Mahler 2 Cymbal

[Mark]

If you are the cymbal player and you miss that crash at the end of the brass choral, your life is a total failure.

[Ace]

Are you speaking autobiographically?

Ace

[the elephant]

Sorry. It had to be added to your post. Had to.

[bloke]

How about if you are flown in from a thousand miles away - to cover the snare drum, cymbal, and triangle in Dvorak 9, and you miss both of the cymbal “whisks” tied in with those diminished arpeggios?

bloke “no… If didn’t happen, but what if?”

… or - if you’re the tuba guy (being paid the same as everyone else), and crack your D-flat entrance after the last English horn solo?

[windshieldbug]

How about if you are flown in from a thousand miles away - to cover the snare drum, cymbal, and triangle in Dvorak 9, and you miss both of the cymbal “whisks” tied in with those diminished arpeggios?

Then I guess it's a looooooong flight back...

[ProAm]

You might not be given another opportunity in the future. Your return flight might be spent wallowing in remorse if that bothers you.

Owning or having access to an exotic instrument is a help for fly in $$. Our local group has had to go 2 states away to find a contrabasson when the local one wasn’t available. How common is a cimbalom and cimbalom player for the Hary Janos Suite?

[bloke]

I have a friend - older than me and impeccable credentials/fine trombone player - who will dwell on one chipped note or one slightly mis-executed jazz figure in an entire concert of superb playing.

‘ way to hard on himself…

[edfirth]

Slightly off topic Bill Bell was hired to play Pictures with, I think it was, Houston. He clammed Bydlo pretty badly and mailed them the check back. Gotta love the "B" man. Ed

[Mark]

Are you speaking autobiographically?

No, I was watching the Royal Concertgebouw and I thought I detected a little stress on the percussionist's face. (And a little surprise on the face of the woman behind him.)