Posted by Klaus on October 04, 2001 at 21:18:58:
In Reply to: Quartet and orchestra/band piece wanted. posted by AC on October 04, 2001 at 21:06:26:
What about taking some opera male choruses more or less wholesale.
Out of my head I seem to remember a sailors chorus from Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and a soldiers chorus from Gounod’s Faust.
I am not 100% positive, but I seem to remember that O Isis und Osiris from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte has a 3 part male chorus. And then your bass tuba can do Sarastro’s solo in that aria.
If you want a real challenge, then let your quartet play the opening cello quartet of Rossini’s Wilhelm Tell overture.
Klaus