Please specify why if you voted no. Or I will hunt you down. :twisted:

 

I'm sorry, what was the question?

 

I don't know...two hours is a VERY long time for one piece of music...

 

I'm sorry, what was the question?

The question is at the end of the article.

 

2 hours is a heck of a long time.

And it's Marcel Mule, not "Mulle." I guess his name is not important to you, as you are such a grand master of the saxophone. Congratulations!

 

No need really to be a smart ***. Seriously. :x No wonder Rascher did not like "MULE." "MULE," probably had your atitude. I asked for some opinions, not some smart allec remarks. I mispell one "L", and I have commited murder. :shock: Get a life. It shows your insecurity by trying to pick on someone just because you are older, and think that you are superior to me. :x I also never stated that I was the best, just that I am going to be spending a lot of time intead of writing this as a normal piece. For joking around and comparing to help with that joke, please state exactly, and descriptivley exactly what I have done that is innapropriate.

 

Two hours will be fine. There are some operas that take multiple days to perform. How many saxophone parts will there be?

 

7 movements, and each having being based on Life itself. If life cannot be summed up in less than two hours, then I think that those who believe that should start thinking, not to say hat sthose who voted no are wroing, just on the matter, of summing up life.

 

I wasn't being a smart-***, just that it's some pretty strong words to basically say that "hey guys, I am god's gift to composing. Would you listen to my 2 hour piece, since it will be the best thing you have ever heard?"

 

I never said such words. I even had two smiley faces to show where I was joking. I was explaining how people should not be misled by my age that this is going to be something to miss, if you actually paid attenion. I even had two smiley faces to show where I was joking in some parts. Please keep rude comments to yourself, and even if I did say it will be the best piece you have ever heard, that is my goal. If I did say such a thing, I would not have said it for no reason at all, and this is no normal piece of music to me, this is going to be written over a longer period of time than many other pieces..

 

Is this a joke?

 

Yeah, that is what they said about Edison too.

 

I just think you could have said it differently. It just sounds arrogant.

And does it matter if anyone will listen to it if, to you, it is great? What if you write your piece and it is incredible and all-encompassing to you, but everyone hates it? I'm not saying this is what will happen but let's pretend. Will your piece be any worse than it was when it was in your head? If you want to write a 2 hour piece for saxophone choir because that's what's in your head, then do it! Whether people are willing to listen or not shouldn't be what chooses your musical path. As long as you are honest to yourself and you write/play what you truly believe and feel, you can do no wrong.

 

Forget it.

 

There was a tourist in Vienna, who started talking to a local about a concert coming up of one of the Mahler Symphonies.

He asked the local, 'Mahler symphonies are quite long, aren't they.'
To which the local replied, 'True, but in Vienna we LIKE music.'

Mahler 8 is around an hour and three quarters, and is in two movments. I have been involved in two performances, without an intermission.

Das Rheingold is about two and a half hours long, and is written to be performed without an intermission.

They're both REALLY LONG.:shock:

 

Mine will have an intermission. Are they amazing pieces?

 

Go ahead and write the two hours. That gives you a lot of room for editing out things that don't turn out the way you want them.

It should fit on one CD. The Japanese specified the size of the audio CD so that one could listen to Beethoven's 9th Symphony without changing discs. So, 74 minutes tops.

That many saxophones can sound really imposing. After a while you'll have to install speed bumps to keep the audience from running out of the auditorium. I'd mix it up with other instruments. Certainly some percussion. Flutes and clarinets. Maybe a French horn or two. Let the saxes dominate the piece, but give the audience's ears a rest with some variety.

It seems like a good project and a constructive way to spend your time as you recuperate from your accident. Don't get testy when the folks here offer criticism. Even when we get sarcastic. We're musicians. That's what we do.

 

I predict that in 150 to 200 years a descendant of Pete Schickele will discover Chu's manuscripts and make a career out of championing this unsung genius to the masses.

Chu, unless you have a teacher who is somebody, there isn't much chance this work will be performed any time soon.

 

Thanks Al. I have planned to have some percussion. I forgot to mention that, also, I will have some different saxophones involved as well. Including the Conn-O-Sax, if ever there is one to be found, and a Sarrusophone. I definitely will have some flute involved. Thanks for the idea. And you may laugh at the Conn Ideas, but when you here it...

 

I predict that in 150 to 200 years a descendant of Pete Schickele will discover Chu's manuscripts and make a career out of championing this unsung genius to the masses.

Chu, unless you have a teacher who is somebody, there isn't much chance this work will be performed any time soon.

My teacher is somebody, been to over fourty countries playing classical. I will have to ask him what he thinks about it. I have not been able to talk to him lately. And it does not matter to me if it is performed any time soon, just as long as it is heard the way it is meant to be one day.

 

Chu, I don't laugh at any musical idea until I hear it.

 

I don't know how these instrumens will be acquired, but they will. Thanks Al.

 

Chu, I don't laugh at any musical idea until I hear it.

Then he will be in tears.

 

Yes Carl. :laughing: True. This is what I am writing it to sound like. Something so touching that there is no way that you cannot be in tears.

 

Mine will have an intermission. Are they amazing pieces?

Yes. rheingold is the first (and shortest) of four operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Mahler's eighth symphony, the symphony of a thousand. The first Mvt is Veni Creator Spiritus, dedicated to honoring the creative spirit. The second mvt ends up sending the 'eternal feminine' to heaven.

It has a full orchestra with organ, two complete choirs, 4 vocal soloists, and a children's choir.