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Re: Re: Robert Eaves

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Subject: Re: Re: Robert Eaves
From: ericdecloe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:43:24 GMT
Priority: low
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At 23:21 28-09-96 GMT, you wrote:
>> Maybe because he didn't want to put his name on a basstrombone solo.......
>> (Might make people not taking him serious........)   ;)
>> 
>
>Ooooh!!!  Steady on, Ineke!!  No, seriously, I know what you mean.  You can't 
>escape the fact that in the lower register, the bass trombone does sound 
>'amusing'.  I was playing Prelude and Allegro by Eugene Bozza at a recital
a few 
>months ago.  This piece was written for the Paris Conservatoire, so it's
hardly 
>'throwaway' stuff.  However, as soon as I hit the pedal notes in the
cadenza, I 
>saw one lady on the front row start shaking with mirth (well, either that or I 
>was making her chair vibrate!).  Either way, it was quite off putting!

I was just kidding (notice the 'wink' on the end), I do like basstrombone as
a solo-instrument, don't think they're particularly funny (not more than the
composer means to be, anyway). 

Anyway, I'd vote for the last option (vibrating chair......)

Best wishes,

Ineke


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