American Elegy

[TheKyleRichards]

To all those lost... we remember you

[SilasWashington]

Beautiful Song.

[vvaammppiirreess]

I'm playing this for my winter concert...It's so beautiful, I can't wait!

Also: Was the camera man standing next to metronome or something? It's really annoying -_-

[vvaammppiirreess]

I'm playing this for my winter concert...It's so beautiful, I can't wait!

[kayjmo26]

oh wow, that's me playing the Bass Clarinet. This was so long ago!

[googlymoogly555]

Wow a contrabass clarinet, that's what I play.

[lifeworksat20]

we played this song at school...the first time we played it a concert, mum and dad cried. they thought this song was amazing

[fuZZeManPeAch]

great piece, and great performance, I remember playing first trumpet for it in highschool...ah, the good ol days :) before this real world crap :/

[lolsmileyface989]

I'd like to congratulate your band on your performance. This was excellently executed. Great job.

[gymjam23]

ya bassoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[benjamin47able]

i cant watch this video because the tapping is so irritating

[LaceratedBalls]

Love the bass clarinet and that one melody that is at 1:17 - 1:22

[ekrxo]

Got real high, played this song at a concert with the symphonic band, almost cried during the show. I love this song.

[LaceratedBalls]

@ekrxo Success

[101girlsrule]

i'm playing this one is band rite now. luv it :D

[BandoNintendo]

I can't figure out what that tapping is.... Its not in time with the music.

[dumbo800]

@BandoNintendo Dirty disc before recording or scratched after the fact.

[ipodchik]

Our high school band played this 9 years ago when I was a freshman. It just so happened to be the same year a saxophone player in our section died in a car accident... so alot of the kids dedicated the song to her. I remember the off stage trumpet part was done by my friend Mike... he was awesome.

[gamefreek41795]

Is the cameraman fapping or what?

[jwpolar]

@gamefreek41795 LOL

[venomfang56]

i played this pieces two years age still love it

now im going to play it in my marching show its awesome

[MusicIsLife9091]

this song is soo expressive in soo many ways!!! dr. ticheli is amazing!!! i can listen to this song over and over again!

[jacobflaschen]

You have to push in your slide when you play an offstage solo!

[acedekk]

i love playing and listening to this song! :D i want to play blue shades sometime later in life heheh...

[daneckenrode]

Aww s*** u got conducted by Frank Ticheli himself, lucky lol, i did this piece for my honors band a while back and Ticheli's name came up again recently so i decided to get back into some of his works. Ticheli's a true master at his work

[lizzywarriors22]

it is an oboe doing the solo! stop swinging around looking for it!

amazing song though, we just played this in our band, love the song and the meaning for it.

[rbheartsmae]

I haven't listen to this in... forever. wow.

[alreadytaken334]

Jealous of the contrabass clarinet player.

[XavierAJones]

@alreadytaken334 Its actually a Contrabasson

[alreadytaken334]

Doesn't look like a double reed coming out of it to me.

[skaterdude911111]

Wow this was really good, my high school played this song, it was awesome

[westywales1991]

I play this in my 'modern ensemble' in wales, uk; which is bascially a reduced size wind band and i LOVE this piece, possibly my favourite wind band piece of all time

[michellellell]

i Love this piece. its so mellow[sp] cant wait to play it for our spring concertb :3

clarinet! :3

[TehChaps]

I dont know if it was just the recording or what ( i.e. position ), but at some parts the brass in this piece could have backed off a lot more for the clarinets and flutes.

Still amazing.

[michellellell]

i agree.

[KakashiFan501]

Does anyone else hear the tapping in this recording?

[trumpetdude94]

I do! lol

[skillz162]

My high school band just played this at AIBF (Alberta International Band Festival) and we got a superior plus rating, i love being in band and i love this piece

[XemokidX1991X]

our band is playing this for our end of the year concert and i am so excited. this piece is incredible. i get chill bumps several times throughout the piece. it'll end off my high school career just right(:

[throwerbabe]

i played me freshman year of high school:) it was so pretty:) i loved it

[brightblaze22]

i rele like this. beautiful piece. simply beautiful. and they played it amazing!!

[miles53194]

my honorband played this. and it was 30 minuites b4 the concert and we asked "can we play this for sight reading pourposes?" and we played it beautifully. i have never gotten chills b4 then. i made all state. but wow it was amazing. so we decided to play it as an encore for the concert

[mandasatthedisco]

We are playing this for Wind Ensemble and it makes me cry. :[

[arrl77]

Yea man my HS band is doing this song and I play French Horn and I feel privaleged to play such a beautiful song peace

[SenatorSparkman]

I know how you feel. I play honor too and we played this for our honor band.

