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[Solstice/Equinox Commissioning Consortium]

Stuff
Theme with Seven Variations for Solo Tuba

(2001)

Commissioned by:
78 Adventure-Seeking, Fearless Tubists

Instrumentation:
    solo tuba

Duration:
    ca. 5:45

Comments from the Co-Commissioners

What a GREAT piece.  I ran through it this evening and I LOVE IT....  Thanks for giving us this neat, quixotic, rambunctious fun-fest!

Chuck Jackson
freelance, Las Vegas, NV

I give it an unqualified rave.  Each time I play it I hear something new, so playing it will probably be a lasting discovery process....  Congratulations on a piece that I think tuba players will enjoy and include in repertoires for years to come.  I'm looking forward to the sequelae. What a great investment we have made!

David Newbern
Principal Tuba, Little Rock Wind Symphony
Tubist, Ozark Point Brass
Little Rock, AR

Program Notes

    Stuff - Theme with Seven Variations for Solo Tuba is the first of four intermediate-level pieces composed as part of the 2001 Solstice/Equinox Commissioning Consortium for Tubists. Seventy-eight tubists from 30 states and three countries co-commissioned the music.

    A simple Theme, marked freely, opens and concludes the music, framing seven variations: Lullaby, Insistent, Cartoon Music, Gregarious, Urgent, More Urgent, and Swing It.

To order a copy of Stuff, go to Tuba-Euphonium Press.

More music for tuba:

To read about and order piece no. 2 commissioned by the 2001 Solstice Equinox Commissioning Consortium for Tubists, Just a Thought, click here.

To read about and order piece no. 3 commissioned by the 2001 Solstice Equinox Commissioning Consortium for Tubists, High Autumn, click here.

To read about and order piece no. 4 commissioned by the 2001 Solstice Equinox Commissioning Consortium for Tubists, Endorphins, click here.

To place an order to buy the Three Furies for Solo Tuba, contact David Miles at Tuba- Euphonium Press.

To read about Sultry and Eccentric for tuba and piano, click here.

To read about Waltz for Betz in an arrangement for tuba and piano, click here.

To read about Quintet for Brass, click here.

To read about the 2001 Solstice/Equinox Commissioning Consortium -- four intermediate-level pieces for tuba -- click here.

 
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