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Artifacts inside the bandies layer include the biggest tuba in the world, a bass drum named Bertha, as well as pictures of past bands and a number of "borrowed" sings...
...melodious instrument is no trombone; nay, it is the most noble, most formidable of the brasses, the B-Flat Sousaphone, named after the distinguished composer and band master, John Philip Sousa. Had you termed the instrument a tuba, I would have been satisfied, as the distinction is not one that the uninitiated often grasp; but classification as a trombonist is more than I can reasonably stomach...
Mingus specified most of the musicians he wanted to play Epitaph. Two were at Lincoln Center last week: Eddie Bert on trombone and Don Butterfield on tuba. For the performers, keeping Epitaph alive has been a labor of love, although not without its complications. Five or six sections of the work, Schuller contends, are as difficult as anything in the classical repertory, comparable in density to Charles Ives' Fourth Symphony or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. "These parts are so complex contrapuntally," says Schuller, "that musicians used to conventional jazz expression are just overwhelmed. It leaves them huffing and puffing...
...than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music stand so he could watch the game while he played. Trombonist Dick Dreiwitz and his wife Barbara, the tuba player, tell of a surprise visit by Groucho Marx. "After one of Woody's solos," says Barbara, "Groucho reached up and handed him a few pennies as a tip." Psychiatrist Ron Brady, a friend of Woody's, recalls the time a man claiming to be a biologist walked into Michael...
...women's basketball team wraps up a share of the Ivy title with a 71-60 scorching of Brown. Sarah Duncan throws in 17 points, grabs 13 rebounds, dishes out five assists, blocks three shots and makes two steals. She also plays tuba in the band at halftime...