Cavatine, Op. 144 by Camille Saint-Saëns

As performed by Thomas Paris at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for Seminar on April 17, 2008 for departmental seminar - not a recital.

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• saint-saens
• trombone
• cavatine
• thomas
• paris
• utc

[thomatically]

I appreciate the constructive criticisms some of you have. I'd be much more interested to you hear your interpretations of this piece. I wasn't trying to show perfection by uploading this (clearly) but share a recent, live, performance for analysis. Educated, or otherwise. When is the last time you recorded yourself playing?

[Rockintrombone51]

many errors, your lucky your not in texas

[321SledgeHammer]

Dude! How did you get Vin Diesel to turn pages?!

[TheRodriRic]

@Rockintrombone51

You have a really great point. I'm from Texas

[allnwbone]

very nice, you did a good job on this. I'd like to hear what this sounds like after a year and a half. a few things though, 1: you should listen to the Lindberg recoding of this to better understand what i say next. 2: You've done well with all the notes, now make each note speak, like with the triplets, tu-tu-ku-tu, the notes got a little lost in the middle of those, also blow through and finish the phrases, also in the adantino take the music somewhere, it seemed a little repressed. great job!

[BrianMayniac]

*imagine **makes

oops!

[BrianMayniac]

Just a kind of technique thing: one of the methods my teachers been saying is image theres a slur marking over the primary theme arpeggio, make it smoother and less 'stodgy' was his way of putting it. Nakes it MUCH easier to play too.

Good tone though!

[Trombonerist]

and btw dont listen to any of these people giving you jip ive seen people get into royal academy playin worse than this.

[Trombonerist]

i hate this piece my teacher made me play it over and over again got so dull the minor part is the only part i enjoy. Well played BTW

[jamietrhcp17]

definitely not perfect, but still pretty good nonetheless.

really nice Db at the end.

[mactrombone]

For all the people complaining about the slow tempo...do you know what a Cavatine is? Check into it, I think that you may be surprised!

I really don't like armchair critics that post on you tube. If you don't have something positive to say, or at least constructive, then keep it to yourself.

Thomatically thank you for your performance, and for sharing it with us. Keep on working

[mahlerbone]

I think your interpretation was nice. It should be a little faster (IMO) and more importantly, lighter. Really think of the piece in bouncing 1 instead of 3. Make a point of accent the first note of each measure, which will assist in achieving this light feeling. Really, all the fracks, cracks, and the like, were just distracting. It distracted away from your excellent sound and great range...which is a shame. Clean it up, crank it up a few notches and you will have yourself one hell of a piece.