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Fred_Murtz
Aug-12-2007, 5:31pm
Just got the call to play mando for two shows at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center on October 14th. #Its a 300+ member choir, plus a assortment of other instrments. #Will find out more in the days to come, but I'm jazzed to get to play here. #I hear the acoustics in this place are incredible.
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mrmando
Aug-12-2007, 5:36pm
Fantastic. What's on the program that requires mandolin?
Fred_Murtz
Aug-12-2007, 5:42pm
Fantastic. What's on the program that requires mandolin?
What I know so far is that its a big choir (300+), some strings, percussion, etc. #Will get the CD to start practicing this Friday and will know more then.
allenhopkins
Aug-12-2007, 10:37pm
Just got a call to play the schermerhorn
So that's like a flugelhorn, right? Odd topic for a mandolin site...
mythicfish
Aug-12-2007, 10:49pm
"Odd topic for a mandolin site... "
To say nothing of your signature line ...
Stradolin Victoria b-back
Curt
allenhopkins
Aug-12-2007, 10:59pm
To say nothing of your signature line ...
Stradolin Victoria b-back
??
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Fred_Murtz
Aug-13-2007, 12:35am
Just got a call to play the schermerhorn
So that's like a flugelhorn, right? #Odd topic for a mandolin site...
Actaully the schemerhorn is an octave below the flugelhorn - and is best played in the key of Cb. #However, unlike the flugelhorn, the schemerhorn has 4 pairs of unison strings tuned to a Cb major 7th chord that resonate when the instrument is played (thus the posting on a mandolin site).
Actaully the schemerhorn is an octave below the flugelhorn - and is best played in the key of Cb. #However, unlike the flugelhorn, the schemerhorn has 4 pairs of unison strings tuned to a Cb major 7th chord that resonate when the instrument is played (thus the posting on a mandolin site).
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #I am laughing up my coffee on that one.
Wasn't there something called a caliopa-saxavia-trombarimba-bassaclara-sousaphone? It was an I Love Lucy episode if I remember?
Gosh I feel old.
allenhopkins
Aug-13-2007, 8:33am
So Fred, you got my feeble attempt at humor -- very good!
I'm still puzzling over Curt's response, though...
pickinpox
Aug-14-2007, 3:23pm
Wasn't there something called a caliopa-saxavia-trombarimba-bassaclara-sousaphone? It was an I Love Lucy episode if I remember?
As long as we are derailing this thread; does anybody remember the jazz-axe-o-phone in one of the Gene Autry movies?
Jim MacDaniel
Aug-14-2007, 4:29pm
Please keep us posted -- it will be interesting to know in what section they seat you. (Hopefully you don't get stuck between the Schermerhorns and the Fartin9 Bedposts.)
Jim Garber
Aug-14-2007, 9:05pm
Some more details (not much) about the concert here (http://www.nashvillesymphony.org/main.taf?p=1,1,3,1,6,1&EventID=0708-S15). The Schermerhorn is in Nashville BTW.
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Jim
Fred_Murtz
Aug-15-2007, 6:34am
Some more details (not much) about the concert here (http://www.nashvillesymphony.org/main.taf?p=1,1,3,1,6,1&EventID=0708-S15). #The Schermerhorn is in Nashville BTW.
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Jim
Thanks Jim - that's more than I knew about the gig. I'd met John Coats (the choir director) at a party a few months back. And there's another friend of mine (Leo Bela) who used to own a big studio in NYC whose also friends with Coats (although I didn't know this till I got this call). I'd done a few sessions for Leo in Nashville ovef the last year - he's the one who called me to play. Should be a really fun gig.
Steevarino
Aug-15-2007, 7:34am
Lots of funny stuff here. #I have only been to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center one time (to see Rosanne Cash). #I will say this, that one venue has upped the class level of Nashville by one large amount. The place is amazing! #One of those places you walk around with your mouth hanging open the first time you go there. #Well, at least I am hoping my mouth doesn't hang open next time I go there. #If it does, I guess I should look into that. #The picture above is accurate, but it doesn't do the place justice. #The chandeliers alone are like nothing I have ever seen (or sat beneath) before. #
There were several articles and news stories about this structure when it was being built. #Apparently, it is a World Class Symphony hall. #Double-wall construction, intensely accurate acoustic stuff designed into it. #It is also just a cool place to hang out. #You can go there, have a drink, have a snack, sit in nice eating areas, enjoy some artistic water fountains and striking architecture, and that part is all free. #You don't have to show a ticket until you enter the actual music hall, which is really only part of the place.
It is located right near the Country Music Hall of Fame, so you could check it out if you happen to go to an event there.
BTW, while it was being built, it seemed that everyone pronounced the "sch" like the "sh" in shrimp. #Now, most people that even mention it pronounce it like the "sch" in school. #Like "Skirmerhorn", but not spelled that way . . .
My apologies to Mark Knopfler for that last line.
Steve