It's a 6yo Oscar Adler. I played it in the green bay youth symphony orchestra and in high school. It's in wonderful shape, plays beautifully, but I don't play...
The Sesame Street Chamber Music Society presents the Beethoven "Quartet for Two Honkers, Dinger and Cello" - by Murray(?) Beethoven with special guest Yo Yo...
Do a web search for Davie Cane, or go to http://www.argendonax.com.ar/index.asp? menu=64 From that site you can communicate directly with Gonzalez and order...
In Also Sprach Zarathustra, the opening low-C is impossibly difficult to maintain at the correct volume and pitch, at least on the reed and instrument I am...
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why would anyone want to hear this in an audition? and how would anyone gauge how long to hold the note anyhow? i've heard a concert performance where the ...
-- You could have someone ask the opening but I have never seen it done. The section that they will ask comes in the middle of the work and is rather exposed...
If I saw this in an audition, I would have to call it a "penance" excerpt. In other words, some other poor contra player couldn't play this passage in a...
Alejandro Vieira
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Sep 6, 2007 7:00 am
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Alex, you reminded me of an audition a few years back when I played the Ravel Left Hand Concerto. The entire first page was asked, meaning, all the low Es to...
Roger SOREN
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Sep 6, 2007 12:58 pm
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This did come up in the recent BBC Philharmonic auditions, so it IS an audition point. It is obviously something an audition panel would want to know - can...
... done. The section that ... between the contra, ... deal but after playing it a ... Just vent the low c ... the horn to do it. ... Juan, what exactly do...
I've read all of the responses and agree with most of the points presented - but the fact is that often orchestras (especially smaller orchestras) will ask for...
It is on Tucson Symphony's sub-list/contra audition this weekend. My pitch is stable, it just also happens to be very sharp on the low-C. Getting it down to...
This is a really off the wall solution that I have heard has been done. It may really be an urban legend. If anyone knows please respond. There is a bass...
having recently taken many many reed lessons with peter grenier of the dallas symphony let me again say that if you can't get this note to respond pp and quite...
... respond. ... into ... racket ... section ... Hey, can I get paid for a double then?? My bassoon teacher in high school was a baroque and renaissance ...
I usually keep good,but old, reeds around for this excerpt, and the "in Trutina" mov't from Carmina Burana. I find that an old reed seems more reliable than...
oh we're all human of course......lol...he has contra reeds figured out so those problems just don't happen is all and to play at that level (that of probably...
Contrabassoon: 6 year old Oscar Adler Model #MK13684, silver bell and keywork with rollers, maple body, 2 bocals, original case (black, vinyl covered flight...
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There is a ppp low c# in Turandot. My fox played it by itself! I use a very light reed, and relax. Unless your horn has been to an experienced (contra) repair...
Dear group- Many of our colleagues have made excellent comments and now I have a few moments to add to the discussion. To perform this passage, as well as any...
Steve's comments as well as everybody elses have been great. I know it's very difficult for an outsider(someone without a contra job, or steady gigs, and...