[CGWRESTLER14]

Im in 8th grade and I am playing the solo any tips.

[SenatorSparkman]

Get into it. I played 2nd part in my High School Honor band, and all I can tell you it to get into it. Play it as if you were playing it for someone you cared about and they pasted away. Don't just play the music, feel it

[CGWRESTLER14]

Trumpet 1

[SenatorSparkman]

Feel the music

[clhscabandgeek32]

ok, i've played this piece on clarinet, but our band director told the trumpet player who played this, to play it like you're at he memorial or funeral for these kids and teachers who lost thier lives and just let the music speak like you're giveing a speech about the fallen students and teachers. Other than that just make it very musical, tkae your time with and and push and pull the tempo and move with the dynamics.

[Super8Muffin]

we played this for our district honor band. it is so beautiful. it made me cry when we got on stage and played it in the concert hall. just amazing. this group played it very lovely.

[parescuel]

we're playing thi in my HS band, for Forum Festival.

i play clarinet 3.

an tips?

[punkloser92]

This is such a powerful piece. We played this piece in our HS band last year. We began working on it, like, three weeks after the murder of three of our classmates. I think that made the piece even more emotional for us. You could definitely hear and feel the emotion behind it. One of my all-time favorite pieces, for sure.

[CGWRESTLER14]

My 8th grade band is playing this and I have the solo... any tips?

[DarknesShade]

Don't pee your pants. :)

[jmcgoun]

@CGWRESTLER14

Yeah, put your whole heart into it, kid

[CGWRESTLER14]

@jmcgoun alright thanks

[SenatorSparkman]

Which part?

[AngedeleCor]

We are playing this piece in concert band. I love it. It's so pretty. It's not that difficult, but it's just powerful and all around gorgous.

[safkoch]

I have preformed this musical peice as a Euphioum player and it brings back good memories of All County band when we did this.Thanks for showing this blessings to all

[angelicaleyva52]

As a clarinet player, i can say this musical peice has no definate words to describe how amazing it is. Its stunnig and i bow down to Frank Ticheli for his amazing talent to write such amazing peices like this one. Its heart warming every time i listen to it. <3

[ravensrock86]

very emotional piece of music, though that incessant tapping in the video did ruin it :\

[pocketloft]

@ravensrock86 The trumpet solo was destroyed...

[dumbo800]

@ravensrock86 Compared to most camera recorded audio, this sounds great. Maybe a little EQ to even out the low mids, but jeez.

Also, chances are it isn't the camera itself. the regular period of the clicks suggests to me that it was a damaged disc, either before it was put in the camera or scratched afterwards.

[janewaychakotay4evr]

wow this camera man sux...

[dualAproductions]

@janewaychakotay4evr i think there's somthin going on between cameraman and the bass clarinet player..

[GlamourGurl4585]

@janewaychakotay4evr just listen to the music dont watch

[janewaychakotay4evr]

We play this piece every year for a our veterans day concert. i really like it, its sooo pretty =)

[lordofdastrings76]

if you want an amazing piece for a veterens day concert look up a hymn for the lost and the living by eric ewazen. im planning on playing the trombone solo arrangement of it next year. it was written by a music theory professor at juilliard in the weeks after 9/11. its definitly one of the most memorable pieces ever written, in my very unprofessional opinion.

[Mortalitus93]

We're playing this piece at our band in Rossview this spring. 5:30 to 5:45 is the best part.... a.k.a. the 6 measure rest for trombone 3.

[TrillionGrams]

I played horn in the first non-Columbine band to play this piece. The HS Band director of Columbine conducted the piece in Brownwood Texas, and we played off of the original sheet music with little touches that were edited out of the mass-published edition. It was so memorable and emotional.

[coolcat123ification]

Makes me tear up every time. Frank Ticheli is a genius. Um, what do you mean he's an anti-Semite? Why don't they want him back at your school? Well, I only know Frank Ticheli for his great music. I have no idea what kind of a person he is.

[lennon47]

I played this song in my concert band Festival and the Judge complimented me on the French Horn solo i felt more then accomplished

[jonisthemon]

I really want to play this song for Concert Band at my school, but I'm not sure if my friend would be able to play it on her French Horn. She's the ONLY one that plays French Horn. -_- This song is really amazing! She's an alright French Horn player. Never practices and wings it every time we play.

