Our band director has put a familiar piece in our folders for next concert. It's "A Portrait of Charlie Chaplin", Charles Chaplin, S.J. Padilla, arr. by Takashi Hoshide. Our MD is director of Bravo Music so we get to play a lot of arrangements by Japanese composers / arrangers. This one is a very nice arrangement I think with a good euphonium part.
The example of a recording coming out of Japan is great! What I noticed is the euph soloist never breathes during the 9 measure solo or he/she is circular breathing. Our dir. is always harping on us not to breathe so often... especially on a bar line. When I need to breathe, I look for an end of a natural phrase - or just after a dotted quarter note, before an eighth note. It would be great if I could play this in one breath, but at age 70, it ain't gonna happen. My M5050 has a bore of .610 so it takes more air to begin with. Any suggestions?
Below is an image of the solo portion (starting just after letter 'C' and up to 'D'). It's marked Solo or Soli, but I don't think I'm hearing more than one voice... especially with a few 6th partials involved.
Below is a link to listen to an excerpt of this piece. Solo starts around 15 secs:
Excerpt - "A Portrait of Charlie Chaplin"
See attached solo image: