This song is sooo intense! We marched to this in high school. Probably my favorite show we ever did.

I'm playing this tonight at my band concert!!!! We rock at this song. It's all of our favorites.

We played this song a few years ago in band when I was in high school. Still the best song we've ever played.

This has to be my all time favorite peice. I played this for my schools concert districts, but theat marching season we had it aranged into a marching show we has over all superiors with it for the first time in the history of our band.

So much nostalgia. I played this 20 years ago.

We played this song in my orchestra in high school. I played Viola. This is an amazing piece. If you close your eyes you can imagine being in the middle of a storm.

I LOVE R.W. Smith... Most of his songs remind me of Highschool concert band. I started in grade 7, and slowed down my clarinet obsession upon graduating.. but ill slowly pick it back up.

I played French Horn and it was so much fun! I love this song and R.W. Smith writes some GREAT music

Playing this for our Spring Concert. Wish us luck! Most epic piece ever so we AREN'T going to give up.

Middle-school memories flowing back through. Percussion here!

I love this piece!!!XD. I first got to hear it back in 2005 when my sister played the flute part. Fell in love with it then. I got to play it at band camp of 2009 and I played the bass clarinet solo. Now in 2013, I'm playing it for my school and playing bass clarinet again and the solo again!!!XD. Great way to end my senior year!!!XD

Played it with my friends in a concert, high school band played this with us, it was awesome...

My Middle School band played this last year. I fell in love. Clarinets, FTW !

this song is awsome and i love how alot of woodwinds are focussed on this song

This song is telling a story. It was written about the blizzard in north Georgia in 1993, i do believe. The man was snowed in and deside to use his time wisely. He did amazingly well letting the music bring the feeling of the blizzard to life.

This song is awesome. YOu really feel you're passing through a storm

i am playing this song with my youth orchestra and it is an AMAZING piece

I love this song. The flute part at the beginning is so much fun to play

I listened to this piece at state band festival today. It was absolutely amazing.

I'm a senior at my high school in Smithfield, North Carolina. I played this piece about a year or two ago. I loved this piece. It has a lot of cool parts for each of the instruments. I personally enjoyed the clarinet parts, since I am one. (WOOD WINDS! WHOOT!)

Played the trumpet and 2:30-3:30 will never leave my head. Such a great piece might pick up my trumpet again!!

I went to all county and our band played this song. it was freakin AWESOME!!

Played this last year in middle school. It was an amazing piece of music to play, difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's smooth sailing from there. Seems easier now when I hear it since I'm in high school.

this song is amazing i played this in highschool i played 1st trumpet robert w smith is THE MAN!!!!!

I remember playing this with my high school band. I played Oboe. I always loved this song.

The senior high concert band plays this every three years for our christmas concert.. And this is my first year, so I'm really excited to play it

This remains the most amazing song I have ever had the honor to play. The song itself is incredible and it's just fun to play.

This can be a total marching band song like the whole show. Playing it in band and just am so happy -3 :)

this is one of best recordings of this song i have heard nice job to the band that played this peice

I loved the clarinet part in this song =) One of my favorites to play!

Love this song. We get to play it for our spring concert in May!~!!!!

i played this song for my last jr high band concert and i was a clarinet! i miss jr high band!

I'm playing this song for a concert! Half the people in my class say they don't like it because it's difficult to play, but I LOVE IT!...It's sad that although I got 1st clarinet on this piece I'm in the class of people who didn't make audition to get in synphonic band...Which means we're not as great...Good thing we're playing the same songs at this concert. I plan on practicing my best so it will sound as beautiful as it should be!!!

We played this for an ajudication my senior year! Loved it... We took the tempo a lot quicker because it wasn't that hard of a piece for my band. I loved it! I was first chair clarinet that year, too. Totally rocked it. :)

I played first trumpet and I loved playing that solo soooooooo much it sounds so nice!

Robert Smith has a very... distinctive style. I listen to a lot of band/wind orchestra music and I can always tell when it's this guy.

I heart all his songs about storms

played this song in 7th grade. still one of my favorite pieces.

My old junior high school band played this my 9th grade year at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, AR. I am 33 now, so you all can see how old this piece it is. It's a great piece that I think of often.

I remember playing this in high school I miss those days

I got a soloist trophy for playing bells on this song. I was surprised I didn't think I was gonna get one. Thanks Robert Smith

Flute for life!!!! we're gonna be playing thus for consert in a month

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same for me

i played this on the Alto clarinet in 9th...i play it on the bass clarinet in 12th now....this song is like one of those starter songs but it can actually only be played correctly and with appropriate enthusiasm in a high school band or higher...it's a really beautiful piece.

i always rewind it and listen to the beginning :D soooo EPIC!

