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2002-02-12

 
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:17:43 -0500
From: farfl
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
 
 

List Server wrote:
>My email found the following classified ad:
>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
>Location: Milwaukee WI   Area Code: 414  Date Posted: 02/10/2002
>BASS Saxophone $1200, Eb Tuba $500, F Key Trombone $750, Mellophone $150.
> Jim (414)481-8863
>
>Don't know a thing about the sax, but if you run it down, let me and the
> list know what you discovered!
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
 

I phoned Jim, and apparently the bass sax was made by "Walker".......and
was already sold.  Did someone on the list get it?
Best Regards,
Steven

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:25:18 -0800
Subject: [CB] Classical MP3?
From: Jim Katz

Does anyone know if classical music can be found on the net somewhere for
downloading?

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From: "Patrick.Scully"
Subject: Re: [CB] Classical MP3?  How about Classical MIDI

Jim,

I like MIDI files of classical music.  They can sound great on standard
computer sound cards, require only a fraction of the disk space of MP3s, and
can be read by music notation software (such as Sibelius) so that you can
read the score as the music is playing (not to mention edit and rearrange
for your favorite low instruments!).  Finally, you can download and play
classical midis this very night -- all night if you like -- at no cost.

Alas, MIDIs are not "recordings" in the sense that MP3s are; rather, they
are electronic scores that that instruct your MIDI-capable sound card to
play standardized instrument sounds.  It's up to your sound card to
implement the MIDI rendering.  Think of a MIDI file as a score, and of your
computer as the conductor/instrument/player combination.   Don't worry, your
computer should be fully capable of playing MIDIs right now.  You can
download Winamp for enhanced listening and file management capability.
Winamp is also free, by the way.

I'm including a link to Classical Archives here -- a site whose depths I've
plumbed for material that lends itself to arrangements featuring low wind
instruments like the bass saxophone, tuba, and the contra clarinets.  The
site is self explanatory, and vast.  Bon voyage!

http://at.classicalarchives.com/debussy.html

Patrick
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:43:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Andrew Phillips
Subject: Re: [CB] Classical MP3?

> Does anyone know if classical music can be found on
> the net somewhere for
> downloading?

   I still do a good deal of downloading since Napster
(may it rest in peace) went to requiring fees.  Go to
www.kazaa.com and download their software.  The rest
is rather easy to figure out.  It's a bit limited, but
some more popular pieces can be found easily.  Also,
if you have a good connection (bless you,
buckeye-cablesystem) you can even get movies, with a
little patience and 3/4 GB free.

                         --Andrew Phillips

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:45:05 -0800
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Want ad

Steve asked me to forward this to the list:

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>Location: Milwaukee WI   Area Code: 414  Date Posted: 02/10/2002
>BASS Saxophone $1200, Eb Tuba $500, F Key Trombone $750, Mellophone $150.
> Jim (414)481-8863

  It is a Walker bass Sax in need a major restoration and had been sold by the
  time I called on the morning of the 12th to a friend of the seller for the
  new owner's son as a graduation present!

  The brass instruments were still available though.

  regards,

  Steve Weinert

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From: "Karen James"
Subject: [CB] San Jose Wind Symphony Performance?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:42:21 -0800

Hey, Grant!

Will you be performing with the San Jose Wind Symphony this Saturday night
(Feb 16)?

Can you give us any details?

Karen J.
San Jose, CA

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:28:55 -0800
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] San Jose Wind Symphony Performance?
 

>Hey, Grant!
>
>Will you be performing with the San Jose Wind Symphony this Saturday=20
>night (Feb 16)?
>
>Can you give us any details?
>
>Karen J.
>San Jose, CA

Yes to both questions ;-)

The concert is Saturday, 2/16 at 7:30 PM at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts (downtown Mountain View, CA).  We will have guest conductor Dr. Robert M. Gifford conducting: he is the third of three candidates to become our permanent conductor, as our founding conductor Darrell Johnston is stepping down after only 41 years at the baton.

The program ("A Musical World Tour") is:

   INTERMISSION


I'm playing Bb contra on several pieces (e.g., Festive Overture, Paris Sketches), sarrusophone on Yiddish Dances (calls for contrabassoon, but the sarrusophone fits right in), and bass clarinet on the rest.  Unless Dance of the Jesters (which I haven't seen yet) calls for Eb contra...  "Paris Sketches" doesn't call for contra at all, but the bass clarinet part has quite a few low C's and D's, so I'm treating the contra as "bass clarinet with extension to (2) low Cs" (i.e., playing the part unison with the other basses).

Should be a good concert: come and enjoy!

Grant

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Grant Green
Sarrusophones, contrabass reeds, &
other brobdignagian acoustic exotica             http://www.contrabass.com
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