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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.

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

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

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

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

Casca Grossa wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:33 am 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

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)

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:52 am 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.

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.

Sounds great!!! Thanks for sharing!

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

Nice job

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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...