[RaikoElric]

your director could transpose the solo elsewhere

[yOuRsUpErGuRL19]

i love this song so much, the frenchhorn is the best lol! WOOO! I remembered my band director telling me to do my best because indeed its such a wonderful piece.

[Jordan01692]

I love this Song!

I played it last year in Wind Ensemble. it made everyone cry :)

I'm going to San Diego this year for Spring break for band and we get to have a 2 hour session with Frank Ticheli!

I'm so excited!

[acalboi]

Hm, the one time I met him, he was fairly nice. That may have been because he was at my school talking to the band director (my band director was the band director of columbine when the massacre happened, his band actually premiered this piece a year later)

[shaded149]

i wish my school had this many horn players....its just me >_>

[Gonzo6994]

we have about 20 horn players this year

[OrlandoKings]

I was also in this band. the piece i think youre talking about that you didnt put up here that we also played was "apollo unleashed"

[wowbtoneplayer]

@OrlandoKings Yes!! Thats it, thank you!

[nintendoskater]

i love this song!!!!!

[TheDaviant]

i was in this band, i wish some of the other songs were up here, but this was one of my favorites, gogo f horn

[wowbtoneplayer]

I uploaded most of the songs, the only one I missed was .... I forget the exact name now its been so long... it was something like movement from symphony #2 about a storm or something.

[TheDaviant]

ive got the cd but its on my xbox. . . . which doesnt help lol, the song ride was epic

[NoahCrayola]

@wowbtoneplayer might you be talking about the mellilo trilogy with timestorm, before the storm, and into the storm?

[PurplEFuZZyKangarOO]

i love you cause ur a french horn player lol!!!

[TheDaviant]

gogo horns, the only way to go

[Nemmy97]

Ticheli is an anti-Semite and a pompous composer to boot. He wrote the Columbine alma mater and then included it in here. I'm not saying that he's not a good composer (as he is), but he's not this amazing, flawless musical genius.

[jab4962]

Totally agreed. He came to our school once, and the way he acted to the kids, our band director said to him, in front of all of the students, that he didn't want him to ever come back to our school.

[Nemmy97]

Did you know that when he went to Interlochen to conduct at the summer camp there, he told the kids that they weren't good enough to play his music?

[trumpetbeast101]

VERY GOOD.

[SlidingHorn]

wish trombones had come through around 0:45 at the top of the crescendo. Played this in HS too...beautiful song, painful inspiration...

[crawfordsjamie]

at 6:43..... breathtaking

[crawfordsjamie]

Ticheli is truly a masterclass composer... and his arrangement of simple gifts is amazing too...

[Naturesthehealingcow]

Playing this song tomorrow :]

only baritone! :D

[bant23]

we played this my freshcman year it's so sad

[KatieB1223]

I'm glad this was on here, because I recorded my band playing it but accidentally deleted it! :(

I'm from Colorado & remember when Columbine happened so it was pretty emotional for us to play this. Columbine's band director's son came in and helped us with the song. I felt like crying everyday & I hope I never have to experience anything like the students of Columbine did...

Ticheli was a genius in composing this song, it's perfect & very beautiful

[ultiduck]

Not was, Ticheli IS a genius

[czubil]

this is amazing. this is one of the best songs for f. horn. :) my band is playing this for graduation.

[Baritonenotaflute]

we are playing this song an I love it so much! it is so beautiful! I play the baritone!! BARITONE ROCKS!! Maybe the baritone is playing the french horn cues...its not that huge of a deal...

[poptheglocks]

they arent? you can hear it.

[nusua]

Wow digg, shut the fuck up.

Poptheglocks it's alright.

1:32 sounds like ode to joy.

[poptheglocks]

thanks, im not trying to be rude.

im just saying from my point of view.

and im happy that their son plays baritone?

good for him?

[alyssabcd]

maybe that is his son or something.

get over yourself.

[loceanchik]

Very Good guys!

Such a touching piece.

Pure Beauty.

I love playing this :)

[sheedee6]

I play oboe & this song is absolutely amazing. Everytime my band plays this song i get so emotional its ridiculous!!!! The oboe player was really good! :)

[haleighnoelle11]

Very nice. I love this piece. It's beautiful.

