Is that the version you played, Les? B & H also has one like that, and it isn't anything to get excited about.
ajr > Well......they actually may have had good reason: some editions (I believe > Boosey is one) swap the higher alto trombone licks with the trumpets == > and so ultimately, in this arranged version, the 'bones really don't have > much to get excited about! > > Les Marsden > (209) 966-6988 > New Cell: (559) 708-6027 > 7145 Snyder Creek Road > Mariposa, CA 95338-9641 > > Founding Music Director and Conductor, > The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra > Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! > > http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html > http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dean M. Estabrook > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon reed by itself > (SomewhatOT) > > > Geez ... and the trb. section looked so calm the other night! > Perhaps they were petrified. > > Thanks, > > Dean > > On Jan 20, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > Yup, we see it as making us wait 300 years to play with the big > > boys, THEN we STILL have to wait until the last freakin' movement > > when our chops are nice and stiff from lack of use, THEN he makes > > the first trombone enter (first entrance in HISTORY, not just this > > symphony!) cold on a high C (almost guaranteed to chip it and > > embarrass the entire brotherhood as a result) AND later in the > > movement he makes him play a high F (this is test!) just to see if > > he was paying attention. To my knowledge, there is no higher note > > written in the standard repertoire until late in the 20th century. > > Talk about your opening night nerves! > > > > And I don't have any first-hand knowledge of how those trombonists > > made out their first night, but after the 6th (he gave them another > > chance), Ludwig didn't write trombones into a symphony again until > > the 9th, so maybe that is a hint. > > > > Although in the 9th, the voice of God is represented by the men in > > the chorus, plus the bass trombone. We trombonists see that as > > typical typecasting. 8-) > > > > Christopher > > > > (strictly speaking, there were trombones the year before Beethoven > > in Eggert's Symphony in Eflat, but he wasn't as influential, so > > Beethoven gets the credit here. Chalk one up for P.R. and > > reputation...) > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
