I love orchestra

bigthemat · #1 02-23-2008, 10:00 PM

Just finished playing with my school's Philharmonic Orchestra. We did Holst's Perfect Fool, premiered a Libby Larson piece for the Barlow Endowment, and we closed with Mahler 4.

Oh, and I was playing trumpet

. So much fun sittin in the back blowing loud and proud.

bassaficionado6 · #2 02-23-2008, 10:30 PM

I love the sounds of the orchestra, however, I cannot play in them.

jsingles · #3 02-23-2008, 11:00 PM

I JUST got home from my second row seat in the boston symphony hall

TunaCaserole · #4 02-23-2008, 11:02 PM

I prefer Chamber music but, a great Violin Concerto is awesome. If its not Baroque don't fix it!!

bigthemat · #5 02-24-2008, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsingles

I JUST got home from my second row seat in the boston symphony hall

undoubtedly one of, if not, the best halls. I miss boston. What did they play?

Samthebassist · #6 02-25-2008, 08:08 PM

hey im on orchestra!!!!

Sick of always bein in the back tho...with all these rests and wut not.....seriously... measures upon measures of rests....

at least in jazz band..w/t u....they die...and there is like NO rests wutsoever...honestly..i have yet to have a few measure of rest....my hand gets tired....stupid electric upright..its got too thin of a neck...

bigthemat · #7 02-25-2008, 11:36 PM

yeah its work playing everything in jazz. That is my main gig, doing jazz in my combo. But I originally am a classical trumpeter, and it is so much fun blasting mahler.

mkandolf · #8 02-29-2008, 09:38 AM

Beginning of the month I played the upright in the local high school's musical production of "Crazy For You" the Gershwin musical. Second year in a row I helped them out. Really rewarding working with the kids. This was the first many of them saw an upright and I got to introduce them to it with "Slap That Bass!" The director had me play the bass on stage during a couple practices to show the kid faking it on stage how it's done. Playing slap style and spinning the upright... I got a standing O'!

I talked with the music director and he is putting an upright on his wanted list from the Band Parents' Assoc.

rfclef · #9 02-29-2008, 10:58 AM

After being a concert band guy all my life, I spent a couple years playing with a community orchestra (tuba, of course). Was a lot of fun. PLayed some real nice stuff. Different playing with strings. One highlight was a piece we played called Concerto Gross, in which my tuxedo'ed self put the tuba down, and stood in front of the orchestra as part of the kazoo trio. lol.