[Trombone-l] Update: Mascogni Tuba Part

[Ann E. Argodale]

This should be an artistic decision, not an administrative one!!!



Ann E. Argodale
Musician
aargodale at comcast.net



----- Original Message -----

From: Roger Hecht 

To: Ray Horton 

Cc: Trombone List 

Sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:47:48 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Update: Mascogni Tuba Part



At 04:12 PM 3/10/2009, Ray Horton wrote:

>Roger Hecht? wrote:

>>-I'm in that boat right now.  Our personnel manager hadn't the 

>>first clue about this issue, saw "trombono basso" and told me 

>>(principal tuba) that I wouldn't be working (and thus not paid), 

>>and hired a trombonist.  She told me this in front of the music 

>>director, and we both knew this to be absurd (the work in question 

>>is "Falstaff", buy the way).  Having done the cimbasso work with 

>>the orchestra for years, as well as playing tenor and bass trombone 

>>with them for over a decade, I was - and am - seriously upset.  But 

>>there's nothing I can do, and there'll be a $%#@ing bass trombone 

>>and three tenors in the pit.  Absurd indeed!

>>



Wasn't me (Roger), but I'm afraid I was sloppy. Not sure who wrote it.



>It looks like I missed a message, so I don;t know who wrote this, 

>but that is really sad.  In my situation in Louisville, the problem 

>is that the opera is always a guest conductor and we don't see him 

>until the first rehearsal, so underlings in the orchestra and/or 

>opera office make the decision.  In your case, with the MD present 

>and informed, and you prepared to play whatever is needed, that is 

>really a mess.

>

>

>RBH



Roger Hecht 



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