Hey y'all, check out Maslanka Symphony no. 4. The UT Honors Wind Ensemble played that this past summer. It was pretty much the best experience of my life, so I urge everyone to practice so they have a shot at that group one day.
thats cool! id love to play this for uil how long did it take yall to learn that? im in jr high so it might take some of the other sections a little longer (i have more expirence) so yea how long?
is it available on any particular CD or anything like that? i'm having a disagreement with myself as to how valid an interpretation that is....where can i find that particular recording? there's another one on youtube but it doesn't slow down that much
@11armand24 The camp is a lot of fun. I went as an incoming freshman, so it was the 1st time i had played with a decent band, really. if you haven't gone before, it's worth it just to check it out.
This man is epic! Even if he was a little insane. But, psh, where I come from insanity is a welcomed gift. Ya know he even used a car? Always walked miles to his performances! He preferred to play dog tired. One day when he was walking from Denton to Dallas and it was really late at night, instead of sleeping in a hotel he slept on a park fence! Guy wore the cloths he made along with a grass skirt so the police thought he was a hobo. But the people from Dallas bailed him out of jail. So my idol!
This conductor needs to read Gunther Schuller's Compleat Conductor. You must honor the composer's intent. Grainger did not write such a massive tempo decrease.
@ZazuPotu he probably has, he is a professor and band director at UT Austin. This interpretation is based off a recording that grainger himself played on piano. I don't know where you can find it in the public, but UT has a copy of it.
@sdgundam1 I'm a life member of the Percy Grainger Society now for 40 years. I have Grainger performance recordings; I have the original published score and parts. You'll need to provide this unique recording to me to convince me. A person's position does not insure they render a valid approach. Just look at too many of the military band conductors. The musicians are excellent. The conductors are clueless. Schuller is all about being true to the composer's intent and the score.
Holy cow... our band is playing this song for UIL and it sounds exactly like this except our ending isn't that slow. xD (measures 82-end) Good job :) I'm really going to miss playing this piece.
My band plays this piece I play Clarinet my sis plays Euphonium ^^ LUV THE GRANGER KICK!!!!!! In fact, my badn just had a concert today i just got back And we played this piece :D
hahah! i prefer the term 'band pimp' rather than 'band geek'! we're awesome, ok!? we can tell all of those people who call us geek that we are awesome pimps!
oh haha my suburb is very simple, its got 2 junior highschools and 1 highschool. I dont think there are any all boy all girl or other private schools in my town
True, you cannot hear the upper woodwinds in this video, but everyone who says a certain section has power over others is completely WRONG. Everyone who has ever been in a remotely decent concert band knows of the pyramid/triangle balance. Before you comment on this stuff you should probably get your facts right. You should be able to hear everything equally, and listen to those around you while you are playing.
I just recently saw the US Marine band, and I noticed that the brass section alone had the flutes and clarinets outnumbered by almost double. My point is that if played out correctly, the high woodwinds can easily sing out over the brass. It's all about projection.
we played this with my band, but we all despised it. This sounds pretty good. Really like the xylophone part. When we played it, after the pause, we took right off into it. Our band director almost had a heart attack because he said that very few bands could do that and have it sound good. The last run in the flute part killed us off. What grade/level are you in?
wow, pretty difficult program for a middle school band. one of our lower bands was considering shadow rituals but ended up doing a harder piece. but my band sight read it and it's not an easy middle school piece.
Westbrook, down in friendswood, for UIL we are lso playing Rolling Thunder (yes, we are THAT good) and Courtly Airs and Dances. our UIL is in like 2 wees though :/
srry for typos. and yes, i know colleges can sightred tis kind of stuff, thats y they are college bands, we are in freaking middle school. rolling thunder. middle school. that shouldnt happen. our band director got laughed at when he was at a meeting for saying we were playin that. then we played it for them, and they all apologized. lol :)
we weren't a college, we were a bunch of highschoolers who had never played together before and we put this and 3 other pieces together pretty decently in 5 days. this was at ut longhorn band camp.
