Members Lambros Posted November 8, 2006 Members Share Posted November 8, 2006 I don't like bringing this up but enough already...guys we're gonna have to do a better job contributing to this forum. It's a minor milestone and you would have thought the mil mark would have been realized months ago...please people...let's get this thing moving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted November 8, 2006 Members Share Posted November 8, 2006 I'll start some threads later today that might help get the ball rolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted November 11, 2006 Author Members Share Posted November 11, 2006 Sorry, it's been a few days... Look, we can ALL start some good threads but what good are they if no one answers back in acknowledgement to good posts? For example, I felt that I had some good info to add to the Selmer Super Action 80 thread...I'm a sax player...I know these things...I want to share what I know but, if it falls on the figurative 'deaf ears', what's the point of contributing? Originally posted by sunburstbasser I'll start some threads later today that might help get the ball rolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted November 11, 2006 Members Share Posted November 11, 2006 Eh, gotta keep posting. Though posts might fall on deaf ears (or blind eyes?) they may also get someone to say "But I thought..." or "Hey, what do you think of..." or the like. And IIRC, I think we've actually got more posts here than some of the other new forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted November 12, 2006 Author Members Share Posted November 12, 2006 Why haven't you acknowledged my post on the Super Action 80 thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted November 13, 2006 Members Share Posted November 13, 2006 Originally posted by Lambros Why haven't you acknowledged my post on the Super Action 80 thread? Because you know what you're talking about. I'm a trumpet guy, a little other brass, but I'm not much help on woodwinds. So I figured if the original poster responded with more questions, you'd be better qualified to answer them. No offense meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted November 14, 2006 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2006 thanks man, no offense taken, just wanted to keep the thread alive and well...take care... Originally posted by sunburstbasser Because you know what you're talking about. I'm a trumpet guy, a little other brass, but I'm not much help on woodwinds. So I figured if the original poster responded with more questions, you'd be better qualified to answer them. No offense meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hottness Posted November 14, 2006 Members Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dadgad7 Posted November 14, 2006 Members Share Posted November 14, 2006 Originally posted by hottness Hi. hey - what are you doing over here..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 12, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 almost there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Woot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 12, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 post 1001...it's now official... modest as it, play a fanfare to celebrate!! I've been busy with my saxes lately and got a like-new sugal Super Lieb I (this time gold plated brass) for the new soprano. Sections off my old Sugal Lieb wood mouthpiece came apart and it couldn't be saved... The Selmer C* is actually quite a nice mouthpiece albiet a bit too closed for me. Couldn't resist this great deal on ebay for a Sugal that goes for $399 new... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200055327866 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Yesterday I had my sophomore qualifier for trumpet. Went pretty well. I may have to record one of those pieces sometime for posting online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 13, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 cool, what type of music did they want you to play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 I played four pieces. Three of them were late 19th/early 20th century music. The really cool one was Erik Ewazen's Trumpet Sonata, which is only about 10 years old. Beautiful piece though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 14, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 that sounds like interesting music. I like 19th>20th century stuff, Debussy, Ravel, the late Romantic composers merging into the modern school (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Gershwin, Hindenmith, etc) I'll look into Ewazen one of these days. As far as modern composition for sax and othe woodwinds, I need to get more into that myself. I like Anthony Braxton a lot where it concerns jazz.Stravinsky is always chock full of surprises and revelations for me as far as modern woodwind compostion and technique goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted December 14, 2006 Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 Debussy is my favorite classical composer! I really like that stuff thats post-Romantic but still tonal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 14, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 That's a good assessment of Debussy. I consider him to be the fountainhead of modern music as far as stretching the boundaries of tonal and intervalic relationships in composition and playing for that matter. He claimed that the basic inspiration to try different approaches came from Wagner and I can understand that to a degree. I think Berlioz affected him deeply too. The first extensive use of major 7th forms and more obviously the 2 whole tone scales in all of their degrees is entirely Debussy. Originally posted by sunburstbasser Debussy is my favorite classical composer! I really like that stuff thats post-Romantic but still tonal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pilot Posted December 14, 2006 Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 Well, if you're into post romantics and winds, you couldn't do better than Max Reger. He wrote three clarinet sonatas and a clarinet quintet, all sublime. One of my desert island discs is his Orchestral Serenade op. 95. I would also recommend Franz Schmidt, who wrote some lovely chamber music for winds as well as four great symphonies. Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundministries Posted December 14, 2006 Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 Originally posted by sunburstbasser Debussy is my favorite classical composer! I really like that stuff thats post-Romantic but still tonal. As I tell my band students in class. . ."Bach is God!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 14, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 Thanks for the recommendation, I didn't know that Reger wrote sonata pieces for clarinet.I'm familiar with the Hiller Variations, op. 100, and of course his incredible take on the passacaglia form in his Chorale. Schmidt intrigues me; kind of like Richard Strauss with some of Reger's conservative approach. I need to get more into his work... Originally posted by Pilot Well, if you're into post romantics and winds, you couldn't do better than Max Reger. He wrote three clarinet sonatas and a clarinet quintet, all sublime. One of my desert island discs is his Orchestral Serenade op. 95. I would also recommend Franz Schmidt, who wrote some lovely chamber music for winds as well as four great symphonies.Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted December 14, 2006 Members Share Posted December 14, 2006 Bach is another perennial favorite of mine. Of course, as a trumpeter how CAN'T I like Brandenburg 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted December 16, 2006 Members Share Posted December 16, 2006 I trust you guys. This forum will take off one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lambros Posted December 21, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 21, 2006 thanks for your vote of confidence...I guess it remains to be seen whether or not this forum stands a chance if and when more people tune in. As is, there is very little genuine warmth and altruistic spirit here...that's the way I see it. Originally posted by Jazz Ad I trust you guys. This forum will take off one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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