Funny -- mine too, Aaron! The d" as top of the range in my trombone concerto, I mean. I didn't really want to push my luck, but needn't have worried. My commissioning soloist is a real hot dog - and just tossed off a pretty challenging concerto, damn him!
Welllll.....maybe I got the last laugh. By the end of the 20-minute piece, he's REALLY sweating AND remarkably discolored! Ray - do you know him? Thomas Ashworth - - teaches at U Minn/St. Paul and plays with the St.Paul Chamber & Minnesota Orchs? Best, Les 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: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon reed by itself (SomewhatOT) Hmm--we don't have any film of my trying those notes--the colors were probably hysterical! I only took my trombone concerto up to d". ajr > Yup - had no choice. My trombonists didn't have alto 'bones and their > faces turned some rather unfortunate shades when attempting the original > pitches.... > > 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: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon reed by itself > (SomewhatOT) > > > Is that the version you played, Les? B & H also has one like that, and > it > isn't anything to get excited about. > > ajr _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
