TX All State Band - Baron Cimetiere's Mambo

[jjohn211]

for such a huge band this is astonishing precision.. our Allstate band is smaller and i doubt it is this precise

[TheMustyGina]

@jjohn211 Texas All-State is phenomenal; we do it better in Texas :)

[nicerangelevel]

wow this song was so fun in intermediate band!!!!

[nicerangelevel]

wow this song was so fun in intermediate!!!!



[EineKleineLichtmusic]

I was in this! Last Bb clarinet in the 2nd row!

[hollakrislee]

3:25 was the best part for bass clarinets and we sounded pretty good for only 6 of us! we had that memorized to the point haha!

[theyupafiedjuli]

@hollakrislee haha i play bass clarinet too, you guys did VERY well :)

[itsmauizaui]

I love playing Soprano Saxophone for this piece.

[ByTheCross7]

I love this song! i think they took it too fast though. Still, brilliant!

[jorut07]

I was at this concert!! loved it. i was in the 2006 5A concert band (tuba)

[1stchairbarisax]

this is a really cool song! but (and please don't get mad at me for saying this) it was very sloppy. the woodwinds really needed to watch more and tune. some of the rythms were very off with different attacks. I do like listining to this song, though

[rocbowl]

@1stchairbarisax, This is a very hard piece for woodwinds. I'm surprised they played it this well in such a short time. The fingerings are so twisted you really can't blame them.

[1stchairbarisax]

@rocbowl, it is a very difficult piece for woodwinds, and being a flute player, I can relate with them. But, I've also been in an All State band and all the students in the band get this music about a month in advance

[shadesofred10]

@1stchairbarisax not true. we get about 4 lines to about a page of different songs for auditions to see which of the 4 all state groups we'd perform in, we got our folders with all the music in it on a wed, and we performed 3 days later. Just sayin.

[janewaychakotay4evr]

@shadesofred10

maybe its different there. thats how it worked at my high school

[MrJacquesT]

I love this piece so much!! I played it in my Wind Symphony last year.

[kattykathryn]

this sounds amazing, i'm in the same band as JaimeAlisha and i'm nervous about this and i'm a 3rd clarinet haha

[JaimeAlisha]

holy crap this band is incredible! haha we're gunna be playing this in my senior concert band at school, i'm a clarinet also, 1st clarinet, so nervous about it haha it looks and sounds INCREDIBLY difficult lol. but i'm excited for it it sounds great! good job!

[shadesofred10]

hehe... I was one of the clarinets here. If I am not mistaken there were 28 of us.

[Mr611301]

@shadesofred10  is this 4a or 5a?

[shadesofred10]

@Mr611301 this was 5A

[shadesofred10]

haha. awesome! I'm a clarinet player. Gotta say, that ensemble as a whole was amazing. And ugh! I wish I had a recording of my jesus, oh what anguish. I remember having made people cry with it when we were done!

[kantalope]

I had to learn this in 3 days for the festival winds in florida. was super hard, we failed a bit lol.

[shadesofred10]

same here with the 3 day thing... tho we learned a few other really hard songs in that time span as well. It was fun. You should check out our recording of Slalom. It is so much fun.

[ommy44]

agreed, i still didn't have my part down for the fow concert lol

[kantalope]

lol yeah, it was pretty crazy.

[musicsideplayer]

this piece was really difficult. I've been meaning to ask Grantham why he wrote it with so many syncopations...he's one of my professors now

[musicsideplayer]

whoa, I remember playing this. It was extremely difficult. All the syncopations...what a nightmare. Cool piece though. I should probably ask Grantham why he made this piece so hard...he is one of my professors.

[looneydude9]

WHERE DID THE VIDEO GO?? I LOVE THIS!!

[aobeachbum]

OMG........