovsky
Banks of Green Willow - Butterworth
Swedish Rhapsody no.1 - ‘Midsummer’ - Alfven
Autumn (from ‘The Seasons’) - Glazunov
Skater’s Waltz - Waldteufel

[DavidJMills]

Waldteufel is actually a euphonium part. Luck's Music has a tuba part generated at some point by Arthur Luck. Just take your bass tuba and play whatever octave you want. davemills

[Chuck Jackson]

My hope for you AND the audience is that you aren't doing all of them on the same concert.

Rachmaninov- Nice part, meat and potatos- GET A RECORDING. IT IS TRICKY!!!!
Bach- Good blow, nice part
Tschaik- Good parts on both. Nothing fancy, just good solid stuff
Walton- Not sure, but it should have a meaty tuba part
Alfsven- If memory serves me correct, it has a part, nothing spectacular but it beats sitting around
Waldteufel- Tuba part is mundane at best. Good tune though

Butterworth- No tuba part. Nice piece though
Glazunov-No tuba part. Not his best work so you aren't missing anything.

These are all things you will play many times. Good big horn work out. In tune-on time would be your marching orders. Enjoy.

Chuck

[THE TUBA]

There is a Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble recording of the Walton with some pretty sweet tuba playing. I think there is a euph excerpt on an arrangement from Spitfire, but I don't remember if it is the same one... Regardless, it looks like a great lineup!