Doublereed Archive - Posting 000032.txt from 2003/03

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Playing contrabassoon
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:14:26 -0500

So maybe Gorecki's daughter and son inlaw were contra players needing
work.

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 04:38 AM, gbur wrote:

> Guy,
>
> Almost as absurd is the Gorecki Symphony No. 3
> (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), which calls for two
> contras . . . which only play in one movement, double
> each other on parts marked piano & pianissimo, and
> each play a total of 12 notes!
>
> Bruce Gbur

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