Contrabass Digest

2000-05-10

Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:45:35 -0500
From: Richard Fenno <rfenno @ earthlink.net>
Subject: [CB] Bass Saxophone: Big Fun in the Pits

We started rehearsing Music Man for a local semi-pro/pro production
(featuring Larry Gatlin as Prof. Hill) last weekend, and we shuffled the
parts around so that we covered both the bassoon parts and bass saxophone
parts. Most of these have bassoon transposition as an alternate, and it took
a bit of brainwork to get all the voicings covered (we are 4 reed players
covering 5 parts, too--so we're all playing pic, flute, clarinet . . . and
so on).

I gotta tell you though, there is no better instrument to cover these
quasi-ragtime bass lines than the bass saxophone. If you've got one, get
some work in the pits!

Anybody else have similar experiences?

Richard Fenno
Austin, Texas

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From: "Jean Adler" <jean @ espressocom.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:35:11 -0500
Subject: [CB] the pits

 Hey Richard,
I am currently doing West Side Story.  The biggest problem is the number of
woodwind instruments in the pit. 5 players and a total of 14 instruments.
My question is this:  Where do you put them all?!?
Jean

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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:35:10 -0400
From: "Abigail S. Tenenbaum" <abi @ brandeis.edu>
Subject: Re: [CB] the pits

Quoting Jean Adler <jean @ espressocom.com>:
>  Hey Richard,
> I am currently doing West Side Story.  The biggest problem is the number of
> woodwind instruments in the pit. 5 players and a total of 14 instruments.
> My question is this:  Where do you put them all?!?
> Jean

Aha!  So the contrabassers have finally figured out the foible of the
contrabass instrument - sheer mass!!!

Abi

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