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Canadian Brass plays 2 selections (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
Jun 2023
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Aristus
(68,556 posts)1. I've been a fan of the Canadian Brass since I was in eighth grade.
I took up the tuba because of Charles Daellenbach. I saw them in concert in Tacoma about twenty-five years ago, and got all their autographs on the liner-notes booklet from my CD of their Baroque album.
sprinkleeninow
(20,571 posts)2. Cool! 👊
Aristus
(68,556 posts)3. I've long been an advocate for greater respect for the tuba.
Last edited Sat Jun 3, 2023, 05:52 PM - Edit history (1)
It's almost always used as musical shorthand for fat, comical, clumsy, slow, stupid. I hate that.
Even the great John Williams used the tuba that way, in Otis's Theme from "Superman, The Movie", and Jabba's Theme from "Return Of The Jedi".
But James Horner actually let the tuba be beautiful, especially in his music for the launch scene in "Apollo 13."
And Ludwig Goransson made the tuba bad-ass, in his cue from "The Mandalorian" soundtrack "You Are A Mandalorian."
sprinkleeninow
(20,571 posts)4. "Tuba respect." Righteous.