Contrabass Digest

2001-04-06

From: "David Neubauer"
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:10:19 -0700
Subject: [CB] Concert on the web

Occasionally there are posts of folks performing in concert on their
contra instruments, so here's my next month (I'm a contrabassoonist in
Los Angeles).  I just did Brahms Fourth with the Downey Symphony on
Saturday, next is April 21st with the West Hollywood Orchestra on
Caltabiano "Pegasus: Music for a Great City" (World Premiere); Paine
"Overture to Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'"; Armer/LeGuin "The Great
Instrument of the Geggerets"; Copland "Our Town: Music from the Film
Score" and Carpenter "Skyscrapers: A Ballet of Modern American Life".
April 28th West Valley Symphony, Hanson "Second Symphony", and May
9-13 sitting in with the ISOMATA Orchestra (my brother, Violist Paul
Neubauer is the soloist) in Temecula and Thousand Oaks.

On top of that, I am still playing on amplified contra with the "Joe
Vento Big Band" every Wednesday night in Northridge on the Bass
Trombone part.  You can see a recent performance at www.oncircuit.com,
it was our first try with a web broadcast and came out okay depending
on your connection speed (it'll either appear smooth like TV or as a
bunch of stills).  They stuck some goofy guy named Lance in the show,
but he sang in front of, not with, the band.  I even have a solo
number "My Love for You" which you can almost hear (it's hard to mic a
Big Band with no practice - they just set up and shot).  A friend of
mine, Doug Cockfield is sitting next to me (also on Contra, but not
amplified).  Do check it out, it's great fun to play 2 hours straight
every week with such fun music!  I'd love it if we could have a line
of contras playing in there.  If any of you are in town on a Wednesday
and have your ax, no matter what it is, let me know, and I can arrange
for you to sit in.  More details on where the band plays is on my
website www.dnmagic.com on the schedule page.

Do let me know what you think.

David Neubauer
website www.dnmagic.com
band www.oncircuit.com
 

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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:56:19 -0400
From: Michael C Grogg
Subject: Re: [CB] A course in sarrusophone?

So it does.  Have you checked yet to see if they have a summer program,
or perhaps a student exchange program?  The degree program appears to a
BS in Business/Orchestral instruments, and the class requirements look
about average for a music school.

Which of course brings up the next question, how many used Sarrousaphones
are floating around the markets and Bizarres ( pun intended) in Columbia?
 If nothing else, it might be a resource worth following for a source of
reeds and blanks.

Since there is at least a little bit of tradition of instrument making in
Argentenia or Brazil, I wonder if there is a hidden maker of
Sarrousaphones in SA?  Weril apparently makes or has made some unusual
and somewhat archaic brass instruments, could it be they also produce
woodwinds as well?

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:32:15 -0700 Grant Green writes:

> Unless I'm just misunderstanding the language, it appears that the
> National University of Columbia offers an instrumental music course
> that includes sarrusophone: see
> http://www.unal.edu.co/viceaca/pregrados.htm

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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 20:43:49 -0700
From: "Timothy J. Tikker"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]

List Server wrote:

> Unless I'm just misunderstanding the language, it appears that the
> National University of Columbia offers an instrumental music course
> that includes sarrusophone: see
> http://www.unal.edu.co/viceaca/pregrados.htm

Looks pretty unmistakable and unambiguous!!

Wonder how many students major is sarrusophone?  Wonder what they do for instruments?

- Tim Tikker

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From: "Tom Izzo"
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:14:14 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] A course in sarrusophone?

: Re: [CB] A course in sarrusophone?
 

> So it does.  Have you checked yet to see if they have a summer program,

hahahahahahahaha
 

Did you notice they had majors for BOTH "Trompeta" & "Tromba".
hmmmmmmm, both are translations of Trumpet. Wonder if this page is "on the
level"?

Tom
 
 

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