...and not just a bunch of obligatory F tuba crap (which would be the easy way out)...but (maybe?) a completely (big fat bast...) CONTRABASS tuba recital...
In past years, there were usually four chamber music recitals annually (optional to the patrons, and not included with season tickets).
The new E.D. likes pops concerts, has cancelled the chamber music series, and has been sending a no-regular-orchestra-members rock band out into the community - instead of the chamber series...but maybe (??) I could convince them anyway.
- It would force me to really work up some things to the best I can play them, and put even more thought into phrasing, music, quasi-showmanship, etc.
- (Even though a tuba recital is usually a novelty) a CONTRABASS tuba recital would be EVEN MORE of a novelty.
- It probably shouldn't be terribly long (with most stuff below middle C, and anything around middle C sounding pretty "hooty".
- I'd need them to pay for a particular/remarkable pianist (who lives over an hour from me, and two hours from the city where the orchestra is located).
- The M.D. REALLY likes me, so (???) maybe...
I believe I would put together five (unrelated - from all different suites, but put together to come off as a suite) Bach cello dance movements, Play the opus 94 Schumann Romances, the Walter Hartley Sonata, and (??) maybe one more piece. You know (rather than yet another piece)...and this could be boring or interesting, but I could play some (a handful of...plus requests...??
) excerpts from orchestral works that they know (as we've all heard contrabass tuba ONLY on all of that mess FOREVER, but they've NEVER heard any of it all by itself) and answer questions ("How heavy is that thing?" "Do you ever wish you'd played the piccolo?" "When you move that tube up there, how much air does it pump into that thing?")...eh?
and weaknesses 
of each instrument.