A Christmas Festival Leroy Anderson

[ensignlilyjavert]

...why is the intro too fast and "Deck the Halls" too slow? It's the other way around.

[AngelaToTheSky707]

Oh my gosh its Mr. Darger!!!

Mr. Darger is my JV Conductor/Orchestra Director at my school XD

[khman1983]

Very nice performance of the piece. I am definitely impressed.

[PiscaCPT]

Bravo! Cheers from Brazil

[alexie28]

a lovely rendition... pity about the quality, the strings make the piece sound far better - good tempo too

[hannieboi]

This piece is for the fun of it and if ya take it too seriously ya ruin it!

[Climber2CD]

Our HS music section plays this song every year as our finale for our annual winter holiday concert called Prism!

[simXboy]

Awesome! We played this in our christmas concert! :)

What's the song at 1:36?

[yomega69]

@simXboy God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

[emoClarinetist]

they skipped a little in this song.... i am disappointed.

[Chewerific]

4:30 the viola solo... if this is the same piece we played. :D

[DrNimpskipoo]

just played that at christmas concert not hard at all and i in 8 grade go f horn

[Jorgenezz10]

im in 8th grade too, just played it at a band concert also, and i gotta tell you, that the piece you probably played was the easy version. This is much more difficult.

[emoClarinetist]

@Jorgenezz10

you're right. they key signatures are beastly, but mannnn they sure are tough on a Bb clarinet. Hence, yay for clarinet in A!

[Jorgenezz10]

oh and btw im trumpet XD

[michelle610ify]

Playing it too, it is hard but I know some....I play clarinet...

[PoondasLMAO]

The piece is not hard technically at all. The only the hard about this piece is to play it musically.

[jma2277]

i played this last night at my orchestra concert =) we got a standing ovation! wonderful piece

[Maverickboi3]

I love 5:15 the best, where the crescendo leads into the trombone melody. man that always gives me the chills when i play listen to it

[Maverickboi3]

I mean the "trombone" melody in my band

[AFdorch15]

i'm playing this for our orchestra concert on friday

[silliewill1]

for a cheep camera it has nice sound

cool i like this song

[cheecho93]

My school's band "symphonic winds" is playing this at our concert this weekend. I play alto saxophone and it is such an amazing piece. I love my part and when you hear everything put together it is so magical. :)

[brian7088]

Nice low brass

[mitchenatorh]

I hear you, so did I, and the jingle bells part at bars 168 to 215 is a killer. That's gonna take a lot of practice.

[vin7531]

tis was a bit helpful since our band is going to play this, this winter concert. This year, i got promoted to 1st cornet! But it was such a large jump, i have to practice.

[dosplat]

i love this piece. we do this every year. since i'm a violinist, i prefer this over the band version. haha

btw, what is that song after 'god rest ye merry gentlemen'? the one around 2.17. i've been wondering about that for a long time now. haha

[mitchenatorh]

its called Good King Wenceslas

[tubanator12]

We played this last night for All-County band, and it was AMAZING!

[SeleniaRedfern]

my high school is also playing this, its insanely hard! im a cello.

[royalecrown]

Playing it too, it IS hard. I play flute. The hardest part is that start at the beginning.

[alpinechick53]

we are playing this in my high school band and the 2nd flute part is insane because it is a harmony to the 1st part and so it sounds nothing like anything by it's self.

[Iwannabubbletube]

I think the strings sound good at the beginning - really movie-scale, but i love the sound of just woodwinds at 0:50 and onward pretty much. Oh, and the strings at 1:38 are haunting. Otherwise - a wind piece. A clarinet section would sound much better at 2:17. and brass can cover Hark the herald angels sing without the need for strings. There's my justification:P

[VanAdriaanWilliams]

our high school band is preforming this, and i like it better without the strings.

p.s. the first clarinet part is pretty freakin' sweet.

[kickasssikchick]

@VanAdriaanWilliams the strings MAKE the music what are you talking about.

[TheSteelCrush]

@kickasssikchick But you have to admit this piece woudnt be half as good without both wind and strings.

