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Double Bass Community Orchestras...What are you playing this year?

NickyBass

NickyBass

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Nov 28, 2005
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#1
The fall season is about to start. I am curious to see what other community orchestra's are playing.

This year we are doing:

Fall:
BERLIOZ
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, S. 124
MAHLER
Symphony No. 1 in D Major “Titan”

Winter:
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
FAURÉ
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
BERNSTEIN
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Spring:
The best of John Williams

Here is a link to the website if anyone is interested: http://www.psnj.org/
 
#2
Lucky dog! Nice programs! :hyper:

The director of the community group I sit with takes each concert one at a time- no set predetermined program for the year.

The first two or three rehearsals are purely sight reading- sometimes brutally difficult stuff he has no expectation of us being able to play- but it's a good challenge for us, and it helps him gauge where we are and what might be appropriate. Aside from the main core players that are always there, the membership seems rather fluid- so this approach allows the director to select music that plays to our strengths.

I must also add that he has impeccable taste! I truely enjoy everything he selects for us! On the few occasions he's selected works that I didn't think I'd enjoy, I would invariably find those pieces to be my "new favorites"!

I do wish he would program the season- I've told him as much. I hate it when I feel like I didn't have enough time to prepare for a particular piece...but over all I can't complain.

I'll post what we're doing as soon as I know! :D

Joe
 
#4
NickyBass said:
I am excited to get back to playing with them. It's nice that there are 80 musicians who all just want to play. I was having a tough time keeping a 12 piece salsa group together. It is refreshing to be part of something that is so smooth. ;)
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Isn't it funny? I've played with some...uh..."groups" that would "rehearse" regularly for months and months on end, and some members wouldn't or couldn't be bothered to learn a simple arrangement...I'm not even talking about composed parts- but chord charts!!! Simple chord charts!!! "Please, kinda play something like this..." :rollno:

Then I play with the Ballet orchestra and we nail Tchiakovsky, or Prokofiev and Berlioz after four rehearsals...:hyper:

And those other guys wonder why I'm always "busy" when they want to get together... :D

Joe

Joe
 
#5
Boston Civic Symphony (Invalid Link Removed) is doing Tschaikovsky Symphony #1, a world premiere of a cello concerto by Larry Bell, Lt. Kije, Hary Janos Suite, Brahms piano concerto #1, the Franck D minor symphony, plus a Christmas concert. I suppose I'll get to play the Kije solo :) which I've never played in a concert.
 
#7
DC Bass said:
Isn't it funny? I've played with some...uh..."groups" that would "rehearse" regularly for months and months on end, and some members wouldn't or couldn't be bothered to learn a simple arrangement...I'm not even talking about composed parts- but chord charts!!! Simple chord charts!!! "Please, kinda play something like this..." :rollno:

Then I play with the Ballet orchestra and we nail Tchiakovsky, or Prokofiev and Berlioz after four rehearsals...:hyper:

And those other guys wonder why I'm always "busy" when they want to get together... :D

Joe
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This is so true and I am excited to be joining a community orchestra for this upcoming season. :D
 
#10
You know, it's funny, some of the hardest parts look so simple. There is a 50 bar 5 octave ppp 'A' at the begining of Mahler 1. I always skipped over that part when practising, but, man, it is so hard to keep the tone even and the dynamic consistant. I think that that is the hardest part in the peice. :)
 
#12
I play with a couple of different orchestras. In fact, I have two concerts coming up within the next week:

Festival City Symphony (Milwaukee):
DVORAK:
Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
GOTTSCHALK/KAY
Cakewalk

Wisconsin Philharmonic (Waukesha)
VERDI
Sicilian Vespers
ELGAR
Enigma Variations
CORIGLIANO
Sonata for Violin and Orchestra, orchestrated from his Sonata for Violin and Piano (1963) by Martin Kennedy
 

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