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I am looking forward to playing Schumann's Rhenish symphony on alto mid February.
This has been sort of a final boss and at the same time bucket list item for me for many years.
As a former professional mostly bass trombonist this has made me sweat just thinking of it in some points of my life
However today I would say it's a challenge but I am sleeping alright thinking of it. I have been preparing well and feel quite comfortable, even if there is of course always some risk involved.

Some open bucket list items for me:
- Playing a recital with just solo works for bass, tenor and alto
- Playing more frequently on lead and/or bass with a good bigband
- Being able to do at least some improvisation in e.g. a bigband setting
- Bolero
- Playing solo with a (amateur) symphony orchestra
- Doing some home recordings that are on a sufficient quality level that I feel happy sharing them publicly

What are your bucket list items? What would you love to play at some point? Is there anything you can do to get there?

I don't know that I have many items, but I do have some of the same ones even if the result would probably not look the same for me since I'm far from professional.

- Being able to improvise solos in the jazz band I play in.
- I'd like to be able to make recordings that I feel comfortable sharing with musicians. I'll record arrangements I made of the birthday song for friends, but I'd like to get to the point where I could work on something and actually feel comfortable posting it here. Even if it wasn't professional quality (it won't be).
- Get a paid gig. This isn't urgent and it isn't really a money thing, but it would just personally mean a lot if I was at a point where someone wanted me to play enough to pay me.
- This one is out there and in a totally different bucket, but I would like to make a part that was good enough that I'd chose to use it. I have several years of professional experience with electroplating, and I've actual made and used some solutions at home (copper and silver plating), so I'm imagining that I would electroform the part(s). I'd probably try a tuning slide or a leadpipe.

Play a ballad that makes someone shed a tear

Nolankberk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:22 pm Play a ballad that makes someone shed a tear

Yes, as long as it isn't the composer of the ballad!

Cheers

Stewbones43

This made me think! (Not an activity I engage in often.) And I came up with nothing. I'm old, and I've been so blessed in my life to have done, many years ago, everything musically that I ever wanted to do. Now I could only hope to do more of it. But I don't hope that. What I hope is to play with the best musicians around and to have a blast doing it. That's it. Spending the rest of my playing life with good music and good people. I can't think of anything better.