Posted by Leland Jordon on January 12, 1999 at 10:34:05:
Maybe it's just me, but...
Whenever I hear someone else talking about marches, or polkas, or anything else where the tuba mainly plays on 1 and 3, they don't seem to like playing those kinds of parts.
Perhaps I'm getting too old too early -- I genuinely dig "oom-pah" stuff. There's something about a good march (or even a halfway decent one) that's just so cool, and I'm not enough of a poet to describe it.
Is the negative/highbrow perception something along the lines of, "If it doesn't do musical gymnastics, it's not musically viable"?
Just a mild beef right now...
Leland