Victory at Sea - A Symphonic Scenario

Victory at Sea - A Symphonic Scenario by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett. Music from the documentary of the same name, arranged for Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble.

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[durkathing88]

GO NAVY!

[bosnmate820]

Played very well! a fitting tribute to those who served and to those who died during WWII

Please support the troops in the Middle East

[surferlaments]

aside from all the killing and hardships of world war ll..... this indeed, was america when america was america. i am ex-army myself, but from a different time. for all of you older former members of the u.s. military.... thanks for your service. 

[trajan75]

It takes us back to a different time, All my uncles and my father fought. My Godfather Steve Belloise was the #1 contender for the Middleweight crown. He missed his chance at another title shot because at 23 right after Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Navy and served under Admiral Halsey in the waters off New Guinea. He stayed in the Navy Reserve after the war and trained sailors at Fort Schyler naval station in the Bronx. He never regretted it.

[hitman2actual]

I'm watching this after a marathon of The Pacific, and I can't think of anything more appropriate or awesome. I remember playing this in High School and was always a favorite by everyone. Even the obnoxious ones loved it.

[rhoddity]

You know, every time I hear this music, I keep getting flashbacks to the war, and I'm only 20...

[alger3041]

I know this setting very well, having heard it at innumerable band concerts. Unfortunately, the sound is atrociously bad; one can barely hear any of the upper register sounds, which includes most of the melodic elements. In order to be fully able to listen to this, full familiarity is a must, so that at least one would know what is going on. Unfortunately also, this cuts off abruptly during the last few seconds or so. These notes are for anyone yearning to hear this piece, as I was.

[Kharkovkid]

I`m starting an organization called "CONVOY KIDS" ...Sons and daughters of The Battle for the North Atlantic" I`ll also never forget watching the 25th Anniversary of Pear Harbour with my dad when I was a boy. The CBS? Special showed Japanese footage of gray green carrier planes in the rosy dawn.Then it switched

to black and White footage of Battle Ship row bleeding fuel oil. My Dad goes, "Jap Bastards! they knew they were coming so they had COLOR FILM! in their cameras"... I went Wow!...

[ctfirebattchief]

WOW!!! Who ever that band was and the conductor OUTSTANDING!! Yep got cut off about 30 seconds too soon, but man you close your eyes and the whole score just washes over you. Victory at Sea was my favorite show on TV when I was growing up, the theme still brings tears to my eyes..

BRAVO!!

[phacopidrama]

Nixon was a fan of this actually; you can hear it playing in the background of some of his tapes.

[SeatedViper]

Magnificent! I used to watch this series when Ludovic Kennedy presented it on UK television, and I've liked this music ever since - I was at school then. I have the PYE GOLDEN GUINEA LP with the US Forces Symphony on the back, plus the tv series on a set of dvd's.

[1946don]

I'm 63 also - and you're the first one I've heard spent his Sunday nights the same way I did. My father marched into and 'liberated' one of the concentration camps - we're a Jewish family and the lessons of Hitler's Germany were never lost on us.

On an lighter note, the first page of my 'baby' album displays a small clipping from the NY Times that the SS Liberty is due back to New York in late January, 1946. I was born on November 1st, 1946 ... You do the math.