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Young guy. Cool.

Congrats!

Dents Be Gone! wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:32 am A little bird told me that there’s a newly appointed tuba with the Nashville Symphony. His name is Chandler Currier, a student of Alan Baer at The Juilliard School and a 2021 graduate of The Interlochen Arts Academy.

Congrats to Alan and Chandler!

The Horn Guys posted his picture on FB. Good for him. Symphony jobs on tuba can be had to get.

Didn't know there was a vacancy! Who left?

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 3:02 pm Didn't know there was a vacancy! Who left?

Gilbert Long, after around 45 years of playing with them. He started in 1978.

I remember being in the 12th grade and sitting with someone in a pizza parlor who was going to go off to Sewanee Music Center for the summer and looking at a piece of paper that told all the basic information about it, as - back then - there really weren't that many slick brochures about very many things, and seeing Gilbert's name listed (no idea who he was or where he lived) as teaching the tuba. I was (just barely) beginning to transition over from being hired to play the guitar to being hired to play the tuba, and wondered if I ought to take some tuba lessons from somebody, but shrugged it off and finished my pizza.

I'm not sure whether he and I met more than once, but he drove over to Memphis decades later and I did some stuff to his Willson tuba for him...' nice man.