[Trombone-l] Bach cello suites

Tue May 26 09:18:32 CDT 2009

Forgot to respond to this...

I.  Cellists need to breathe too.  If their music doesn't breath, it's not music... A computer can play these without breathing.  It's the humanity, the "alive-ness" that makes the music.

II. A tubist who shall remain nameless performed a suite using circular breathing.  It was terrible.  Great playing, nice idea in theory, but the music didn't breathe either.  Yuck!

III.  They are not just studies, though they are fascinating from a theory respect as both harmonic and polyphonic works.  However, I think that these can be performed with the same aplomb as the flute works.  You must find the line, and realize that most of the double stops are more ornament than harmonic necessity.  And we can improvise new ornaments.

My humble opinion :-)  No love lost, I hope (Scott et al.) ;-)

J.c.

---- Scott Garlock <sgarlock at ashland.edu> wrote: 
> Couldn't agree more..Very worthy of study and life long attempts w/  
> students and self, but man, we just have to breathe!
> great music...
> Scott
> On May 12, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Tom Gibson wrote:
> 
> > A well-known bone-playing friend of mine once made this observation:
> >
> > While the cello suites make for excellent pedagogy and terrific
> > technical challenges, they really fall flat when performed on  
> > trombone.
> >
> > The more I hear them done, even by marvelous players, the more I find
> > myself in agreement. The trombone can't do them justice, I'm afraid.
> > Just listen to Casals.
> >
> > However, I still love playing them 'round the house:-)
> >
> > Anybody else feel that way?
> >
> > Dr. Tom Gibson
> > Trombonelessons.com
> >
> > On May 12, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Howard Spindel <howard at sci1.com> wrote:
> >
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