I wasnt saying you were lying about the songs your band is playing . I meant that the fact that all you friendswood kid's are stuck up and always brag about how good you guys are. As a matter of fact we did yall a favor by moving up to 5A.
yeah, the friendswod kids are stuck up, i come from Seabrook, lower south, but the WAVE program is there, and i have to go to it. WAVE is like for gifted and talented ppl, we help the schools averages stay up cuz the regular kids ae all retarded
are you serious? when bands play things really fast, unless they're pretty good they sacrifice the quality of there performance (i.e. can't tongue or move their fingers fast enough or in sync).
To some extent, I agree, having been in "that HS band that sometimes played the piece just a teeny bit faster than they should have." But you should have heard us fly through "Sleigh Ride" at Christmas.
Still, I found myself quite impressed on the first occasion where I heard an ensemble play the piece quickly and well. I think the piece is well played here, but the tempo at the start of the accelerando is almost so slow a to be jerky.
Still, it's a great and fun piece of music to play.
Speed shouldn't sacrifice quality unless you reach a speed that fingers could not physically respond too :O. The real problem is breaking the mental barrier that keeps you from handling the higher tempos (which involves lots of trial and error and burning away those mental mistakes... and lots of good valve oil).
That's right. It does take practice and determination. There are two videos on YouTube: one of Grainger playing the piece on the piano, and one of the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra playing the piece under the direction of Sir Henry Wood. Both are old recordings, and so the sound quality isn't stellar, but they both give you some idea of just how well the piece can be played with a light, bouncy, quick tempo. Familiarity, and practice...
remember that this is a British march-like piece. They aren't concerned with making it as fast as possible. American music tends to be speed obsessed, take a look at Portrait of a Clown by Tichelli. Grainger's pieces sometimes have the illusion of being fast when the tempo is still under 130 (Molly on the Shore caps out at 122-ish).
Take the tempo you need to be expressive. The Pachelbel canon at 60 vs 160 is two very different songs.
I agree, I did it too in 7th grade (from texas as well). Portrait is deceptively easy, the tempo is simple enough to get to, the notes are easy, what makes it hard is that it is very open harmonically. So to make the chords sound good you have to now how to tune each part of the chords and balance the ensemble correctly to them. There's other stuff involved in it too, but the 500 word limit prevents further explanation.
yeah, both times it's an oboe feature, but the 2nd time there might also be a flute or clarinet playing along - but both times it's an oboe as the main instrument.
they're both great conductors, but junkin especially! you band director really told your band to watch this vid? thats awesome. people have said that before about some of my other band videos. thats always really flattering.
thast very true... i didnt notice.. i was just focusing on the girl tuba player... she just sat there with her tuba and didnt play much.. lol .. thanks though.. it helped! :D
if you could help me out on the tuba part... were going to do this piece for U.I.L again and i need help... howcome the tubas only come in on sertain parts when on the piece i have, i practicly play through the entire song?
if you look, for much of the beginning, we have a tuba playing, but only one person. the beginning features mainly the woodwinds so you can hear the low reeds really well, but you can also hear the tuba. from like measure 33 to the end, the tuba plays nonstop.
it was longhorn band camp at the university of texas in austin. if you make the top band, they are quite good. it's a lot of fun, so i'd really recommend it if you can go.
wow, who cares if a middle schoool band played this. highschool and college bands play this all the time. whats important about this piece is not it's difficulty but that it's a very famous piece by one of the most influential band composers ever and it's important for all bands to play his music.
besides that, we probably kicked your bands ass, and we didn't have 4 months to work this up for uil, we had 5 days.
thats alright. we were at band camp - so it was people from all over the country that had never played together. we played this piece and 3 others and had 5 days to work the 4 up. i kinda over reacted with my replies. it's awesome that a middle school band could play this piece. i would have loved to play music like that in middle school.
LMC needs to start selling CDs of the conerts. The other camps I go to all do it, so there's no reason LCM can't. Especially with how popular it is. It's not like people wouldn't buy it.
there was actually pretty huge dynamic contrast, but this was recorded with my cheap camera and this is the best it'll do (which i think is still pretty good) - but this is no professional recording :)
whats UNT? north texas? if so, i like their recording, but i think ours was a more powerful. personally, i'd rather listen to ours, but their band is amazing.
