another possible first

[bloke]

Unless – after the first rehearsal – nixed by either me personally or my friend the music director, this will be the first time that I will have played “all” three pieces (the three being the only three that I play on the concert, as I do not play on the concerto) with my cimbasso/contrabass trombone on a “classical“ subscription concert. Further (though all three are strongly “Latin“ themed in their style and harmonies), the three pieces were composed by people who lived thousands and thousands of miles apart from each other, and all three parts are designated “tuba“ at the top of the page – yet I very strongly suspect that the cimbasso/contrabass trombone will do a superior job of delivering all three of those pieces to the ears of the patrons… and no, I have no plans to overplay nor “blast” out any of those parts.

… other than possibly (??) the last note of one of them, which was actually composed by Mexican composer, is sort of is a piece-long crescendo – a bit like “Bolero”, and features a extremely strong “stinger“ - as the last chord of the piece.

[bloke]

NOPE

After listening to myself in the reading rehearsal,

I moved to FaBa BB-flat (Deutsch kaiser b-tuba) on the Western Hemisphere-composed "Latin" piece (possibly/probably a sousaphone - were perfect intonation easily accessible - would also have worked...??), and I moved over to F tuba on the Russian (probably originally performed on E-flat tuba) and French composed (obviously written for French tuba) "in the style of Spanish" pieces.

bloke "wrong again... "