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Canadian Brass plays 2 selections (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Jun 2023 OP
I've been a fan of the Canadian Brass since I was in eighth grade. Aristus Jun 2023 #1
Cool! 👊 sprinkleeninow Jun 2023 #2
I've long been an advocate for greater respect for the tuba. Aristus Jun 2023 #3
"Tuba respect." Righteous. sprinkleeninow Jun 2023 #4
... Aristus Jun 2023 #5

Aristus

(68,390 posts)
1. I've been a fan of the Canadian Brass since I was in eighth grade.
Sat Jun 3, 2023, 11:24 AM
Jun 2023

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.

Aristus

(68,390 posts)
3. I've long been an advocate for greater respect for the tuba.
Sat Jun 3, 2023, 12:40 PM
Jun 2023

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."



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