January stuff

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:46 pm

If anyone is around Athens, I will be presenting a "listener friendly" tuba recital at the University of Georgia on Wednesday, January 19 at 8PM in Ramsey Hall. The program will be repeated at JanFest on Friday, January 21 at 8 in the morning. (yikes!)

The program looks like this:

Barat- Introduction and Dance
Wilhelm- Concertino
Corwell- Aboriginal Voices
Three Ballads:Ihlenfeld- Clouds, Crockett- Mystique, Sondheim- Send in the Clowns
Pilafian- Tuba Blues (an unaccompanied set of variations on a blues riff)
Catozzi- Beelzebub

Sam's piece has not yet arrived, but sounds like it will be very cool and an attractive vehicle down the road for us dinosaurs who still love our big tubas.

Also, on the evening of the 21st, I'll play the first movement of the Horovitz Concerto with the UGA Wind Ensemble. They will be premiering a new multi-movement work by Eric Ewazen on the same program. Should be a cool concert.

Sorry for the crass commercial announcement!

Dave
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~dzerkel

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:14 pm

Hi Ron.

It's not published yet because it's not finished yet! Sam does plan to publish it once we come up with a great working copy!

Best,
Dave

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:11 am

There has been a program change. For reasons beyond my control, I won't be able to progran Sam's new piece. I will shuffle the program a little bit and add Strauss 1.

Thanks, and I'll hope to see one or two of you there!

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:58 pm

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:20 pm

Your second performance was this morning, while I was at the National Cathedral playing a brass quintet prelude to the Inauguration Prayer Service. You worked harder than I did this morning, but I took the prize for yesterday. What's the scoop on the new Ewazen piece? Published? Fun? Anybody boo at the end? I'm interested...

Wish I could have been there to hear the show. You know I mean it-- I REALLY wish I'd been THERE...

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:34 pm

Tom Holtz wrote: What's the scoop on the new Ewazen piece? Published? Fun? Anybody boo at the end? I'm interested...

No booing. It's really a nice piece, but like all of his tunes, 37% too long. The band played two movements of a four movement suite tonight... 20 minutes later, they played the next piece. They will do all four movements in Savannah next week at GMEA...I'll give you the full report!

Dave "probably going to hell for criticizing the lack of brevity" Zerkel

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:35 pm

David Zerkel wrote:They will do all four movements in Savannah next week at GMEA...I'll give you the full report!

I've got his concerto on my stand right now, and I'm diggin' it, so I wouldn't mind taking a swing at his new piece, too. I hope there's a piano reduction for the accompaniment. His concerto is published through Southern Music, I'm assuming the new chart will go through there as well.

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:37 pm

Hey Tom.

I'm afriad you misunderstood...the new Ewazen piece is for band only. I don't think he has anything new in the works for tuba, but he'll be on campus this week and I'll ask him if he has any intent to do another tuba work.

Sorry for the confusion!

Best,
DZ

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:29 am

David Zerkel wrote:I'm afriad you misunderstood...the new Ewazen piece is for band only.

Well, duh. Hey, my scholarship wasn't for brain power. Anyway, hope springs eternal, I wouldn't complain if he gave the tuba another nice chart.