Atlanta Symphony Low Brass Excerpts from The Planets at Columbus State University

Atlanta Symphony trombonists Colin Williams, Bill Thomas, George Curran and guest tubist Eric Bubacz perform low brass excerpts from Holst's The Planets. The video was recorded during their September 25th, 2009 masterclass at Columbus State University. Williams, Thomas and Curran are 2009-2010 Artists in Residence at Columbus State University, and along with Dr. Bradley Palmer, make up the faculty for the Southeast Trombone Symposium. More information about these CSU Artists in Residence, the Southeast Trombone Symposium and the Atlanta Trombone Projects CD can be found at http://music.colstate.edu/trombone

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[zachthetubaattack]

beautiful



[Thehontry1rocks1]

nom nom Trombones <3

[euphfellowship]

@ahsdm07

Don't forget Strauss wrote some stuff with euphonium, too!!

[Hettbone1]

@spoondawg27 My guess is someone just rushed or dragged just out of carelessness, not from minimal rehearsal time. They were trained to play with close to no rehearsals.

[ahsdm07]

@babtrombone

Oh I know... I'm a euphonium player, and an orchestral conductor... But Planets has a "Tenor Tuba" part, which is played on the euphonium. This is a big euphonium excerpt.

[spoondawg27]

@Hettbone1

Probably minimal rehearsal. It's a fact of life at this extreme level of musicianship. You don't have time to cover everything. I wonder how much music this same section was working on around the same time. Sometimes things end up neglected.

[LRFLight7vg73olt]

@Hettbone1 Yeah, they are a bit off at times on this video.

[eviloverlord88]

@babtrombone This piece is one of the few exceptions - it won't let me link, but search for "HOLST PLANETS ; Mars ~ War '09 (1/7)" to see and hear the "tenor tuba in Bb" (read: euphonium), with its most prominent solo starting at 2:10.

And really, bass trumpets are just as rare... maybe even more so, unless you're an opera orchestra that does a lot of Wagner.

[Hettbone1]

Don't get me wrong, they are fantastic but in this excerpt they are not together at times. In the other videos they were perfect so I'm just wondering why. It's almost like they are another group. Must be a fluke.

[babtrombone]

@ahsdm07

An Orchestra symphoney never has a euphonium in orchestral parts, rarely it does.

Thats what bass trumpets for =)