My Short Recital with video links

[MN_TimTuba]

Vocalise Op. 34/14 for Tuba and Piano
By Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)/ arr. Virginia Allen



Two Moods for Tuba
By Donald Swann. (1923-1994)
1. Elegy
2. Scherzo



Bop Duet #6
By Bugs Bower (1922-2020)



Not thrilled with how this turned out, but it also could have been worse.

Full disclosure... The Duet was a do over. During the performance there was a glitch with the audio track, and it wasn't pretty. We re-recorded it later.

[York-aholic]

Sounds nice to me. Good to hear that York Eb. Thank you for posting that.

[MN_TimTuba]

Thanks for posting, Mark! I always enjoy hearing you play.
The Two Moods by Swann is a particular favorite of mine. Your rendition has inspired me to try it on my Eb. Does anyone make a curved mute for a small bell front tuba?
Tim

[LeMark]

Humes and berg used to.... I know Joe was looking for one for a long time

[Casca Grossa]

Your performance that you "aren't thrilled with" is way better than my absolute best day of playing. Sounded great to me.

[Casca Grossa]

Your performance that you "aren't thrilled with" is way better than my absolute best day of playing. Sounded great to me.

Thank you very much. I was just a bit down because I've been practicing a ton thinking that would help my chops from shaking, and it was worse than ever

[bloke]

I haven't listened, and may not.

I takes more courage to post a recording of one's own performance (for a bunch of same-instrument players) than it takes to actually do the performance, so there's that - for which I congratulate your courage.

different (better?) tuba...
If a tuba requires far fewer adjustments, there's a possibility that something like a nervous tremor (or the condition known as "essential tremor" - which is a thing with one of my siblings) could possibly be reduced, as factors which trigger either one might possibly be reduced, eh? (bloke: guessing)

I've noticed that - when my sibling picks up a full cup of coffee - their tremor is more severe. When they pick up their partially-consumed cup of coffee (less chance of spillage) their hand tremor is less severe. (again: a bloke's unschooled/non-scientific observation)

[LeMark]

I haven't listened, and may not.

I takes more courage to post a recording of one's own performance (for a bunch of same-instrument players) than it takes to actually do the performance, so there's that - for which I congratulate your courage.

different (better?) tuba...
If a tuba requires far fewer adjustments, there's a possibility that something like a nervous tremor (or the condition known as "essential tremor" - which is a thing with one of my siblings) could possibly be reduced, as factors which trigger either one might possibly be reduced, eh? (bloke: guessing)

I've noticed that - when my sibling picks up a full cup of coffee - their tremor is more severe. When they pick up their partially-consumed cup of coffee (less chance of spillage) their hand tremor is less severe. (again: a bloke's unschooled/non-scientific observation)

I do have to wonder how much the combination of Standing and being a bit nervous at my first recital in 33 years had something to do with it.

[bloke]

We aren't asked to perform solos very often, but I always accept the invitation, because I think it causes me to pull things back together a little bit more than maybe I had been doing.

I was supposed to be on an oddball potpourri chamber recital (that was canceled due to the shutdown), where I was going to play a couple of things written for other instruments, as I really don't care for very many things written for solo tuba. (ie. Pow pow, pow-pow pow pow. Tucka-tucka-tucka-tucka tut tut tut, etc...)
One of those pieces I had chosen was a Saint-Saëns thing, and another was a Poulenc thing. I had been enthusiastically working on both of those.

An odd exception (where I just couldn't get myself motivated to practice) was when we were looking (during shutdown) for a solo brass piece that could be fit into a 1-hour brass ensemble/choir concert, and I found that there was a brass choir trancribed accompaniment for the entire Vaughan Williams thing. I offered up the second movement, and it seemed to be a good fit, because it didn't take up a large percentage of the 1-hour concert.

(By the way, the restrictions were so goofy that - in order for enough people to hear it - we had to do a 1-hour concert, clear out everyone, have some people go in there and spray magic wiffle dust all over the place, and then we had to do another 1-hour concert...this, in addition to the restriction of it only being one hour.) 60 minutes was "safe", but 61.1 minutes could KILL !!!!

Anyway, I just couldn't get that excited about practicing. I know the whole concerto far beyond memorization, played through the movement two or three times prior to the first rehearsal - along with a piano accompaniment which I found on YouTube, and that's actually all the practicing I did. Mrs bloke seemed concerned that I really wasn't working on it very much. (The performances were fine, being that I used the F tuba that plays itself.) I'm thinking that my lack of motivation was probably tied in with the idiocy of the shutdown, and all the chaos it was causing - probably another factor being that had worked on that piece so much in the past that I just couldn't get excited about reviewing it yet again.

[cktuba]

Sounds great!!! Thanks for sharing!

[bloke]

new links are up! Slightly better Audio than the rough cut up put up last night

[Dan Tuba]

Nice job

[peterbas]

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[bloke]

OK...
I'm now going to have to listen - based on the compliments of those whose opinions I respect.
I'm sure there's plenty of great stuff in there...