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  • why is it so blurayyyy!!!

    

  • aaahhmazing!

    

  • Tichelli is simply put one of the greatest composers of all time.

  • CADETS 2011 :D

  • Going to be playing this in my band this year(: I am SO excited

  • Were playing this for our marching show next month..gunna be EPIC!

  • Wow, the percussion 4 player failed the temple blocks at 3:45, and they're not even using 3 mallets at 4:08!

  • Heard a recording of the Duncanville HS Band from Texas play this for their Honor Band concert in 2009 and it was Amazing! You can order a recording from Mark Records for like $7.50. Probably the best CD/DVD of a HS band I have ever heard.

  • what is the chain-like instrument in 0.05 called?

  • @jksii3 I believe those are simply plastic pipes.

  • @jksii3 Those are tuned whirlies. They've sort of become kid's toys now, and are mostly used for effects.

  • I premiered this in the Sydney Opera House.

  • Our Symphonic band is going to play this in Carnegie Hall on April 22nd... So excited!

  • I was just at band thing at central Washington university yesterday and the mead high school band played this. I think that they were the best besides the college bands

  • @animexfreakxsammy Hey I was there too! Mead did sound really cool. The beginning sounded so beautiful and eerie at the same time. Did you listen to Puyallup? They were good too.

  • Duncanville wind ensemble played this at their honor band concert in 2008

  • NJ All State just played this this weekend.

  • I am going to be playing this at regional band soon! 

  • Hellz yeah! Did a better performance than the USC Wind Ensemble - the University Ticheli works at!

  • The largest Church in the USA at one time was held inside the U.S. Capital building having 2,000 members. Before, during and after the the First Amendment was ratified church was held inside the Capital building. It was only after all of the founding fathers had died did the Capital not have church within its walls. It was by order of congress and passed by the House and Senate to have church services inside the Capital.

    This happened just a couple of years AFTER the first amendment !

  • We get to play this later in the year. I play Trumpet, so GET PWNED.

  • We played this in Tanglewood over the summer last year.

    Great stuff.

  • We are playing this this year at Lufkin High School for UIL concert and sightreading. Can't wait to get the music. Anyone know how complicated the first part alto sax is?

  • Our wind symphony band played this last year, BLEW ME AWAY. Sent chills through me. So amazing. St. Amant High School band, btw

  • I usually enjoy Corporon's interpretations of works, but two things about this really bugged me.

    First, I have been told that the soprano soloist is not supposed to be onstage with the band, she is supposed to be elsewhere in the performance space.

    Second, the accelerando in the Hebrew hymn got way too fast way too soon.

  • Kell High School Marching Band used this piece and only this piece for their 2010 show called Soul Searching!!! instead of singing the solo we had a flute play the part :) loved that show it was AMAZING!! look it up :)

  • Wow beautifully played! Great job!

  • this piece was premiered in a festival.

  • This is the first and second movement of our marching band show music this year. Our version is much shorter, but it's still an amazing piece. I love playing it, and the drill is fantastic.

  • @aza22794....it's supposed to be like that. it's supposed to be like an echo.

    this sounds great though.

  • we play this in marching band. of course, its not the actual piece, but the whole arrangement we play sounds angelic for about 30 seconds out of 7:30

  • 4:48 was reallyyyyy bad like it wasnt together at all!

  • we played this at Nevada All State Band with Prof Corporon too =]

  • I win. I was part of the mass band that premiered this piece in July 2008 at the Sydney Opera House.

  • trumpet failure

  • Uhh Its called angels in the architecture? Well maybe the first minute. They should call it Demons in the architecture.

  • @jthameschoir More like, Blink at the Weeping Angels

  • 6:35, that part should have started really slow then went faster to add to the comedy. i laughed and swayed back and forth the first time i heard that part

  • @VenomEmperor Aw man yeah they butchered that. The accel really adds to the piece.

  • @VenomEmperor hmmm. is it really supposed to be funny?

  • @missdancintherain9

    not exactly funny but it's kinda nice how it gets out of context if there is an accelerando. the theme is like light vs. dark, then it gets silly just like that, only for the darkness to engulf it.

  • my schools top ensemble learned it in a week and we play it better,.

  • @OCdrummer213 Cool story bro. We had about 2 and a half days to put the entire program together including all of the other pieces we performed, so your schools "top ensemble" that rehearsed this piece for a week and then performed it is NOT impressive, but thanks for trying. Yes I am a performer in this video. Also, this video is approaching 2 years old. Go boost your ego elsewhere.

  • @Saxman3000 What sax do you play?

  • This is going to be the second movement of our marching show- I'm excited!

  • Yea Our Wind ensemble (Marshall University) did it at the concert last night. We did really well. The part with awesome power major chords near the end was INSANE. LIke I went dizzy for a second and even light headed i was blowing so hard haha. Some people told me the same thing. I think we took it a tiny bit slower unfortunately.

