Mars and Marche Slave

[Tubajug]

Sorry, Jordan, I gave you all that information about The Planets because I failed to read your inquiry about MARS. My bad, man. Again, sorry...

No worries! Now I want to play that E in the Uranus movement...

[Radar]

Wish I lived closer, I'd jump at the chance to play that part on Euphonium with an orchestra. I'm sure as Bloke suggested there are any number of players in your area that would also like the opportunity.

[swillafew]

Planets:

Would Mr. Holst have expected to get the same horn we all call a euphonium as the tenor tuba? I noticed the other part is "Bass tuba" in the score and I expect that term has been used in more than one way.

[windshieldbug]

Planets:

Would Mr. Holst have expected to get the same horn we all call a euphonium as the tenor tuba?

Mr. Holst wouldn't have expected to get the same horn we call a trombone as the trombone!

[swillafew]

Nobody's asking me to play Mars, but already played "Bydlo" this year on an antique euphonium. It was a year older than Ravel's arrangement so I felt a little sense of history if not exactly being correct. Should the call come I don't want to embarrass myself more than normal.

[smitwill1]

I recall hearing a story that when asked the about the "tenor tuba" versus "euphonium" part Holst said something along the lines that the tenor tuba was a euphonium, but "without all that silly vibrato".
Bill

[Rick Denney]

Planets:

Would Mr. Holst have expected to get the same horn we all call a euphonium as the tenor tuba? I noticed the other part is "Bass tuba" in the score and I expect that term has been used in more than one way.

Mr. Holst was a British composer and brass player. He would have expected a euphonium. And the Bass tuba would have been a Barlow F with five valves, not that much bigger than a euphonium.

Rick "and pea-shooter trombones with a straight bass trombone in G, and narrow-bore trumpets, and so on" Denney

[swillafew]

It looks like the treble clef euphonium part to me. Lots of two octave spacing, I wouldn't have expected that. It looks like something that would require a lot of preparation, owing to exposed parts, independence of the line, and some high notes.