Joy to the World!

That way it should be:  Tuba Christmas!

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Euphonium!

In the musical prelude at the inauguration, musicians would recognise the strains of Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite.

Seems a bit of an odd choice for an American ceremony until you realise the thing is full of beautiful euphonium lines.

WTF  you are undoubtedly thinking.  Who cares about that?

That starts to make more sense when you realise that the director of the United States Marine Band, “The President’s Own”, is the former principal euphonium player with the band.

We.

Are.

Everywhere.

-srbp-

Euphonium Saturday!

Some youtube.com offerings of the glorious euphonium.

First is a tube/euphonium quartet from the American Second Infantry Division band playing an arrangement of Birdland. It cuts out aftef 2:44 but there's enough here to show what you can do.

Can ya dig it? I knew ya could.



On the other end of the spectrum in more ways than one, is a song by The Born Again Floozies: "I used to play euphonium".

Dig it, too or just dig the cymbal-playing tap dancer.

Then, from somewhere else entirely in the vast expanse of the twisted human psyche comes this piece:



To finish, there is this short clip of two guys playing the Mario Brothers theme, flowed another similar duet.

There's some kind of international thing going on with this.