  • My Wind Ensemble just did this song I still cant believe how awesome it is!!!!! And we're in middle school :)

  • This conductor likes this song becuase we are playing it tomorrow with him for the NMEA All State band.

  • @bflat420 You guys did a wonderful job!

  • This is an amazing piece of music. Got to hear the San Jose State Wind Ensemble play it and it was awesome...

  • i could use a little more timpani.. especially on the chromatic lick.

  • We played this at Oregon All State honor band with the same conductor. We played it well but it all came together out of fear. That conductor is kind of a scary guy. Cool song though.

  • I love the battle theme part of the song

  • i think this is a really cool song... we are going to play this song for the spring concert for band this year

  • I loved this piece when we ( Duncanville HS) played it for Texas honor band last year

  • Ha! This song is amazing! I didn't know that the little polka would sound so literal...made me LOL XD

  • I'm still trying to figure out why the clash of the vocalist's sound contradicts the melody that the orchestra presents. It goes from an "angelic lulluby" to "fist fight with Lucifer in the sky"...

  • I actually just saw this performed at by my Universities Wind Ensemble. The notes said that the composer wanted to base the piece off the halo that hung over a certain theater and the battle of "good vs evil" so to speak, where both the angels of good and evil battle and meet.

    or something like that. I don't have the program with me to quote it word for word

  • That's what it is supposed to do. The theme of this piece is a clash of light and darkness.

  • @thesayan666 then where does the "Architecture" come into play if its a fight between good and evil? I only understand choral music so......

  • Think about the opening. The piece begins with an angel singing a heavenly song. (this is meant to be from the "rafters" (architecture), but the ASCHWE decided to place the vocalist on-stage. this might warrant your confusion.

  • also, I didn't say that the piece represented a battle of good and evil, I said it represented a constant clash of light and darkness. For example, the "angel" in the opening's "light"(intro and measure 1) being slowly consumed by the ensemble's "darkness", (begins at measure 2.)

    I'm sure you can find Ticheli's program notes somewhere online. If I find them, I'll post them in a separate comment.

  • it's inspired by a certain music hall (forget which) which looked like it had a halo on the ceiling. something like that. Therefore "angels in the architecture"

  • the opera house in sydney

  • At the CalState Fulllerton performance the director explained that Frank Ticheli visited a church (like roman or gothic style) & he was looking up into the rise of the ceiling and saw the light entering & forming a sorta of light halo. =3 that's the story he gave about the Angels in the Architecture. And he also said that it was about light trying to win over darkness, that's why it sometimes sounds like the "dark" instruments are swallowing the "light" instruments. Pretty neat =D!

  • oh wow you were there too?!?!

  • their performance was just amazing, not just this piece, but the whole thing in general

  • OMG I love the little sax polka part in the middle

  • The sax polka part is actually suprisingly a Jewish folk song.

  • yes and according to Tichelli the slow melodic represents the good or "angels" while the fast loud and technical represents the bad or " demons" listen to what happens right in the middle of the Jewish Folk Song

  • i love this song my ensemble is going to a workshop where we are going to play this peice under the direction of frank tichelli my band director says he likes making us play songs that should be impossiable for highschool bands

  • This is such an amazing piece. As i can see, its true when our band teacher said a lot of people were probably going to play this. Not a shocker though, its so challenging and fun :) and really exciting to hear, with all the things going on

  • I played this piece under Frank Tichelli direction at Florida all-state and i would like to point out that this piece is epic but has anti-semetic undertones

  • Damn. I don't think that there's anything Frank Tichelli has written that I haven't liked. My High School ensemble is planning on performing this! It sounds friggin cool!!!

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  • I got to hear the U of I Wind Symphony (under James Keene, no less) perform this last week, and I was completely blown away. This entire piece is great, but that chorale section towards the end is just so powerful and beautiful, I honestly couldn't believe what I was hearing.

    I can't wait to get a recording of this piece; it's sure to become one of my favorites. I think your hard work definitely paid off!

  • I'm preparing this piece with my college band right now (concert tomorrow actually) and I absolutely love it. I am curious, what would you have done differently? Great performance, too.

  • did you get to hear duncanville's performance last spring?

  • Oh my gosh, I'm in this!

  • we're playing this in my university's band! :D

    had to take a listen, because so far, we've only looked through little pieces of it...

  • The lyrics are "I am an angel of light. I have soared from above. I am clothed with Mother's love. I have come, I have come, to protect my chosen band, and lead them to the promised land."

    I have the music right now. I'll be singing it in three weeks! So excited. It's a pretty cool piece, no?

