Fun New Piece for Unaccompanied Tuba!

[David Zerkel]

My good friend Eric Alexander recently wrote a piece (upon my insistent requests!) called Five Dances for Unaccompanied Tuba. Eric is a great composer/arranger with mad trombone skills, so he wrote a work that was incredibly idiomatic for the big tuba. All five movements have a dance element-- very audience friendly!!

You may listen to the piece by visiting http://www.ugatubaeuph.com, and going to the Audio page.

I hope that you will enjoy the piece and maybe pick up a copy of your own!

Cheers!
DZ
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[DonShirer]

I wonder if your server is having problems. Wouldn't play the dances in one browser (although it played the tuba/euph ensemble), and loaded slow in Firefox and kept cutting off after just a few measures.

[toobagrowl]

^Perhaps. I got no sound at first. But I tried some of the other clips and then went back to the Five Dances and finally got sound. They sound great! Sounds like fun to play.

[David Zerkel]

Sorry you were having trouble, Don. Just worked fine for me minutes ago when using Safari. If problems persist, let me know and I'll do some detective work.

[TubaBobH]

FYI, I used Google Chrome and everything worked fine. BTW, nice composition, nice performance!

[DonShirer]

Tried again. Similar results as tooba. 5dances wouldn't play until I tried several other pieces. Then I was able to play all but the Ragtime Waltz which kept cutting out after a few seconds. Repeatable in both Safari and Firefox. The Hartley, Gillingham, Capuzzi and VaughnWilliams also exhibited the cutout.

I liked the dances I could hear, only I thought possibly there were too many repeats. With only a single instrument there is not too much variation besides volume, and audiences have short attention spans nowadays.

[averagejoe]

Worked perfectly instantly for me in firefox 4. Fun stuff, nice background music while internet surfing.

[Alex C]

I had to "temporarily allow pop-ups" to hear the clips. The server seemed slow as well but it worked and the clips sounded great.

The etude recording project on youTube... it proves Dave Zerkel is a brave man and a great player.

[David Zerkel]

The etude recording project on youTube... it proves Dave Zerkel is a brave man and a great player.

And/or a fool.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!