My high school band is playing this piece for Large Group Performance Evaluation this year. I get the thrill of playing the euphonium part. This piece is one of my favorite to play, its up there with Abram's Persuit, 2nd Suite in F, and Finale (Anton Dvorak) as my favorites to play.
I love this song so much! I played this my freshman year in high school. The beginning is gorgeous and is one of my favorite parts of the song! The whole song is amazing and holsinger is by far one of my favorite composers of all time!
I've played Havendance and Graysondance as well as Liturgical Dances, but this was ALWAYS the Holsinger piece I wanted to play. I was #1 in Rhode Island for Tuba my senior year of high school and BEGGED my director to do this, and instead we did Liturgical. Not a terrible consolation prize, but I still long for the day when I can play this magnificent beast.
i Played Tuba all through high school in Canada and my music director had us play Russian Christmas music in grade 11 and then this in gr 12 along with havendance.. unreal thrill to play
Black Knight I agree.... Did they forget to tune up beforehand. There is a much better recording of this with by Col. Alan Bonner and the USAF Band.... Absolutely impeccable.
I loved playing this piece in my highschool concert band. I played euphonium, first seat, and our part was a thrill to play. Listening to this takes me back to those good times
@misslenny23 I played this at my high school to on 1st horn, just fyi i found that just slapping the trigger down for pretty much the entire fast part makes it worlds easier to spit out clean, granted you'll have some intonation issues but at 208 bmp who can really tell if you 5 cent flat on an 8th note lol, other than than good luck, i know the high b flat is nasty, this piece is the only reason i can play that note flawlessly now though, at least you'll have that.
my college wind ensemble read this the other day, and i love it. i play euphonium, and my part is challenging, but it is an epic piece, and it's very easy to picture what the piece is about... i love it.
4th period band ftw
TCartTyler 9 hours ago
Songs like this that make me wonder what it's like to be a conductor...
-Bass Clarinet
FighterPilot72 5 days ago
One of the best songs to play for band.
onesmile53 1 month ago
im playing the first clarinet @ performace evaluation. it is so much fun. not even kidding.
TheKj2500 1 month ago
My band is playing this for festival..it's so awesome to play. :D
KoopahNITE 1 month ago
What time signatures is this in?
icewizzrobe4289 1 month ago
@icewizzrobe4289 it's not a single time signature. For example, at 5:33 it goes from 9/8 to 2/4 then 6/8 then 2/4 then 9/8 again then 2/8
Puddles98216 1 month ago
@icewizzrobe4289 It changes meter often but it starts out in 4/4
onesmile53 1 month ago
My high school band is playing this piece for Large Group Performance Evaluation this year. I get the thrill of playing the euphonium part. This piece is one of my favorite to play, its up there with Abram's Persuit, 2nd Suite in F, and Finale (Anton Dvorak) as my favorites to play.
CNB9500 2 months ago
@CNB9500 Strange. My band is playing that too.
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....Corey?
shaqcruz 3 weeks ago
This was a very "tense" recording session at Ogden Hall! My nerves rattled for days after this!!
L. Heatwole
lches335 4 months ago
im listening to this piece while im doing my homework :}
barrysncream55 4 months ago 3
The 2012 Cadets latest song XD
lolsmileyface989 5 months ago
I love this song so much! I played this my freshman year in high school. The beginning is gorgeous and is one of my favorite parts of the song! The whole song is amazing and holsinger is by far one of my favorite composers of all time!
jngrand 5 months ago
I've played Havendance and Graysondance as well as Liturgical Dances, but this was ALWAYS the Holsinger piece I wanted to play. I was #1 in Rhode Island for Tuba my senior year of high school and BEGGED my director to do this, and instead we did Liturgical. Not a terrible consolation prize, but I still long for the day when I can play this magnificent beast.
Doombah 6 months ago
@Doombah
i Played Tuba all through high school in Canada and my music director had us play Russian Christmas music in grade 11 and then this in gr 12 along with havendance.. unreal thrill to play
irishmurphy4 2 months ago
Black Knight I agree.... Did they forget to tune up beforehand. There is a much better recording of this with by Col. Alan Bonner and the USAF Band.... Absolutely impeccable.
trptdavid 10 months ago
the trumpet parts on this are intense...we're playing it in band
GaseousCosine 10 months ago
I loved playing this piece in my highschool concert band. I played euphonium, first seat, and our part was a thrill to play. Listening to this takes me back to those good times
krbrown76 11 months ago 5
@krbrown76 Wewttttttt I play Euphonium
SupaSileena 8 months ago
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Euphoniums all the way!
igorawrallday 5 months ago 2
Wow, this does not sound like an Air Force band should. This is not good.
BlkKnt69 1 year ago
@BlkKnt69 That's because this isn't the Air Force playing this recording. The Air Force recording was live.
HouroftheHoundeath 7 months ago in playlist Band Music
and david holsinger is my friend on facebook xD
Lavenderlight 1 year ago 6
i have had this director in an honor band before. he is amazing.
Lavenderlight 1 year ago
We're reading this in our Wind Ensemble too...it's tough...first french horn is a bit of a witch, but pretty awesome too :)
misslenny23 1 year ago 2
@misslenny23 I played this at my high school to on 1st horn, just fyi i found that just slapping the trigger down for pretty much the entire fast part makes it worlds easier to spit out clean, granted you'll have some intonation issues but at 208 bmp who can really tell if you 5 cent flat on an 8th note lol, other than than good luck, i know the high b flat is nasty, this piece is the only reason i can play that note flawlessly now though, at least you'll have that.
RFlanagan89 9 months ago
My high school wind ensemble played this a few years ago. It was the most awesome song i have ever played to this date. I play p[ercussion
PearlDrumsAllDay94 1 year ago
my college wind ensemble read this the other day, and i love it. i play euphonium, and my part is challenging, but it is an epic piece, and it's very easy to picture what the piece is about... i love it.
ManaBozu 1 year ago
the best recording on youtube by far
myshilohmy 1 year ago
Thank you for this recording!!
IndigoDelirium 1 year ago