  • im a flute player

  • Does anyone know what this piece is about? It seems very random to me. Does it have any form? I don't see what's SO great about Frank Ticheli. There are many other composers who wrote so much above him, like Alfred Reed for instance.

  • something about agels battling darkness. I was there when mr. Tichell first did this song in Australia

  • This particular piece did seem a little outside favorable characteristics for Mr. Ticheli, but I still respect many other elements of it. As for his other more recent pieces, I admire them greatly. I particularly like how he explores contemporary tone while still keeping them pleasing to the ear and interesting. I don't know many other concert band composers with that quality as much as he does, but I still think there are some I haven't heard of yet, so I look up names every once in a while.

  • Alfred Reed was a great composer of his time .... Frank ticheli is an amazing composer of this time now ! He is amazing composer if you listen to his other works ...... i mean you are comparing two different styles of music right there .... both are very amazing

  • If you rehearsed it in the band, I'm sure you would see the form and meaning quickly.

    Or have you?

  • i was here to see this. it was Great. :)

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  • 2 Questions:

    What are the instruments the percussionists are twirling for the first minute and a half?

    What exactly are the lyrics of the piece?

  • The instruments are just called "Whirlies", and they're just made from supplies at a hardware store.

    I can't exactly remember the lyrics... We had Dr Ticheli conduct a concert this spring and we played this piece (along with Postcard and his Symphony No. 2). I can ask him sometime.

  • They are called "tuned whirlys".

  • This was played at the Florida All-State 11/12th Symphonic Band with Frank Ticheli as the conductor. It was awesome.

  • Wow. This sucks compared to the last version I listened to. And that group only had eight rehearsals. Granted, It was the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, but still. I'm kidding. This is really good. =D

  • wow very good version

    my trumpet coach goes to UTEP and that is the first band that published this song they did a whole CD on this composer its good they got nominated for a grammy

  • are there supposed to be that many?

  • JAPAN!

  • I was at the premiere. Best french horn there by far. Better player than this lowly plebian below me(Joe)

  • I was a part of a 200 strong ensemble that premiered this at the sydney opera house. I was one of four euphonium players.

    Who were you deadly sire?

  • one of the trumpet players!!!! dude! what school were u from?

  • im from heritage high school and so is poshmo down there

  • dude! awesome. the virginia band. i'm from the california band. :D

  • was that whole trip to sydney awesome or what?

  • omg totally!! i heard ur band went to new zealand after. i wish we got enough cash to do that.

  • we did get to go to new zealand. That place was cool but still I kinda liked the city of sydney the most out of the whole ordeal. Not so much new zealand.

  • don't feed the black swans. They WILL bite you lol

  • I feel a bit anoyed. I'm in Sydney, A fan of Frank Ticheli's work and missed the entire event. Realy wish I could have gone.

  • wish you could have been there i'm not sure but i think Frank does this every year. Once again...not sure

  • I heard that the orchestral version of this work didn't go too well at USC.

  • OMG........ *passes out*

  • deadlyxdesire, i was there! where are you from

  • I was a euphonium player

  • ahh, atlanta youth wind symphony is playing this year!! love this song! =D

  • I was in a large ensemble that premiered this in the Sydney Opera house under the direction of Ticheli and Dr. Matthew George. Awesome song, love it. This band is great too :)

  • you guys should watch the Florida All-State Band performing this under Ticheli's direction...intense.

  • Definitely...I was in that band...best experience EVER.

  • hell no. the screaming trombone needs to get outta here.

    this band's version is very bad and not together.

    duncanville's TMEA honor band version next week will be the best.

    good effort though...

  • Cause talking shit about other bands over the internet is cool... right?

    You can put down bands if you want, just proves how ignorant you really are, music is never played the same way twice, interpretation is everything, so please, memorize this, take it to heart then come back to rage at me.

    On a side note, where is Duncanville? I'd love to meet some musicians from this place, because from what you say, they are obviously better than us from the group in the video, right? : /

  • Duncanville HS performed this piece as the honor band at the Texas Music Educators Association convention and it was incredible.

    Duncanville is a suburb of Dallas, Tx, and the high school wind ensemble is arguably one of the best high school wind ensembles in the country.

  • yea. it was amazing, the Duncanville performance that is. I mean this band is talented too, but duncanville just blew them out of the water.

  • shut up hoe u didnt even play in it

    am just playin brooke

  • why thank you how did you like dream of a witches sabboth

  • dang can't even give you a freaking compliment

    rude.

  • I was fortunate enough to hear Duncanville at TMEA, and I was blown away. I've never heard anything like it, it was absolutely beautiful

  • I'm in the Duncanville HS Wind Ensemble! It was an amazing experience to even be there, let alone play an amazing piece like this.

  • haha im about to come to the high school from byrd what do u play?

  • I play bassoon.

  • cool i play trombone

  • This song gave me chills when I heard it in person!

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