And The Mountains Rising Nowhere Joseph Schwantner Part 1

[MirroredJigsaw]

And to think that my high school marching band played a movement inspired by this. It placed 8th nationally. I was the pianist.

[Fumbles9001]

This is actually pretty good, but the percussion is really bleh.

[oxysean]

no time signature? interesting. I played Velocities (marimba solo) by this guy. tough writing. but he knows his stuff.

[firemakinguild]

Oh the french horn is so powerful in this piece

[MAGICBY5]

i cant beleive you guys actually did that song. its so hard with no time signature in it. our band director showed me and some friends this song and i was like wow dude thats amazing

[lumptheonly]

I think it's really cool that my music teacher found this piece and is getting my class to do a listening exercise with it. Shows how awesome you guys played it.

amazing.

[StevenShields29]

So how do they make all those sounds sitting absolutely still?

[jjordan391]

@StevenShields29

We were just that awesome that year. :p

[ehelwagen]

@StevenShields29

The oboe section is playing glass crystals at the beginning. The rest is the percussion section and piano.

[ineedagf32]

i wish my band director would order this... i wanna play it, small band though

[ehelwagen]

Who was playing the piano?

I played this piece in college---I like it, too.

Congratulations on a truly excellent performance! (I miss not hearing the end of this.)

[jjordan391]

Thanks!

to answer your question, her name is Rahel Kim, a 2009 graduate of Hillcrest High School.

[philopnia]

woah I didn't know this was on here.

I think when we played it at Indianapolis was the best time we played it!

[electricpaganini]

This is like, really creepy with a picture of the band just staring at us O_O. don't get me wrong, I love the piece, but creeepy~

[jjordan391]

Lol the actual visual of us playing wouldn't rip to my computer but I had the audio; I didn't know what else to do.

But I like this piece too! Great stuff.

[ItsallaboutTrevor]

@electricpaganini lmfao it is creepy!

[jsagan423]

Are we seriously the only ones who have this on youtube? Holy crap, I feel pretty badass now.