Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli Part 1

Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli
Performed by U.S. Army Band
written by Frank Ticheli

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Blue
• Shades
• by
• Frank
• Ticheli
• classical
• blues
• jazz

[joliefille19]

anyone else notice at measure 69, Ticheli wrote "sultry"? (1:42)

[imnotgone144]

Just throwing this out there. This song is nooooot ment for middle schools. It was probably watered down. Because this is a grade 6. It's pretty freaking hard. We miiight play this for our prism concert. High school. But it's ridiculous!

[ZubinHathiPercussion]

I play percussion, and I am going to be playing this with one of my local wind ensembles soon. I have all 4 of the percussion parts with me, but I have no idea which one I'm going to be playing. There are like 22 percussion instruments used throughout the entire piece. It's going to be...interesting...

[metalmike04]

@Tiffawesomeness haha i cant wait were playing this and me and the other bass clarinetist have to decide who gets what solos haha

[Tiffawesomeness]

I played this senior year, with the wind ensemble at my high school. We worked so hard at it and were so grateful that we got invited to play it at Disney World. I played the kick ass bass clarinet solo :)

[makmegs]

@sixstringking6 soz i gave up music years ago

[sixstringking6]

@makmegs

Those are called microtones....you dumbtard

[makmegs]

@Tokyo1021 @Tokyo1021 it hurts my ears that way :( there is dissonance and there is just being plain out of tune...

[Tokyo1021]

@makmegs ...It's supposed to be that way :p...

[shmittythepirate]

When this starts, the first few notes sound like they are going to be "Reverberations" by Brian Balmages.

[steven4931]

This song supports the cowbell theory: Any piece with cowbell is better than any piece without cowbell.

[baconmallinator]

Ticheli visited my composition class last week and said that this piece was commissioned by numerous high schools and that he planned for it to be performed by top level high school orchestras. The man could not stop talking about all the things that excited him in his works, it's amazing how passionate he is.