Posted by Rick Denney on February 23, 2001 at 11:02:04:
In Reply to: What is on your practice stand? posted by Randy Mac Iver on February 22, 2001 at 08:13:17:
I've been trying to figure out how to answer this question. My entire tuba solo, excerpt, quartet, and quintet library is piled around my practice area in the basement, and there's no telling where I might be tempted to go. These are usually near to hand:
Marcello Sonata in F
Marcello Sonata in C
Bach Air and Bourree
Bordogni/Rochut
Rachmaninoff Vocalise
Hartley Unaccompanied Suite
Scale studies
And then there are the current assignments:
An American in Paris (but not for the same reasons as Scott Mendoker, heh, heh)
Eternal Father (the Smith arrangement--whew!)
Nilesdance, which is a counting exercise masking as music by Holsinger
Reed's First Suite for Band
and a few others
Finally, there's the Fantasy Set:
Gregson
Vaughan Williams
and too many others to mention
In any given session, I might get on an excerpt kick, and pull out the Torchinsky library, or I might get on a quintet kick, or maybe tonight's the night for some extended euphonium playing, or whatever. I let the music take me, which is one of the reasons I don't improve as much as I could.
Rick "who has fun anyway" Denney