[kickasssikchick]

@TheSteelCrush yes that i do.

[wh1pmast3r44]

Hey, if you are from loggerms run u should know Don Estridge band! Mickey Gautney used to work at loggers. Now hes at Don Estridge!

[diddywonton]

we have to play this at washington middle i play bass clarinet so my part is ok

[julygurl97]

Loggers' run middle school is playing this song in symphonic band...flutes have a good part.

[darkdaemon48]

lucas darger is my conducter for 6th grade orchestra!!

[Hastatius]

it's good job, dut i dont like slow-down between the 1st and the 2nd theme. First is ANDANTE MAESTOSO, second is in ALLEGRO. In my oppinion :)

[Kayray2012]

i have to say though, i do like it better without the strings...

[Kayray2012]

our high school band and choir do something every year and this is the song we have been doing for the last two years, next year we are getting a new song but it will be sad to not be singing this one, its very entertaining to sing this one, sadly the band always drowns out the choir, i cant find and vidoes with the choir and band,

[heyhi987]

i play clarinet in a wind orchestra and we play this! I think its better without strings but then I would say that!

At the concert we all dress up in the most ridiculous christmas costumes...chrsitmas lights and tinsel everywhere. Its really fun. and in the silent night part the rest of the band sing along, i have to try so hard not to laugh!

[L0rdrexion]

My band does this song every year for the christmas show, along with Adeste Fideles, with every person from all 3 band classes on stage, and all the seniors dress in christmas themed costumes, and during silent night all the senior low brass clink their mouthpieces together like chimes, and during the trombone melody part that yusukekidsister11 was talking about, ALL the trombones stand and play as loud as we possibly can...

man, I'm gonna miss doin' this...

[yusukekidsister11]

you truly know what i'm talking about =]

as a trombone, i love having the melody.

i was playing in our partner band's concert for jazz band. i stayed to see christmas festival, because as i said before we play it every year, but this year's seniors are 3 of the most amazing that will ever graduate.

and the three that performed antics at their concert yesterday, i will truly miss them.

it sounds like we're not the only band to perform antics before having the melody =]

i still have a year

[yusukekidsister11]

it seriously should be my last year, and I know that next year, in our band, i'll be the only one left, and i know i can't perform an antic or make our band director laugh like they could.

having the melody makes me feel as if i'm truly in the feeling of christmas =]

we also did this for our band director's father's tribute concert.

but i've spoken too much.

just thought i'd let all y'all know how much this song means to me, especially this year.

[yusukekidsister11]

a partner band of ours did this song at the end of their concert as they do every year.

three friends of mine in the trombone section, when its time for trombones to play during "o come all ye faithful" they put christmas hats on and stood up for our director.

two of them are seniors they will be greatly missed, and i'm sure what they did will be remembered forever =]

this is the best christmas song that will ever be played in band.

[carolyn246]

my high school orchestra is playing this lol

[Tommy211hick]

possibly better than sleigh ride, just my oppinion!! they both get me in the christmas mood!!

[Molinilson]

ehi ma questo è l'arrangiamento della boston pop orchestra di john williams!!!

[musicalpositron]

We played this... it was fun. I really like the Silent Night bit.

[jesusfreak951321]

its pretty good but the violins need to play out more when they have the melody. i think the full orchestra arrangement because it just sounds weird without the strings in it.

[toppie34]

i played this when i was in 8th grade around this time =) only with a symphonic band

[cmsncbd]

Nice job! Very enjoyable. Helped put me in the Christmas Spirit!

Merry Christmas everyone!

[aynakosiaimee]

we have to play this too

its sounds cool...

[alejocello]

I played this once with Batuta Youth Orchestra here in Colombia. I love the "L'stesso tempo" fragment. Great Performance.

[indymaestro]

Great playing, though an odd arrangement of the piece I must say.

I prefer the Wind Ensemble arrangement (sounds more "earthy" with winds playing only also).

Great performance at any rate.

[cmsncbd]

I guess you have never heard of the Boston Pops playing this with Arthur Fiedler (sp)?

I like band arrangement better as well.