[romanian1991]

were playing this and i absolutely love it. i love the movements and just it sounds awesome. its such an emotional piece and you really feel it when you play. afterwords when were done playing no one says anything and our intructor just smiles and says that it was amazing. i play tuba so all the long notes really takes a lot of air to keep control and not waver. i love it. its amazing. :)

[royalwave360]

awsome piece. my band is going to play this in carnegie hall! ( it sounds like someone needs to empty their spit )

[tiffanymariesutton]

3 of my classmates of my graduating class died on March 5th and for my band concert, we're playing this for them. R.I.P. boys =[. you'll never be forgotten

[fishfellet32]

i like it a lot!

were playin this rite now

[flippinghippos]

AGH TAPPING!  great performance

[hannahbbyxox15]

we are playing this song right now! it is so pretty. i love it. even though its kinda boring. it is an amazing song. and a great tribute to columbine.

Rasberryice2: That would be an honor. Especially because this is for your school.

:)

[alildrumhappy]

Played this my freshman year... i got chills every time.. still do..

[FluteCake15]

Ouch, wow 1337bG01 that sounds painful.

My band is current;y playing it too, and it is a very pretty piece. And our soloist on trumpet makes it sound so pretty. This song is heart melting, ecspecially considering what the song was written for. And I love the horn part, it's so pretty. :)

[starofthewesttuba]

beautiful. but i dont like the whole "11/12" system- the texas system is much more fair to us freshmen :)

[alildrumhappy]

i know a lot of texas schools that do the 11/12.. a lot of dallas schools or schools around the dallas area do that..

[TheQuietRiot69]

I played this in high school and will be playing it for my next concert at the U of MN for the ten year anniversary. It is one of my favorite band pieces and I will definitely program it when I am a teacher.

It sounds really good. The recording isn't great, but the ensemble sounds good.

[manchester4ever7]

i am playing the trumpet solo =]]

[tylrcornelius]

very nice job! i've played this song in regional and county band festivals and gotten to play the solo. sad to say my octave jump wasn't quite as clean as yours was. but again great job you have a fantastic tone

[Rasberryice2]

Way to go. This sounds amazing.

I am in the Wind Symphony at Columbine High School. We are preparing this piece to play for the ten year anniversary. I am a senior, Class of 2009, and I am playing the trumpet solo. It is a complete honor for me to play this solo part for my school. It takes my breath away.

I am playing this for my school... its just too amazing for words.

[tptmaster90]

That is an honor. Congrats!

[acalboi]

Cool. My current band director used to be the band director at Columbine, he takes off every year on the anniversary. He actually premiered this piece, as I'm sure you know. Mr. Biskup is amazing, He's retiring this year, so, it's like he's graduating with us.  Good luck on the solo, and, if you have already played, how did it go?

[TrillionGrams]

Mr. Biskup is wonderful! He conducted my and in Texas during a camp.  What a nice man.

[englishguy005]

biskup is my band director!

[1337bG01]

Ah, I played this last year.

I spent over 10 hours practicing that trumpet solo.

Popped a blood vessel in my lip, and I wasn't able to play it.

=/

But I love this song so much.

[klencc]

what key is the solo in ?? or the whole song..?

[iSecksYou]

It's in B-Flat.

[tacos931s]

if you really wanna know the solo starts on a g for trumpet

[BAMitsKATHERINE]

We're currently playing this in band . Its so pretty , I play the horn part and its nice :) .

I hear tapping D:

It needs to stop -.-

[koccoa]

I played this lasy year and I was first flute. This is the best song I've ever played its so moving and emotional.

[zoomscooper81]

i keep hearing a tapping sound in this video...anyone else??

[itwasthepudding]

YES, KINDA

[teampuppystomp]

I do too haha

[starofthewesttuba]

the tuba part is even moving, i played it with the el paso wind symphony

[Starbuck1210]

When my band played this i was on first horn and everytime we got to the off stage trumpet part i cried. This piece is so emotional.

[trmptgrl38]

I played this in honors band for wisconsin... 1st trumpet part.. this was such an emotional and moving song for me... we rehearsed this probably a zillion times but I got goosebumps everysingle time we played it... it's so sad but also so uplifting ... GREAT JOB! You guys played this beautifully!!

[OrlandoKings]

does anybody else think that the bass clarinet guy with the blond hair is hot? he's sexy lol

[gseed19]

This is an amazing song, I seriously got goosebumps the first time I heard this song played through. I wish our bass clarinet section was this strong. I play the Contrabass clarinet, and i'm usually left out to dry by the bass clarinet. But still amazingly well performed.

