College Concert Band - Colas Breugnon Overture

Here's footage of me in a concert band during college. The piece is called Colas Breugnon Overture composed by Dimitri Kabalevsky.

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• college
• concert
• band
• colas
• breugnon
• overture
• dimitri
• kabalevsky

[rho421]

To everyone who keeps saying "It's too slow!" or "This is utter crap!":

Remember that they're not an orchestra. We're playing this in our high school band, and it's not that easy. Woodwinds have to coordinate all of their fingers - not to mention tongue - strings have it easy (or at least easier) in comparison.

Yes, they COULD (obviously) have played it faster/cleaner/with better dynamic effects with more time to prepare, but what band couldn't have? Give them a break.

[MrsMikkl]

Too slow to listen--feels so bogged down.

[SuperDave61164]

@hahastandupcomedy THE FREAKING SONG CHANGES TO PRESTO FROM ALLEGRO!!!!!!!!!!!! Get your facts straight. 

[SuperDave61164]

My band is doing this.... MHHSW High School Concert Band FTW!!!

[theclash181]

so many of my fellow ninth graders must endure this piece

[theclash181]

@tankparry97 im in ninth grade and I need to play this on thursday. i play percussion and I must play this on marimbas. if I had practiced sooner it would have been a much easier piece

[tankparry97]

I need to give the people in this video credit. I'm a ninth grader right now in wind ensemble and we need to p[lay this for our concert coming up. I'm playing the baritone part and it's hard. We're not playing this fast but we're starting to speed up. Plus this song is just all over the place notes wise. It's not easy to play fast or slow.

[C0urante]

@C0urante on the fingerboard as a rise in pitch is created. And when doing this shifting, the decision must be made on what fingerings to use, which strings to play on, and how the differences in each will affect the musical meaning of the passage they apply to.

Strings have it easier in comparison? You've got to be joking.

[C0urante]

@C0urante And when do you ever see a clarinetist have to shift their fingers between positions? They remain in basically the exact same place the entire time, with simple, binary coordinates for each digit that create the note that is being played. Cellists, on the other hand, have to shift between dozens of positions on the fingerboard in order to find the correct note, the difficulty of which is only exacerbated by the fact that the distance between each semitone gets increasingly smaller

[C0urante]

@C0urante And, on top of that, the job of doing both artfully and with complete musicality is placed on our shoulders. With a woodwind instrument, the only real shaping is done with the supply of air and how it is shaped through the embouchure; the fingers do absolutely nothing with regards to expression; string players have to focus on creating dynamics, tone colors, and articulations with their bow hands--while vibrating and through doing so, creating just as much shaping on their left hands!

[C0urante]

@rho421 Strings do NOT have it easier! I've been playing the cello for nine years, the tenor saxophone for three, and I've just started to pick up the french horn--and the technical difficulties are obviously greatest on the cello. You have to coordinate your fingers and your tongue? We have to coordinate our right shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers with our left hands, which have the task of pinpointing the exact point on the fingerboard where intonation is good to within a few millimeters!

[lesabre84]

Slow