From: Ken Shaw
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:27:41 EST
Subject: [CB] Wagner Tuba
>From Anna Russell's "Little Talk on Wagner's Ring":
"Sieglinde grows up and marries a fully little sort of a man called
Hunding. He plays the Wagner tuba. [music] He plays
it very well. Well, who should show up one day but Siegmund, and
he falls madly in love with Sieglinde, regardless of the fact that
she's married to somebody else, which is immoral, and she's his own
sister, which is illegal. But that's the beauty of grand opera,
you can do anything just so long as you sing it."
I have actually heard Wagner tubas, in a Solti/Chicago Symphony
concert many years ago, where they did some bleeding chunks of
Wagner. As I recall, it was the trombonists who picked up the
WTs, rather than the horn players, but I may be wrong. At any
rate, three of them played together, producing quite a soft tone,
midway between horn and euphonium.
Ken Shaw
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