[Dixielandjazz] Look out you tubists. This one cuts you all.

[Stephen Heist]

Hey Steve and all,
When I worked with Your Father's Mustache band in Denver I met a WONDERFUL
gal tuba player (also doubled on string bass) named Jeannie (can't remember
her last name) - beautiful too - gave me thoughts of forming a band with
all female side"women" :-) VVBG  If you want her, contact Joe Petrucelli,
leader of YFM, and I'm sure he still has her number...
All the Best,
Steve Heist

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> [Original Message]
> From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
> To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Date: 2/26/2006 1:25:13 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Look out you tubists. This one cuts you all.
>
> Paraphrase from a Philadelphia Inquirer Article:
>
> "When he was here recently leading the Philadelphia Orchestra, Simon
Rattle
> was so smitten with a young substitute musician in the back row that he
> arranged an audition with his Berlin Philharmonic."
>
> Too late because the Philadelphia Orchestra has hired HER for its own
vacant
> Tuba chair. She is the only, and possibly the first female tuba player in
a
> major full time US Orchestra.
>
> But since Carol Jantsch is only 20, she returned to the University of
> Michigan so she can graduate this April. Then she returns to the
Orchestra.
>
> This is her first Orchestral job, as well as her first job. The chair pays
> over $100,000 but the Philadelphia did not disclose her pay.
>
> Because she had no experience, they first refused to audition her. So she
> sent of CD of her playing to Bar Harbor Brass Week, a summer brass
> work-shop. The music director there was Blair Bollinger, bass trombone at
> Philadelphia and chair of the tuba audition committee.
>
> He invited her to audition after being absolutely blown away. What did she
> play? Khachaturian's Violin Concerto. Now if you know the piece, you know
it
> is a plethora of notes for a violinist. On tuba? Probably damn few would
> ever even attempt it.
>
> My oh my, a no experience, 20 year old female lands a tuba gig, only one
> chair in a symphony orchestra, with the Philadelphia. She replaces Paul
> Krzywicki who held the chair from 1972 to present.  Berlin? She did get
the
> invite there, but never considered it because they want a Bb Tuba player
and
> she plays a C tuba.
>
> Other fascinating facts about miss Jantsch. She has a 4.7 liter lung
> capacity, the same as men tuba players and she won a tuba tossing contest
in
> Finland. Farthest throw into the lake. (Women's Division). :-) VBG.
>
> Damn, I wonder if she would like a few jazz gigs. :-) VBG
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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