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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2007-08-22 15:25
play the Bartered (Battered?) Bride Overture?
I'm currently working on it, on my new Forte' C (but that's for a separate post entirely once I've got to know it) and am building up tonguing speed (alas, something that has always been a weakness), but having heard some truly speedy performances in recent times, I'm wondering how most people cope with it.
So...a poll...
1) Tongue every note of course.
2) Work to a predetermined pattern (slur 2, tongue 2 perhaps).
3) Slur it and let other instruments worry about doing the articulation for you.
4) Something else.
I'm trying to tongue every note...but it seems to lose the lightness of feel. <sigh> back to the practise room I go.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2007-08-22 20:46
Tongue every note.
I had a single concert (I'd call it the concert from hell) that I had to play Principal in at the FAME Festival in the Faculty Orchestra:
Bartered Bride
Fetes from Nocturnes Debussy
Mendelssohn Scherzo from MidSummers Night Dream
Capriccio Espagnol
and last and pretty much least the Brahms Academic Festival Overture. (there also was a symphony by Juilliard Faculty Ken Lampl, but the warhorses were the ones listed).
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Author: DAVE
Date: 2007-08-24 07:46
IMO, the Bartered Bride is in it's own category. The other pieces on David's list are quite easy and come nowhere near the 152 or higher mark needed for the Bartered Bride. I have never heard anybody tongue that fast for that long. Sure I can do about 2 beats, but the whole thing? Not saying it can't be done, just never heard it. In the piece itself it is feasable to add slurs and I am sure most people do. I heard Drucker do it; HE added slurs. I have heard great stories of David Blumberg's fast tongue here on the BB, but never actually heard it. I would love to hear him or anybody really tongue it as written, single tongued, and sound good or at least decent doing it. Just sayin...
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2007-08-24 11:27
I'll tell you this:
Ricardo can single tongue it all without breaking a sweat. When I play bride I do single tongue it, but do sweat. My single tonguing is fast enough, but nothing spectacular - that's when the multiple tonguing comes in and that is "quick".
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2007-09-03 16:03
" I have heard great stories of David Blumberg's fast tongue here on the BB, but never actually heard it. I would love to hear him or anybody really tongue it as written, single tongued, and sound good or at least decent doing it. Just sayin..."
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You asked to hear it so here it is 
This was me in Orchestra playing Principal in Bride - single tongued
http://www.mytempo.com/bride.mp3
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Author: William
Date: 2007-09-03 19:39
Great job, David, but when I play the BB, I have to double tongue. My single tongue just isn't quick enough. I also agree, all the notes have to be tongued. How?? like the cable guy says, "getter dun" (no matter how).
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2007-09-04 02:27
The BB was 1st in the 2nd half of the program. I was so sick during the 1st half of the program that there's no way in he*l that I could have played it well. I was white as a ghost during the 1st half and after barely making it to the mens room felt better but not by much. May as well had been on a Mexican Vacation drinking the water I felt so bad.
What I learned the hard way in the 1st half of the program was that it IS possible to play with almost no breath support and minimal concentration (took all I had just not to be sick on stage). It was an Opera Program so wasn't in the "hot seat" fortunately except for BB.
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