[FallEnova]

Im playing this, I really like it because of it's really good F. Horn part

[JustinAdamss]

Hooray for Horns!

[doublebubble022000]

I just did this song for the Highschool Arizona Northwest Regional Honor Festival with Dr. Schmidt at NAU and half the crowd cried! I remember playing it witht the other members for the first time and getting teary eyed and having to blink about 800 to be able to still read my music, I played clarinet on this piece.

[Johannuh]

We're playing this peice for a jr hs and everytime i take out my music to practice this peice i get a bit emotional cuz its really sad to think of April 20 1999 this peice is easy but what makes it hard is that you really have to put emotion into what ur playing not just going through the motionsi play bass clarient for wind ensemble i get really tired after i play ikinda wish u were a bit louder my teacher is always telling me that i need play louder especially the last note on bass clarient

[IDKMYBFFSELLz]

We played this song my soph year at contest..we were all crying by the end--our band teacher couldn't even look at the judges...now there's only 3 people in band..so sad, but anyways GOOD JOB GUYS!! YOU SOUND AMAZING! It takes me right back to that day on stage (:

SAVE THE MUSIC!!

[PabloFriedRice]

my schools doin this too, easy 3rd trumpet part lol

[mucolorguardchick]

im playing this for our spring concert. (Mount Union High. Go Trojans!) I cried when I first heard this. It is a very beautiful yet sad piece.

[Wolfylikescoffee]

yea we're playing this song 4 concert season too, (Gorge West High!!) im playin horn

[itwasthepudding]

texas? do you know lauren cordani? oboe?

[JustinAdamss]

Yeah Im first horn! :)

Were playing this too!

[williejudgeordway]

love this song. we are playing this in my high school band right now. it truly is an amazing and beautiful song.

[marion123456789]

frank ticheli is the fuckin man.

[HalGi901]

amazing build up at the begining

[Phycetee]

You'd have to listen past the clicking and the conversations and the paper ruslting in the background to appreciate how the the tone of American Elegy is a really touching piece... Each time iPlayed it {clarinet and bassoon} it brought tears to my heart and iPlayed with my soul... Excellent!!!!

[BioPycho24]

Thats sounds really great. My high school band is playing this for concert season this year.

[Julzaboo]

We just played this song at our winter concert a few days ago. The trumpet solo... ugh. It's so amazing. I could've listened to the first trumpet play it all day. It was perfect.

[insidiousMUSIC]

This song is a tear-jerker, especially when you know the history behind and purpose of it.

[DaveyTrumpetOCCHS]

wow i love it my band is playing this song for are concert this year ill put it up when we do it in feb.

[CanadianSniffy]

this man i love!!

[froggielover08]

this song is just such an emotional song and really shows that even simple music can be so effective and beautiful. i looked for this song b/c were playing it in our band. now hearing it, i feel honored to play it.

[Typet360]

Last year our student director (our actual director ditched us) told us to play this with heart, because of what it was about.

the room got humid from the tears

[coolartgal]

I just have to say that I love everything, especially the trumpet sound in the offstage solo. Well performed, really.

[parkourdudeguy]

i played that song last year, we won a festival in SanFransisco with it.

[bandgeeksunite1]

piece not song

[redfingernails2009]

go horns! this piece is perfect. beautifully performed.

[skeemprincess]

This was my Favorite song we played in high school band...i get chill bumps every time i hear it [i played the clarinet] either the part at 3:50-4:40 or 6:00-7:10

[horsecrazygurly]

we played this for a concert last year...and my brother played it in his band in college a few years ago.

this continues to be one of my all-time favorite pieces, especially in the parts where it highlights french horns.

very well played!

[frenhtostada88]

we played this one year in my high school band and everyone even the conducter broke down into tears, during the song at the concert.

[HAYLEYPMOO]

Does anybody know where I can find sheet music for this for free?? I've been searching in my spare time for a year lol...

[mastelbandgeek]

Unless you have a really, really good ear and a LOT of spare time, you'll have to buty the score.

[Skoog817]

yeah, i hear the clicking. it sounds like a metronome.

[LyssWeaver]

Not to demean the 8th grader who played this, but it's not a hard song, technically. It's an emotionally challenging song. I would be very impressed to hear someone play it in 8th grade. It's an amazing song, and if their diresctor thought they were up to it, I'd love to hear it.

We played in my junior year, I loved it. So powerful, I would get chills while playing it.

Great performance here, just wish that clicking noise would go away. Anyone else hear it?