Yeah... I loved it! I have both of them on a CD too. It's by some college band though. But yeah, I agree about how he changed up the ending. It was different, but it made it better.
Ya that is the recording. Its on one of those "teaching music through performance in band" cd's. Great song...but too slow at the beginning of the accelerando..its still nice though.
i actually really liked the interpretation we played. i think it made it much more fun to listen to and added something really new interesting. i'd much rather play it like that than how most people do. it was based off some recording of percy grainger playing on the piano. i dont know the recording though.
I thought it was AWESOME. I've heard this before, so I knew what it was gonna sound like, but it was pretty cool hearing it in person. We played alot slower than I've heard most bands play it though... but in a way, I think that was good.
yeah, same here. my band director had given me a cd with both of the grainger pieces on it (they're typically paired together apparently) so i knew the music to some extent also. i thought the way we took the end was much better than the normal way though. the really slow stuff with the rising and falling tempo and then a steady accel - awesome! and the chromatics at the end were awesome
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livisuarusrex 1 day ago
:(
livisuarusrex 1 day ago
me no likey
livisuarusrex 1 day ago
BAD
livisuarusrex 1 day ago
Second trombone
SirTacosGamer 1 week ago
Playin for a contest
SirTacosGamer 1 week ago
im in middle school and we`re playing this
its really easy
kwekilleronsvr 3 weeks ago
I play this for contest
MixMasterTheBomb 1 month ago
@kittyluvr me too :)
rosebuds186 2 months ago
playing this in 7th grade TT.TT
kittyluvr765 2 months ago
LOVELY!!!!!!!!!@@@@@@@@@
stringsisters2 7 months ago
Im terrible at this song D:
MizzUBFunky 10 months ago
@MizzUBFunky don't worry i've just tried some of it on the ocarina and i was well shit
sharky1105 8 months ago
bit too slow
keridog1 10 months ago
Hey y'all, check out Maslanka Symphony no. 4. The UT Honors Wind Ensemble played that this past summer. It was pretty much the best experience of my life, so I urge everyone to practice so they have a shot at that group one day.
starwarsjunkie7777 11 months ago
this doesn't seem quite together...
ZeronFXL 11 months ago
I played 1st clarinet on this song in HS!! That was one of my favoritesongs in high school.
MariannNicole 11 months ago
this song is sooooooo hard! i play the clarinet so i have all the fast stuff!
kookykallie 1 year ago
its good very good but you cant beat it in a moris side i am form england in case your wondering
thecowmanisherenow 1 year ago
love this song((: played it last year
**French Horn**
MusicIzLife7 1 year ago
i play baritone there are none visible but iam playing this song in my orchestra
supercottonjack 1 year ago
nothing is wrong with the players or conductor or anything
i just really hate this piece
SwedishChef908 1 year ago
thats cool! id love to play this for uil how long did it take yall to learn that? im in jr high so it might take some of the other sections a little longer (i have more expirence) so yea how long?
600bri 1 year ago
@600bri 5 days
ThaATXBalla 1 year ago
a good ol' english folk tune :) nice
JimBell1984 1 year ago
wow
theonlyoverseer 1 year ago
I love xylophone parts like that, AND when they're played so amazing!
Moragomi 1 year ago
hey are school auctually has outfits dumass's
lol
Devinleds23 1 year ago
We did this in grade 7. VERY enjoyable =)
Keiferisthebest 1 year ago
as to that recording that grainger himself made
is it available on any particular CD or anything like that? i'm having a disagreement with myself as to how valid an interpretation that is....where can i find that particular recording? there's another one on youtube but it doesn't slow down that much
dvarsovia 1 year ago
Huh...Not quite the Sheperd's Hey I know (the actual Morris dance), but it sounds familiar. He probably another tradition.
FerreTrip 1 year ago
wait i didnt hear the solo of the flute ?!?!?!
