Posted by Rick Denney on February 22, 2001 at 11:12:07:
In Reply to: Absolute First Public Solo posted by Chuck Jackson on February 22, 2001 at 09:43:01:
'pends on what you mean by "public."
My first solo on tuba in front of people I didn't know was "In the Hall of the Mountain King"--the version in the Rubank solo book. It was perhaps 1970. T. H. Rogers JHS, Houston.
My first solo of any sort was an extremely simplified version of Malaguena, on piano, in perhaps the fourth grade. I had to learn that note by note (still can't read on piano worth a darn).
My first solo in front of a real "public" was... The Little Devil Polka, TubaMeisters, Fiesta Texas, 1992. It was no harder technically than the Grieg (I'd done the arrangement myself, heh, heh). Perhaps I played it with a bit more style.
Recital? Solo with a band?
Rick "Um, no." Denney