question on solo material.

[tubafatness]

I was just wanting to get a general opinion on the pieces listed below. I basically looked throught the TUBA Press and picked out anything interesting. Any reply would be appreciated.
Thanks, Aaron "Tubafatness" Hynds

Elizabeth Raum-Sweet Dances, for solo tuba
Gary Nelson-Verdigris, for solo tuba
Robert Denham-Three Predicaments for solo tuba
Jeremy Beck-Tempus Fugit-solo tuba
James Curnow-Symphonic Variants, for tuba and piano
James Curnow-Concertino, for tuba and piano
Robert Grenier-Voodoo, for tuba and piano
Aaron Keim-Matins, for tuba and piano
Adriana Figueroa Manas-Tango Images, for tuba and piano
Gary Powell Nash-Deformation IV, for tuba and piano
Stephen Rush-Tuba Sonata, for tuba and piano
Elizabeth Raum-Secret, tuba with CD
Leonid Bashmakov-Mutu (tuba, woodwind quintet, 2 percussionists)
David Deason-Sy-Anita, for tuba and oboe

[MartyNeilan]

James Curnow-Symphonic Variants, for tuba and piano
James Curnow-Concertino, for tuba and piano

If you really want to "show off" get the Jim Curnow trumpet solo, Concertpiece. Concert band accompaniment is available. If you know trumpet fingerings (not hard to learn - just look at some of the people playing trumpet) just play it on BBb tuba and read the music as if you were playing trumpet. Will normally come out 2 octaves down; sometimes jumping an octave will give clarity to the long slurred runs on the last page.

And play it on a 6/4 bellfront

My two cents

[Chuck Jackson]

Elizabeth Raum's Sweet Dances is one of the hardest things I have ever seen. I reviewed it for the old TUBA Journal and my lips still hurt two years later trying to play through it. Big horn, small horn, still a bear on any one of them.

Chuck