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

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hey she makes more money than most OKOM BANDS do :))

But can she march aha probably not, and can she play Tiger Rag, Saints, 
WWW or Struttin with some Bar B Que without a chart and some guy in a 
tuxedo frantically waving around a stick in front of her :))

Naw she copped out and went commercial on us, drat lost another good 
artist who sold out Jazz  to a  pay check.

Well maybe she will come play some OKOM when she retires huh ??

I'll save her a spot with the St. Gabriel's rolling electric wheelchair 
marching band.

Cheers,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:29:14 -0500
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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