Item Number: S0.714033

?Meat Salad? is a new piece for solo bass trombone commissioned by Ilan Morgenstern of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Inspired in part by the slap-bass stylings of artists like Bootsy Collins and in part by the inimitable trombone playing of ?Funky Fred? Wesley, this piece is simultaneously a groovy crowd-pleaser and an acrobatic showstopper. ?Meat Salad? gives the advanced bass trombonist the opportunity unleash his/her full repertoire of tricks including: trills, growls, turns, glissandi, extended range, and just about every type articulation imaginable.

This piece was premiered in August 2019 at the 2nd annual Vancouver Trombone Week, with the composer adding an emphatic (if unsophisticated) cowbell accompaniment to Morgenstern?s bass trombone.

For advanced performers.

Below is a short track of Meat Salad brilliantly performed by Vancouver Symphony Bass Trombonist Ilan Morgenstern.

Earth Summoner for Unaccompanied Bass Trombone by Jason Beghtol is a 7-minute work for moderately advanced performers in one complete movement in seven contrasting sections of alternating slow and fast.

This work is a very good vehicle for learning rhythmic solidity in the fast sections and developing an expressive singing legato in the slow sections.