Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: TWO-TUBA orchestral works


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Posted by Richard on October 28, 2000 at 20:19:30:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: TWO-TUBA orchestral works posted by Chuck Jackson on October 28, 2000 at 15:01:23:

Good answer. That was "American Creed". Waste of time. Funny thing is, Harris recycled the second mvt. as the finale of his 6th Symphony. Same basic outline, but a much better, even highly effective piece. Sorry you didn't care for Johnny. It's a real product of its time - early Depression art, like Benton, and those frescos at Rockefeller Center. The effect is somewhat vitiated by the revision. You didn't get to hear or play the very dark ominous variation with the tenor and bass tubas that anticipates Bernard Hermann, because it ain't there anymore. There's excellent Harris, the 8th and 9th Syms by the Albany Symphony on Albany. Though I'll admit, a lot of musicians don't like Harris.

BTW, Jerry Schwarz and the Seattle have only recorded the Creed and the Johnny. What they've done all of is the Hanson symphonies. There's a lot of repertoire that a few people like Schwarz, Thomas, and Slatkin are doing, and few others because they are too lazy, and they don't want to be continually duking it out with recalcitrant boards and concert mangagers. With few exceptions, the programming at the New York Phil this season is bland beyond belief.

BTW, Berlioz Damnation of Faust has two tubas. The penultimate scene, Pandemonium, the fall into Hell and demonic choruses, the tuba part is marked "a2". Typical Berlioz, you sit for hours to play a March and couple of choral numbers, but unlike Dvorak's 8th and 9th, this stuff is worth playing. One might say damn good writing. A hell of a part.


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