TheCandyGirl97 1 year ago
not many flutes, not lots of sound from themm ):
TheCandyGirl97 1 year ago
My High School Symphony Band recently did this. It's such a nice piece.
AguyinaRPG 1 year ago
epic finish
mrjli 1 year ago
Hey did you like the camp. I play alto sax and im going to the camp this summer. im going to be a sophmore.
11armand24 1 year ago
@11armand24 The camp is a lot of fun. I went as an incoming freshman, so it was the 1st time i had played with a decent band, really. if you haven't gone before, it's worth it just to check it out.
ThaATXBalla 1 year ago
This man is epic! Even if he was a little insane. But, psh, where I come from insanity is a welcomed gift. Ya know he even used a car? Always walked miles to his performances! He preferred to play dog tired. One day when he was walking from Denton to Dallas and it was really late at night, instead of sleeping in a hotel he slept on a park fence! Guy wore the cloths he made along with a grass skirt so the police thought he was a hobo. But the people from Dallas bailed him out of jail. So my idol!
ForegottenLover 1 year ago
everybody wish me luck tommorow! im the first sax soloist and where playing this at UIL tommorow!!!! :) :) :) im sooo nervoussss!!!
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ZazuPotu 1 year ago
This conductor needs to read Gunther Schuller's Compleat Conductor. You must honor the composer's intent. Grainger did not write such a massive tempo decrease.
ZazuPotu 1 year ago
@ZazuPotu he probably has, he is a professor and band director at UT Austin. This interpretation is based off a recording that grainger himself played on piano. I don't know where you can find it in the public, but UT has a copy of it.
sdgundam1 1 year ago
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@sdgundam1 I'm a life member of the Percy Grainger Society now for 40 years. I have Grainger performance recordings; I have the original published score and parts. You'll need to provide this unique recording to me to convince me. A person's position does not insure they render a valid approach. Just look at too many of the military band conductors. The musicians are excellent. The conductors are clueless. Schuller is all about being true to the composer's intent and the score.
ZazuPotu 1 year ago
Holy cow... our band is playing this song for UIL and it sounds exactly like this except our ending isn't that slow. xD (measures 82-end) Good job :) I'm really going to miss playing this piece.
TheAllycatPrincess 2 years ago
I agree....the accelerando at measure 82 started much too slow....overall a good job with the piece
shadrickwilliams 1 year ago
My band plays this piece I play Clarinet my sis plays Euphonium ^^ LUV THE GRANGER KICK!!!!!! In fact, my badn just had a concert today i just got back And we played this piece :D
xTheAllyKatx 2 years ago
im clarinet player and im in junior gigh 6th grade we are suppose to play this song for a festival in june so wish me luck guys
wolfgang0110 2 years ago
i'm a trombone player! trombones are great! lmao
jennageniosity 2 years ago
trombone bretheren! haha
kookykoala333 2 years ago
Aren't they amazing?!
jennageniosity 2 years ago
yes they are haha, im a total band geek, in the marching band, jazz band, wind ensemble everything u can think of that a trombone can play
kookykoala333 2 years ago
hahah! i prefer the term 'band pimp' rather than 'band geek'! we're awesome, ok!? we can tell all of those people who call us geek that we are awesome pimps!
jennageniosity 2 years ago
rofl, well in our school we wear the "geek" label with pride! We rub it in all the jocks' faces, its lots of fun haha
kookykoala333 2 years ago
hahah i can see some trombone player goin up to the jocks and play in their ears!! HAHAHAH
jennageniosity 2 years ago
haha yea we love getting on theyre nerves, i live in a cushy town, the jocks are all talk.
kookykoala333 2 years ago
yeah it's all good...but i ignore them anyway PLUS i go to an all girls school :P
jennageniosity 2 years ago
oh haha my suburb is very simple, its got 2 junior highschools and 1 highschool. I dont think there are any all boy all girl or other private schools in my town
kookykoala333 2 years ago
was their any horn in that?
wjsado 2 years ago
Yes, there should be the pyramid balance, but clarinets are the middle of the band and should be able to be heard.
sftballsweeti444 2 years ago
True, you cannot hear the upper woodwinds in this video, but everyone who says a certain section has power over others is completely WRONG. Everyone who has ever been in a remotely decent concert band knows of the pyramid/triangle balance. Before you comment on this stuff you should probably get your facts right. You should be able to hear everything equally, and listen to those around you while you are playing.
