Firstly - thanks for the thoughts about this piece - I was a little more prepared than I might have been.
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Originally Posted by robertwhite Does this guy not already have the part? He should find a way to get it to you in advance, injured or not. |
He got it to me 24 hours before the rehearsal (at a time when I was teaching at all sensible hours of the day, so no real time to get to know it - not a major problem, just helped me decide what to play it on).
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Originally Posted by Manny Laureano You are very fortunate to get to play this thing! |
Can I get back to you on that
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Suffice it to say, you'll love the piece, Tmike.
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Hmm - I don't think it has made my Top Ten. One of the other trumpeters described it as "
Rite of Spring, but without the tune - oh, and you have to
really count in this one."
It was certainly interesting, but I will be quite happy not to see that again for a few years.
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Originally Posted by dedalus78 It uses an Ondes Martenot, which is similar to a theremin, except pitch can be much more carefully controlled as it has a keyboard, and a sliding 'ribbon' for all those seven octave glisses- as opposed to the theremin with just several antennae you move your hand around. |
Funny story about that.
We were rehearsing the piece and the Ondes player turned up slightly late, so had to set up whilst we were rehearsing other parts of the piece. After about an hour (!) we get to his "big moment" and he looks at the conductor and says "it doesn't work."
The orchestra split in two - half fell about laughing, having spent the past hour watching him set it all up only to find that it didn't work, whilst the others started offering electrical help or phoning round to try and find another one (after all - Ondes Martenots are so common
). By the time the performance came, they had given up on the Ondes and he had to play the part of a synth, which sounded truly awful.
I felt very sorry for him (it wasn't his fault, the electrics had gone wrong) but it was very funny - the only piece that needs one and we had one, but it didn't work - possibly the only reason we were playing the piece and we had to use a synth.
Oh well - time to wait another 20/30 years before I get the chance again (wouldn't actually mind if it was a longer time period).