Herbert Foster wrote: > For example, while I dislike playing Sousa intensely, I have yet to hear a > symphony orchestra do justice to a Sousa march, which should make your feet > want to march. Only a band gives it the right character. An orchestra I play > in > played the St. Louis Blues. It was awful. Better a rock band should play > Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. Please tell me it hasn't been done. >
Heh ... one of my favorite albums of all times is a CD by the London Symphony, from the mid-'90s, titled "Symphonic Music of the Rolling Stones." _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
