[Trombone-l] CSO performing on original low brass instruments

[Howard Spindel]

Man, I wish I lived near Chicago...

At 02:54 PM 9/26/2008, Alex Iles wrote:

>On Saturday, September 27, and Sunday, September 
>28, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will perform 
>Mussorgsky/Ravel:  “Pictures at an 
>Exhibition.”  Unusual in this performance will 
>be the movement “Bydlo, the Oxcart” 
>performed on an instrument which Ravel 
>originally intended to have play it; a C French 
>tenor tuba with 6 valves.  Usually this movement 
>is played on a bass tuba or a 
>euphonium.  Unusual in these upcoming 
>performances, the instrument being played is the 
>very instrument which played the U. S. premier 
>with Sergei Koussevitzky in 1924.  The 
>instrument is on loan from Principal Tubist of 
>the Utah Symphony, Gary Ofenloch and it is being 
>played/performed by Principal Trombone of the 
>Utah Symphony, Larry Zalkind.  Here are performance details: