Prelude du Fornication

[RunningJib]

First chair

I can transpose anything by sight.

Tell me more about your big bass.

Bass double trigger trombone. (Why do you think we're always in the back)

 

[Guest]

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[RunningJib]

Exactly

Dated someone in high school who played bass trombone.

Low Brass Kicks Ass.

That low mellow vibration.

Did you high school man ever play "Music Man?" The title piece is okay, but do you recall "Miaram the Librarian?" Do you remeber that dark low chorus . . . it still makes the hair raise on my neck...of course, we kicked ass w/ "THe Great Gates of Kiev"

Here's something to remind you: http://www.bandsman.co.uk/sounds/kiev.mp3

 

[voluptuary_manque]

And for those with a Baroque turn of taste, might I recommend a sackbut quartet. It included a bass sackbut, something rarely seen even in the Olde Tymes but when the boys finished a concert and then cranked up "Down by the Riverside" the quad rawked!

 

[Guest]

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[voluptuary_manque]

His license plate was SACBUT.

You knew him, too? What were you doing around UCR? BTW, that was before you were born!

 

[Guest]

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[voluptuary_manque]

Those trombone players, they sure get around.

Y'know, I played the flute for years but only played the trombone for about 6 months. Given a choice, I'd have opted for the sliphorn. Y'gotta love 'em.

 

[Guest]

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[voluptuary_manque]

Daughter plays flute - and quite well.

Not me! I hated to practice until I finagled my way in to chamber vocal music. Then I was happy to spend an hour or more practicing. We got pretty good, too. But music is too much fun to make work. Like cooking and that's my third favorite indoor sport. Eating is second . . .

 

[Guest]

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[voluptuary_manque]

Music as an overall, no. But all we need is something to eat and "Be present at our table, Lord" rolls out in four part harmony (whenever we can get a tenor. Damned hard to find, tenors, even though my dad was a tenore rebusto in the Italian manner) and generally impresses anyone within hearing. We sing, we do.

 

[Gizzmotick]

Music as an overall, no. But all we need is something to eat and "Be present at our table, Lord" rolls out in four part harmony (whenever we can get a tenor. Damned hard to find, tenors, even though my dad was a tenore rebusto in the Italian manner) and generally impresses anyone within hearing. We sing, we do.

When I was in high school, my friends and I would get together at who ever's house had a piano (and a tolerant parent)... My friends would play various instruments (piano, violin, & clarinet) - and a couple of us would sing. We did show tunes like Phanotom, JC Superstar, some pop type music... and just jam like that for hours. It was always so much fun.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

When I was in high school, my friends and I would get together at who ever's house had a piano (and a tolerant parent)... My friends would play various instruments (piano, violin, & clarinet) - and a couple of us would sing. We did show tunes like Phanotom, JC Superstar, some pop type music... and just jam like that for hours. It was always so much fun.

In college, whenever the chamber singers were on the road (which was fairly often) we'd end up at some coffee shop for dinner after the concert then after we were done eating, we'd recap the concert in the restaurant. The other diners always appreciated it.

 

[Gizzmotick]

In college, whenever the chamber singers were on the road (which was fairly often) we'd end up at some coffee shop for dinner after the concert then after we were done eating, we'd recap the concert in the restaurant. The other diners always appreciated it.

That also happened a couple of times with my high school choir.... I very much enjoyed being involved in music.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I miss it most before Christmas. When you're at work, Christmas is suddenly here and then it's gone. That reeks. When you're in music, Christmas has to be planned, rehearsed for, performed (several times and in several places), then finally arrives and you get an afterglow from all the music you did. I've never has an ecstatic experience from sex. Lots of fun? Oh Yeeeeaaaaaaahhhh! Ecstasy, though, has only come through music.

 

[Gizzmotick]

I miss it most before Christmas. When you're at work, Christmas is suddenly here and then it's gone. That reeks. When you're in music, Christmas has to be planned, rehearsed for, performed (several times and in several places), then finally arrives and you get an afterglow from all the music you did. I've never has an ecstatic experience from sex. Lots of fun? Oh Yeeeeaaaaaaahhhh! Ecstasy, though, has only come through music.

The pinnacle for me came my Senior year of high school... We went to the ACDA Choir invitational in Pasadena, CA... sang at this huge church (Methodist - I think). We did seven songs, all acapella, with only a pitch-pipe at the begining of each song. As we were filing off the stage, people were asking us what COLLEGE we were from. It blew their minds to think that they had just seen/heard/expereinced a High School Choir.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Uh-uh. It's Presbyterian. I know that one because Chanticleer sings there on occasion. We did something similar when our director had to go back to Kansas for his father's funeral. We were even luckier. One of our tenors had perfect pitch so we were picking up the beginning of the next number while the audience was still applauding. Then we'd launch. No pitch pipe, no director. Just 16 high school kids on an adrenaline high like you wouldn't believe. Then there was the time in Mission Santa Barbara . . . Ever seen an entire madrigal group cry from the sheer emotion of the event? It was a high point in my life.

 

[Gizzmotick]

Uh-uh. It's Presbyterian.......

Ever seen an entire madrigal group cry from the sheer emotion of the event? It was a high point in my life.

Okay Presbyterian... that sounds right too. I've got it on a video tape somewhere.... Oh... and CD too.

And yes... I have seen/experienced that. Apparently we did such a damned fine job with the singing that our director forgot to tell us to take a bow before exiting the stage. We blew HIS socks off.

We were all on cloud 9 for a month.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Okay Presbyterian... that sounds right too. I've got it on a video tape somewhere.... Oh... and CD too.

And yes... I have seen/experienced that. Apparently we did such a damned fine job with the singing that our director forgot to tell us to take a bow before exiting the stage. We blew HIS socks off.

We were all on cloud 9 for a month.

People who don't sing will never understand, Gizz. They just think its music. Pity . . .

 

[Gizzmotick]

People who don't sing will never understand, Gizz. They just think its music. Pity . . .

Touche'.

 

[freshface]

I was in a three hundred year old German church this weekend. A group of American high school students in jeans and T-shirts came in loudly and started wandering around. The next thing I knew, they were lined up in the side aisles, with their director in the center. This boy's choir sang an amazing acapella Amen chorus and then wandered out of the church again.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I was in a three hundred year old German church this weekend. A group of American high school students in jeans and T-shirts came in loudly and started wandering around. The next thing I knew, they were lined up in the side aisles, with their director in the center. This boy's choir sang an amazing acapella Amen chorus and then wandered out of the church again.

Not only musical but well staged, too. Good on that director!