Posted by tubatheorist on February 22, 2001 at 19:00:09:
In Reply to: Absolute First Public Solo posted by Chuck Jackson on February 22, 2001 at 09:43:01:
I guess this would count... I was in 8th grade band, I played a rather extended clarinet solo and cadenza on the tuba since we didn't really have any clarinet players that could do it. It was of course on b-flat tuba, and man did it seem so high at the time! (Middle C! (: ) I think my band director let me do it in exchange for being the only tuba player in the school. (There were like 20 people in the band.)
But I guess my first real solo was last year, as a sixth-year senior undergrad. It was called "Celestial Morn", and is a solo for e-flat tuba. It is a Salvation Army work by a tuba player, Leslie Condon. He is a high ranking officer in the SA and I believe directs one of the staff bands... I should know better, but I forgot. I played the piece with the Heidelberg College Brass Band, my undergrad school, on a couple of concerts.