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Uploaded by on Aug 7, 2008

The Swedish national windband plays "Hands Across the Sea" by John Philip Sousa. Conductor: Nils-Gunnar Burlin. Also participating: members from Kalmar twirling association. Live recording from square Larmtorget in Kalmar, August 7th 2008.

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  • Aw.  I remember when I played this song with the Air Force Band ;) Good times.

  • There are only three and a half profesionell wind orchestras in sweden today. The music schools cut down very much of the windinstrumental education and the yout and amateur orchestras are fewer for every year. So please come here and do something about it!

  • I know one player in the orchestra and I did see some reherseals and - the conductor really worked with this 6/8 rythm, but my friend told me that they have very much music and little time so when consert with those "more easy# outdoormusic - they forgot to play it in the way the conductor liked.

    And there are only this big and good youth orchestra i whole sweden and they rehears only 8 days before turne. And it is a new orchestra every year.

    So be nice!

  • Like all amateur groups, they are rhythmically inattentive to the dotted eighth-sixteenth, allowing it to lazily come out as triplets. The tune in the trio sound like a 6/8 and that's SO wrong.

    As a professional military musician, it pains me to hear that the conductor didn't catch this. Brutal.

  • Sousa said it was also dedicated to U.S. allies abroad, hence "Hands Across the Sea" for the title.

  • Thanks, I've got to play this as first trumpet for a 4th of July band (tomorrow -- never prepare too early). I have the exact same arrangement!

  • It was actually written and dedicated to the Highty Tighties, the Regimental Marching band of Virginia Tech.

  • Sousa wrote this march in honor of the corps of cadets at Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I will also make a link the schools military band - the "Highty Tighties"

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