Re: There is NO Harmonica Concerto


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Posted by Steve Marcus on January 30, 2002 at 23:30:29:

In Reply to: There is NO Harmonica Concerto posted by Bill Nazzaro on January 30, 2002 at 12:49:21:

James Goodfriend's liner notes on the RCA LP that contains the Fletcher/Previn/LSO recording of the VW Tuba Concerto read as follows:

"The Tuba Concerto is a late work of the composer's, dating from 1954 (Vaughan Williams died August 26, 1958, in his 86th year). A few years earlier he had composed a Romance for Harmonica and String Orchestra for Larry Adler, whom he told that if he didn't like the first version he would write a second, and if he didn't like the second, a third, but if he didn't like that, 'I'll rescore the whole thing for bass tuba.' Adler liked the first version, but perhaps Vaughan Williams' own comment put into his mind the idea of writing a concerted piece for tuba."


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