Posted by Steve Marcus on February 16, 2004 at 00:25:21:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Recordings of Interest to Tuba Players posted by Chuck Jackson on February 15, 2004 at 23:41:00:
“Psalm” is a very attractive, interesting work. The tuba is heard prominently, but it is not a tuba solo work per se. David Diamond himself is quoted in the liner notes:
“Psalm stress[es] diatonic modality, evident from [the] opening tuba solo...Howard Hanson was very impressed with Psalm. He presented Psalm on a concert in December of 1936. A year later it won the Juilliard Publication Award. The audience’s response was very enthusiastic, and Howard programmed it again the very next year. [The orchestra] enjoyed playing it. Hanson didn’t stop once during the first reading, and when it was over, the orchestra was so stunned that they burst into applause, which was very unusual for the Rochester Philharmonic!...It was played by many American orchestras in a short time.”
What are the reactions to Diamond’s Psalm from anyone on the BBS who has performed it?