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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:30:01 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: Congressional Overture
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>Love it! Congress needs some staff people and lobbyists, too. How about
>using the tubas and contrabass clarinets for the support staff people,
>according to the natural party division as above, with organ for counsel to
>the majority and bagpipes for counsel to the minority? Bull fiddles for
>lobbyists, of course. Maybe violas could play the much-abused, overworked,
>under-appreciated and of course *shapely* pages.I saw it just the other way: who can harrumph better than a tuba?
OK, maybe a contrabassoon... It seems to me that the senators, the
"heavy hitters", should be (individually) tuba, bass (or contrabass)
trombone, contrabassoon, contrabass sarrusophone, contrabass
clarinet, and the bass section. With maybe a tenor sax and/or
English horn, played molto schmaltzo, thrown in for contrast. Other
party members correspond to "lighter" members of the section: horns
with tuba, tenor trombones with the bass, bassoons with the contra,
perhaps alto and soprano sax with the sarrusophone, etc. The
trumpets will already be busy playing patriotic fanfares every 16
bars or so. The support people, pages, staff, etc., (flutes,
clarinets, oboes, remaining strings, triangle, and mallet percussion)
should be *flying* around these leviathans like flocks of sparrows.
For counsel, I hear three like voices (perhaps bassoons or saxes)
playing in cannon, but ending up going in different directions.We will now have a voice vote for key and number of movements... ;-)
Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------From: "J. Daniel Ashton" <jdashton@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:21:15 -0500
Subject: Re: New CD...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com<nofill>>>>>>> "GG" == Grant Green wrote:
GG> The contrabass wasn't used on E&WR, but is well in evidence in
GG> Sangoma and other works. Our concerts are all recorded digitally by
GG> Johnson Digital Audio. We typically sell CDs at our concerts, but I
GG> *think* we'll also ship, if anyone is interested. Contact me for
GG> details.I'll bite. How much?
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mailto:jdashton@southern.edu J. Daniel Ashton ICQ# 9445142
mailto:jdashton@us.ibm.com http://www.southern.edu/~jdashton
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 23:30:21 -0500
From: Edward Branham <ebb@usa.net>
Subject: Re: Saxophones in China
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comSign me up!
Grant Green wrote:
> The following forwarded message is *for real*:
>
> **********************************************************
> The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra have been invited by the China
> Performing Arts Agency<snip>
> The date of departure
> from the US will be April 26 or 27, 2000. Workshops and rehearsals
> will be on April 29 and 30, and the concert will be on May 1. Return
> date can be flexible (and remember, if you leave Beijing on May 3rd
> you will get home the same day!).
>
> If you might be interested, please fill out the form below and send
> to Don Stevens <stevens@cruzio.com>. And please tell anyone you know
> who might be interested (you can disseminate using "send again"
> instead of "forward" to avoid extra typographical clutter).
>
> The more players we have, the more spectacular the event--and we hope
> that players from a broad age span, from good high school players on
> up, will apply. By the end of January we will tally the numbers and
> see if we have critical mass. Our Prez is non-commital so far, but
> will check his schedule.
>
> Also, let us know if you, your business or school might be willing to
> sponsor scholarships for this trip.
>
> If you are a professional player and would like to participate as a
> workshop leader, please let me know.
>
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From: Heliconman@aol.com
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 01:44:44 EST
Subject: Re: Saxophones in China
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comTwo things on this Millenium Sax gig.
The millenium begins 1/1/2001!!!
I noticed in a quoted version of this message that the WX-11 is an accepted
"sax".
Does this mean I might possibly qualify with my Casio Digital Horn?!
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:20:18 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: Saxophones in China
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>I noticed in a quoted version of this message that the WX-11 is an accepted
>"sax".
>Does this mean I might possibly qualify with my Casio Digital Horn?!I think you're reading Ed's application, where he lists the
instruments he can play. Doesn't mean that the NW are interested in
all of them. Probably depends on how many "real" saxophones sign up...Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:21:39 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: Saxophones in China
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comEd, you have to send this to Don Stevens, stevens@cruzio.com.
>Sign me up!
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:26:33 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: New CD...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com> >>>>>> "GG" == Grant Green wrote:
>GG> The contrabass wasn't used on E&WR, but is well in evidence in
>GG> Sangoma and other works. Our concerts are all recorded digitally by
>GG> Johnson Digital Audio. We typically sell CDs at our concerts, but I
>GG> *think* we'll also ship, if anyone is interested. Contact me for
>GG> details.
>
>I'll bite. How much?I think they're either $12 or $15. Possibly a charge for postage and
handling, depending on how many mail-order requests they get.
Unfortunately, the person handling the CDs doesn't have email (or
hasn't told us what it is), but if all who are interested let me know
soon (e.g., before next Tuesday, our last rehearsal for the year),
I'll see how they want to handle it.Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:40:51 -0500
From: John Howell <John.Howell@vt.edu>
Subject: Contrabass Singers
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>Some Mozart piece, although I forget which one it is, requires a low D to
>be held, which is in the Guinness Book for the lowest note in any musical
>work sung by the human voice.It isn't, by a long way. Josquin's funeral motet "Nymphs des bois" (early
16th century) ends with a low Bb, and there are low Bbs in some Gabrielli
pieces (early 17th century). The operative question, though, is what
actual pitch (in modern terms) was represented by those written Bbs. For a
modern example, I think the Rachmaninoff Vespers service has Bbs as well.
A low D is just no big deal for a true bass--but then there aren't all that
many true basses!John
John & Susie Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:John.Howell@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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From: CoolStu67@aol.com
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:53:05 EST
Subject: Re: Contrabass Singers
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com
<<
A low D is just no big deal for a true bass--but then there aren't all that
many true basses!
>>A D being the first one under the bass clef, or an octave lower? I suspect
the post about the low D might have been talking about the low low D.What defines a true bass? My lowest vocal note to sound great is Eb, then D
isn't as full and strong, and Db is very very weak. My true upper range is
crap, my highest note is a Eb above the bass staff (a limited two octave
range); my fasletto is not bad at all, I can reach a little above the treble
staff (a G or A). Is there voice training to extend one's range? I sure would
love to be able to belt out a low C!Stuart
BTW, I'm fifteen--- will my voice naturally deepen over the years?
---------------------------------------------------------From: "Bret Newton" <jbnbsn99@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Contrabass Singers
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:46:40 CST
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comSome how I want to think that my cousin, who sings bass, told me once that
the Rachmaninoff Vespers, has a low G in it, which he had to song. He added
the story that when Andrew Litton (the musical director for the Dallas
Symphony) heard this he immedietly started looking for the synthesizer, and
was in shock when he found that there was none.
Bret Newton
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---------------------------------------------------------From: Slvrkys76@aol.com
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:13:22 EST
Subject: Re: [Contra digest]
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comIn a message dated 12/05/1999 11:21:51 AM Pacific Standard Time,
John.Howell@vt.edu writes:<<
>But, lets face it. We're just being sentimental about the "old tried and
>true" cane reeds and wooden instruments. The real reason we don't use a
>fibre-cane reed is that it sounds bad. If I could find one that played like
>real cane and sounded as well, I'd use it.
>Fred
>>Funny thing about reading this thread was that a few weeks ago, as a jest, I
attended a community band rehearsal with my metal bass clarinet, using a
crystal mouthpiece, and a clear Bari brand synthetic reed. No wood there at
all. It was a hoot.Matthew Hanson
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