It can also be played as a duo for viola and cello, as a companion piece, perhaps to the Beethoven Duet mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern, WoO 32 on a program. Trying to imagine dynamic balances in real acoustic spaces between viola and euphonium is difficult, so I treated the euphonium line as a cello part in order to come up with usable dynamics that can be taken down a notch by euphonium players. It was only AFTER doing this that I realized the "mirror" reference to Augengläseren (eyeglasses) in the title.
You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP, and you can listen to a computer-generated recording here.
And coming to a YouTube channel in the near future is a performance of three songs I wrote for trumpet (cornet) and mezzo-soprano that I call "Adventures with Alice."
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Thank you for creating this and making it so freely available. I had the pleasure to perform this last November at an outdoor concert at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia, SC. Lots of serendipity here: I am a long time reader of your blog, and the search function of IMSLP produced this pleasant surprise while trying to figure out what to do with a euphonium and a viola. When I announced the “Grin Without a Cat” movement, a dog in the audience began barking. Like the wise old man said, we opted to beware the Jabberwock, maybe later?
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