OK...another warning...I've found another old hard drive in my basement and put three new tracks on my soundcloud. If you haven't checked it out before, it's at www.soundcloud.com/jweuph
First is a better version of SPINNING WHEEL, in which I play the trumpet solo on euphonium. I take it up to a high A in this live performance. The fake argument between the trumpet players as to who wold play the solo, though, is missing. Maybe it wasn't fake?!?
Next is a cleaner live version of BEALE STREET BLUES, the Canadian Brass version, in which I'm playing the horn part as written on euphonium. It (only) goes up to an F.
Last, and the biggest travesty, is the only extant recording of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUPHONIUM VACATION with the Indianapolis Brass Choir. The explanation in the middle is by Dr. Robert Grechesky, who lays out the musicological roots of the piece.
Feel free to muck around this page if you want to hear things that are totally inappropriate for euphonium. All the quintet charts are mine except Beale Street...the Hidas Concerto is with the Otterbein College wind ensemble, and the Ewazen Concerto is with the Butler University Wind Ensemble under the baton of Dr. Grechesky, with the composer in the audience and the soloist wearing Depends (Under his pants)
A major thank you goes to Brian Kiser, the tubist on the quintet tracks. I wrote some real fly specks for him, and he just laid it down!!
Hope you enjoy the tracks--I sure enjoyed writing and/or playing them.
The Hidas Concerto and the Vacation are with a Sovereign 968, the Ewazen is with a Miraphone 5050, and the quintet stuff is on a Yamaha 321 with a Wick 5 mouthpiece on which I drilled the backbore out severely.