HysteriaEthics666 2 years ago 2
True as it may be, a lot of slow songs have long parts of brass players resting, where upper woodwinds can get the spotlight.
SmartSpriter 2 years ago
i think the brass should always be the most powerful, they have a much deeper sound.
shaylen911 2 years ago
I just recently saw the US Marine band, and I noticed that the brass section alone had the flutes and clarinets outnumbered by almost double. My point is that if played out correctly, the high woodwinds can easily sing out over the brass. It's all about projection.
TheFoolhardyMusician 2 years ago 5
holy crap its a trombone army!
ricersbrotherd16 2 years ago 11
as it should be
shaylen911 2 years ago
@ricersbrotherd16 hahaha i noticed that imediatly... i have played trombone then my director changed me to tuba :/
Teddy33196 1 year ago
this is a really fun song to play. :)
siLveRscOpe13x 2 years ago 2
the clarinet is best cuzz i play it!!! lol :D
cupcake88ish 2 years ago
i love this song i will not stop playiing or hear that song it awsome:D
a14330911969 2 years ago
i played this in music class its so awsome
lollypop3259 2 years ago 3
ahhh i love that oboe from :15-:20
gottheurgency 2 years ago 4
great piece!
MrNobodyization 2 years ago 2
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TOO SLOW
tzfootfairy 2 years ago
I love playing that f horn solo
JakeNoluv 2 years ago
The bass line at 1:33 to 1:39 distracts me when I play this song in band... makes me laugh for no apparent reason XD
HoBoMoBob 2 years ago
I always found this peice quite lovely. In my high school/middle school band I play the baritone part and I have to say it's a very fun piece
megasico 2 years ago
This composition is so witty and so much fun it always makes me smile.I thought the band were excellent.
patlaws 2 years ago
Excellent, enjoyed it!
clarinetmeister 2 years ago
Were playing this only like 2 times faster! I play the oboe in this and its so awesome! Love the song :D
AliceCfan 2 years ago
Love this song! We're playing it in my band right now- intense song!
HunkeyDorey101 2 years ago
i love that brass section! my high school band is doing this
gottheurgency 2 years ago
hahahaha im in middle school and we r playing that just as good but even faster hahahaha it was good though
cgarza44 2 years ago
your lieing lol but good try
superman84241 2 years ago 2
I love the tone...tempo, eh...if you only have a week and anyone can join this music camp, i get it.
langleywil 2 years ago
for my band after the pause
we resumed at normal speed then sped up from there. it was wayy crazy.
PanickedPocky 2 years ago
Does anyone know when the 2009 performance will be posted?..
Yodrillz 2 years ago
we played this with my band, but we all despised it. This sounds pretty good. Really like the xylophone part. When we played it, after the pause, we took right off into it. Our band director almost had a heart attack because he said that very few bands could do that and have it sound good. The last run in the flute part killed us off. What grade/level are you in?
mackashina 2 years ago
when this video was made, it was the summer before my freshman year in highschool. now, next school year i'll be a sophomore
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
BEST SONG EVER
badsalad313 2 years ago 2
Very well performed.
whataburgerfan1 2 years ago
Alfredo! What the?!
Fatass, it's Erik.
Don't talk down on the Friendswood kids!
They have a really good band, and are very friendly. You prolly bumped into some of them on a bad day.
I'll admit that both of our programs are extremely amazing. In example of DALLAS! Wooh! Trips!
But anyways... Dickinson & Friendswood= Like... brothers. No matter the size. We share the same colors. So :D
schnitzelpro 2 years ago
Erik shut the hell up this why you have no friends lol jk and what the hell are you talking about like brothers what have you been smoking
AlfredoVazquez12 2 years ago
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j565c 2 years ago
wow, pretty difficult program for a middle school band. one of our lower bands was considering shadow rituals but ended up doing a harder piece. but my band sight read it and it's not an easy middle school piece.
