[Trombone-l] Slide vibrato - Mahler 3

[Tom Gibson]

That's a good choice of words, Dick:

"forbidden"

Nothing is forbidden in music, right... just depends on who/ what  
you're trying to please:-)

A whole lot of folks sadly get hung up on that concept. They never  
make the music they're capable of.... bummer for them AND for the rest  
of us.

Luckily, though, there are a bunch of musicians that do their thing!  
Some of the ones from history that we now worship were scorned by  
their peers.

Their Muse, though, couldn't care less what we think, good or bad.


Dr. Tom Gibson
Tom at trombonelessons.com


On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, "Dick Sleeman" <dick at sleeman.nl> wrote:

> I have always wondered why it is kind of forbidden for some players  
> to use
> vibrato, like French horns, clarinets, trombones (and tuba, but that  
> makes a
> little sense). Some 50-odd years ago I first heard the Czech  
> Philharmonic
> and lo! the horn solo in Tchaikovski's Fifth! The clarinets in  
> Smetana's Ma
> Vlast! The trombone solo in Mahler's Third!
>
> It seems that many orchestras from eastern Europa don't (actually  
> didn't -
> they are 'westernizing' too) care for our ideas about 'to vibe or  
> not to
> vibe'.
>
> My 2 (western) Eurocents,
>
> Dick Sleeman, Holland
>
>> Perhaps a silly aside, but don't string players "tremble" ALL THE  
>> TIME?
>> Regardless if it's classical or jazz, pop or pops...
>>
>> Not that I consider myself a brass cello, but consider that strings  
>> do
>> that all the time, and usually (IMNSHO) excessively.
>>
>> We've beat this horse to death before, but vibrato, especially slide
>> vibrato can be very useful as an expression. Sometimes a slow slide
>> vibrato will bring that *snap* to an expressive piece that nothing  
>> else
>> can.  And who would argue with Tommy Dorsey's fast slide vibrato in  
>> "Song
>> of India"...
>>
>> I'm just saying...
>>
>> (Back to my hidey hole)...
>>
>> ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
>>
>> john burton
>> Bach 50B3 Bass Trombone
>> Kanawha Valley Community Band / Slide-by-Slide
>> South Charleston, West Virginia
>
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