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
Haha my high school band is playing this
Sherman, Texas
TROGDORKING 2 years ago
wow, im from texas and a middle school band is playing this. and ours sounds better
castforarm56 2 years ago
1. i doubt it
2. we worked this up in 5 days, not 5 months like you probably did.
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
3. kiss my ass
sdgundam1 2 years ago
Im from Texas also! High school tho. and we played thru this is one day.. Wasnt that hard.. what school do you go to?
alildrumhappy 2 years ago
Westbrook, down in friendswood, for UIL we are lso playing Rolling Thunder (yes, we are THAT good) and Courtly Airs and Dances. our UIL is in like 2 wees though :/
castforarm56 2 years ago
Man. our UIL was like, 3 weeks ago... Lucky.
alildrumhappy 2 years ago
srry for typos. and yes, i know colleges can sightred tis kind of stuff, thats y they are college bands, we are in freaking middle school. rolling thunder. middle school. that shouldnt happen. our band director got laughed at when he was at a meeting for saying we were playin that. then we played it for them, and they all apologized. lol :)
castforarm56 2 years ago
we weren't a college, we were a bunch of highschoolers who had never played together before and we put this and 3 other pieces together pretty decently in 5 days. this was at ut longhorn band camp.
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
oh sweetness, i was thinkin of doin that in a year or two
castforarm56 2 years ago
sureeeeee you are. God i hate friendswood
AlfredoVazquez12 2 years ago
look us up online, im not lying
castforarm56 2 years ago
I wasnt saying you were lying about the songs your band is playing . I meant that the fact that all you friendswood kid's are stuck up and always brag about how good you guys are. As a matter of fact we did yall a favor by moving up to 5A.
AlfredoVazquez12 2 years ago
yeah, the friendswod kids are stuck up, i come from Seabrook, lower south, but the WAVE program is there, and i have to go to it. WAVE is like for gifted and talented ppl, we help the schools averages stay up cuz the regular kids ae all retarded
castforarm56 2 years ago
Yeah they really are . Im from dickinson we are like sworn enemies with them i cant stand any of them.
AlfredoVazquez12 2 years ago
Colleges can sightread this kind of music, ATX's school probably wanted to just polish it up before performing it.
drfarrin 2 years ago
this was a band camp, we learned this and 3 other pieces in 5 days and most of these people had never seen or played together before.
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
Waaaaayyyy too slow.
IvorEvilen 3 years ago
i don't think it sounds better much faster than this. besides that, must groups that play much faster than this suck.
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
Dunno what gives you that idea. The speed you play it at shouldn't have any effect on how well you play it.
ka0tix 2 years ago
are you serious? when bands play things really fast, unless they're pretty good they sacrifice the quality of there performance (i.e. can't tongue or move their fingers fast enough or in sync).
ThaATXBalla 2 years ago
To some extent, I agree, having been in "that HS band that sometimes played the piece just a teeny bit faster than they should have." But you should have heard us fly through "Sleigh Ride" at Christmas.
Still, I found myself quite impressed on the first occasion where I heard an ensemble play the piece quickly and well. I think the piece is well played here, but the tempo at the start of the accelerando is almost so slow a to be jerky.
Still, it's a great and fun piece of music to play.
jthweatt 2 years ago
Speed shouldn't sacrifice quality unless you reach a speed that fingers could not physically respond too :O. The real problem is breaking the mental barrier that keeps you from handling the higher tempos (which involves lots of trial and error and burning away those mental mistakes... and lots of good valve oil).
IvorEvilen 2 years ago
That's right. It does take practice and determination. There are two videos on YouTube: one of Grainger playing the piece on the piano, and one of the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra playing the piece under the direction of Sir Henry Wood. Both are old recordings, and so the sound quality isn't stellar, but they both give you some idea of just how well the piece can be played with a light, bouncy, quick tempo. Familiarity, and practice...
jthweatt 2 years ago
too slow? my high school band can barely play it at this speed, lol
Dadevster2 2 years ago
remember that this is a British march-like piece. They aren't concerned with making it as fast as possible. American music tends to be speed obsessed, take a look at Portrait of a Clown by Tichelli. Grainger's pieces sometimes have the illusion of being fast when the tempo is still under 130 (Molly on the Shore caps out at 122-ish).
Take the tempo you need to be expressive. The Pachelbel canon at 60 vs 160 is two very different songs.
drfarrin 2 years ago
i played portrait of a clown in 7th grade honor band :P kids stuff.
we're playing this in symphonic band at saginaw high school, texas not michigan :P
lynzimars 2 years ago
I agree, I did it too in 7th grade (from texas as well). Portrait is deceptively easy, the tempo is simple enough to get to, the notes are easy, what makes it hard is that it is very open harmonically. So to make the chords sound good you have to now how to tune each part of the chords and balance the ensemble correctly to them. There's other stuff involved in it too, but the 500 word limit prevents further explanation.
drfarrin 2 years ago
more trombone!!!! and the euph part with the long, high g, need alot more. occasional balcance issues, but over all very good.
ericlawhammer 3 years ago
and ohmygosh, that timpany at the very end was terrible.
ericlawhammer 3 years ago
this was pretty good.
im playing this right now in my high school band. lol
SakuraShinobi5 3 years ago
that's really cool that you're playing this in middle school. my band could never pull this off. good luck with it!
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
wheeee
i totallly play first horn for this song in my band.
solo :D
this is like one of the only songs i likeee
MUSiCandME14 3 years ago
ha me too its a fun but intense song
CodyCCWrestler 3 years ago
I totally play the second oboe solo in this song in my band :) this song is so neat and this recording is great!!!
fartzd 3 years ago
At 0:16 Is it the same instrument as 0:37 ??
Anyway, it's gorgeouss<33
DeeDeeteehee 3 years ago
yeah, both times it's an oboe feature, but the 2nd time there might also be a flute or clarinet playing along - but both times it's an oboe as the main instrument.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
This sounds great.
Sounds like how we played it when I was in the Wind Symphony at Detroit School of Arts.
Mr. Quick was our conductor. He was great...I miss him. c/o 2007
Robyn2011 3 years ago
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darkcontender 3 years ago
Way tooooo fast sounds coppy! I like how my school band plays it nice and slow like at 120 or so but we just learned it so yeah.
chips365 3 years ago
It actually goes faster than this recording.
But this is a good speed.
bandjoyjoy 3 years ago
Dr. C is a great conductor!
dtguitarsolo 3 years ago
Oh Jerry Junkin... you are fantastic.
dtguitarsolo 3 years ago
this was dr. carnochan, not junkin.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
Oh, darn. I didn't know. My band director told us to look for this video and he said it was Junkin. oops!
dtguitarsolo 3 years ago
they're both great conductors, but junkin especially! you band director really told your band to watch this vid? thats awesome. people have said that before about some of my other band videos. thats always really flattering.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
OH MY GOD!
I love the ending!!!!
THAT WAS FRIGGIN' COOL!
JSB1983 3 years ago
thanks a lot! i really liked it too. didn't realize how awesome it sounded until i heard the recording.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
Percussion is too loud in some parts.
Very nice job. ^_^ This is great.
Nipponkoku 3 years ago
Because you know... band is ALL about competition and ensembles beating out other ensembles and NOT AT ALL about the music..
chocotastic 3 years ago
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Nipponkoku 3 years ago
thast very true... i didnt notice.. i was just focusing on the girl tuba player... she just sat there with her tuba and didnt play much.. lol .. thanks though.. it helped! :D
438605 3 years ago
if you could help me out on the tuba part... were going to do this piece for U.I.L again and i need help... howcome the tubas only come in on sertain parts when on the piece i have, i practicly play through the entire song?
438605 3 years ago
if you look, for much of the beginning, we have a tuba playing, but only one person. the beginning features mainly the woodwinds so you can hear the low reeds really well, but you can also hear the tuba. from like measure 33 to the end, the tuba plays nonstop.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
which band camp if you dont mind me asking... and if they have a website where i can reasearch them... i would love to go this summer!!!
438605 3 years ago
it was longhorn band camp at the university of texas in austin. if you make the top band, they are quite good. it's a lot of fun, so i'd really recommend it if you can go.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
damn... we could hardly play grade 1 in my middle school band :P
j565c 3 years ago
my 8th grade band played this for our U.I.L , which means that we were playing college music... lol so sad for you all.... :D
438605 3 years ago
wow, who cares if a middle schoool band played this. highschool and college bands play this all the time. whats important about this piece is not it's difficulty but that it's a very famous piece by one of the most influential band composers ever and it's important for all bands to play his music.
besides that, we probably kicked your bands ass, and we didn't have 4 months to work this up for uil, we had 5 days.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
5 days!! wow.. my bad.. sorry i didnt really know you all had so little time to look over it ... my apologies...
438605 3 years ago
thats alright. we were at band camp - so it was people from all over the country that had never played together. we played this piece and 3 others and had 5 days to work the 4 up. i kinda over reacted with my replies. it's awesome that a middle school band could play this piece. i would have loved to play music like that in middle school.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
It was a decent performance. Tempo in this piece is very crucial and when it's not, this is the result. Sorry to offend, but...oh well...lol
langleywil 3 years ago
Very nicely done, and now I feel much more confident about my own euphonium solo in this piece.
bloodlustrous 3 years ago
LMC needs to start selling CDs of the conerts. The other camps I go to all do it, so there's no reason LCM can't. Especially with how popular it is. It's not like people wouldn't buy it.
j565c 3 years ago
Not bad, but needs to be about 6 times faster!
andrewcub 3 years ago
I agree. I hate when children attempt adult music. LOL
langleywil 3 years ago
if u listen to the UNT its faster and it just sounds better that way
also u could do more with the dynamics
u had great tuning and it was an orignal way to play it
aaroncarabajal 3 years ago
there was actually pretty huge dynamic contrast, but this was recorded with my cheap camera and this is the best it'll do (which i think is still pretty good) - but this is no professional recording :)
whats UNT? north texas? if so, i like their recording, but i think ours was a more powerful. personally, i'd rather listen to ours, but their band is amazing.
and thanks for your compliment!
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
Yeah... I loved it! I have both of them on a CD too. It's by some college band though. But yeah, I agree about how he changed up the ending. It was different, but it made it better.
j565c 3 years ago
probably the north texas wind ensemble. apparently they have the most famous band recordings of those pieces (at least in texas)
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
Ya that is the recording. Its on one of those "teaching music through performance in band" cd's. Great song...but too slow at the beginning of the accelerando..its still nice though.
bbbiggs 3 years ago
i actually really liked the interpretation we played. i think it made it much more fun to listen to and added something really new interesting. i'd much rather play it like that than how most people do. it was based off some recording of percy grainger playing on the piano. i dont know the recording though.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
I thought it was AWESOME. I've heard this before, so I knew what it was gonna sound like, but it was pretty cool hearing it in person. We played alot slower than I've heard most bands play it though... but in a way, I think that was good.
j565c 3 years ago
yeah, same here. my band director had given me a cd with both of the grainger pieces on it (they're typically paired together apparently) so i knew the music to some extent also. i thought the way we took the end was much better than the normal way though. the really slow stuff with the rising and falling tempo and then a steady accel - awesome! and the chromatics at the end were awesome
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
Damn that's one awesome band :)
Hey I was the alto dude that sat close to you. We rocked hard.
LMC '08=best year yet.
j565c 3 years ago
you were the 4th chair guy? and yeah. it was great!
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago
Yeah, I was the 4th chair guy.
j565c 3 years ago
Awesome! This one's my favorite of of all 4 pieces, my 2nd favorite is Undertow
musicalmichael 3 years ago
HEHEHE! TIMPANI!
thunderbird5898 3 years ago
this piece was so awesome. the end was great by the way, the whole band, but especially the percussion. they made it really special.
ThaATXBalla 3 years ago