We're playing The Tempest right now in middle school we played Tonoan Echoes this year and we played African Bell Carol Robert W. Smith is a great composer I play in the low brass section Bari Sax to be exact

I fell in love with this after I heard it played by our advanced band:-)

this song is AMAZING!!! it tells a story....the story of a strong hurricane(: all in all, a beautiful piece(:

The evolution of my music experience through public school: The Tempest, Anasazi, and Thundercrest in middle school, Great Locomotive Chase, Arabesque, Copper Mountain Legend, Ross Roy, Persis, Krakatoa, Vesuvius, English Folk Song Suite and on and on and on... THANK-YOU, HAZO, DE HAAN, TICHELI, SMITH, VAUGHN-WILLIAMS, AND WILLIAMS!

Nothing short of amazing!

The flute parts are FREAKING A.W.E.S.O.M.E!

I love how the drums at the end sound like a heart beat

i love Robert W. Smith he is EPIC

My band is marching this for competition band this year. It is unreal. It's so hard and the drill is crazy. MR. RENDECK IS THE GREATEST INSTRUCTOR IN ALL THE LAND! SCRATCH THAT, THE UNIVERSE!

The feeling I got in my chest as a 7th grader was insane because the way we divided our 7th grade band was brass w/ male percussionist and woodwind with female percussionists (idk why we did that but whatever). So what I’d hear in the Brass class was just a big BOOM and then dead silence over and over. It wasn’t until about 3 days before the concert that I got to hear everything. It was such a fulfilling moment, to hear the rest of it. My middle school band was so much better than my high school band.

I'm an Alto Saxophone player and I just got this music, it sounds epic! It's difficult so far, but epic!

I play this song in band, and I play the amazing bass part! It so much fun!

I am playing this song in my seventh grade band! its so fun!!!

my middle school band played this at OSU university while it was raining on the metal roof and it sounded amazing :) im a flute player and still remember how to play most of this by heart

I love this song. I played this at my school Christmas concert. I play percussion:)

Played this last year in band and it was the best piece we played in band

this is the best song i played on my sax a few summers ago in sixth.

I love this piece. Our high school is playing this piece this year. My favorite part would be in the beginning. I love the clarinets and the flute accompaniment (which I play) is simplistic and captivating.

our middle skool playd the tempest and the hs played this song i play trumpet in the 8th hope they bring this song back by time i graduate ilove it!!!

This and The Great Locomotive Chase are two of the best songs I've ever played in band.

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omg!!! i miss playing so bad. i played this once upon a time with my orchestra. :( loved it so much, especially the fast part. go clarinets!!!

i love the flutes.. i pplay flute.. i hope we get to play this.. we play the tempest right now... i love this. so beautiful...

a school band came to our school and played this for us and it was really cool. The loud drum and tumpets sound representing lightning made me jump back and my heart pound. I almost fell off the high jump mat (I was sitting on the top of it)

One Of My Favorite Songs From Robert W. Smith(:

Ah i remember playing this in 7th or 8th grade ah good times makes wish I could go back and play it again instead of being in college :P

Oh snap! i have that awesome bass clarinet sound! i play that solo during band! give thumbs up to encourage me!

I can't believe it, that is too cool!

Playing the sax in this song makes you feel like a BOSS

My favorite song that I played in 8th grade. I was a beast on the french horn solo (:

I love this piece! I played this in Junior High some odd 10 years ago. I'm now in college for Music Education and maybe I'll get the chance to direct this piece with a junior high band of my own some day! This is an excellent piece to teach endurance to young students!

One of my all time favorite orchestra pieces. I used to play first chair clarinet back in high school and this was my favorite to play, especially since I was the only who could get the climax right. I really need to either find or purchase the sheet music. Haven't pulled out my clarinet in years.

My band played this today for ISSMA, along with 2 other concert pieces and a sight read, and we got gold! I love this song so much. I play the bass clarinet btw :3

THIS SOUND LIKE THE TEMPEST! LIKE IT!

I played this in 8th grade. I play bari sax. I got to play all the accented notes. And the melody. So fun. I love this piece the hardest we played that year. Except maybe Dreams of Scotland or Drums of Daruma

Thumbs up if you listen to this song daily

omg i play clarinet and this song is amazing. i hav this song memorized haha good memories in my old band with this.

This song is the bomb OMG i love it

woo!!! the 1000th comment!!! Love this song. We are about to play it

this is so amazing i love it very nice

Heeeeyyy!!!! One of my ladst peices of eighth grade!!! It was our full orchestra piece! We got it two/three weeks before the concert, andhad to change it, because our notes we a third to high! SOOOOOO much fun! Rocked it! And the 1812 overture! (an easier version)

My high school is playing this for our spring concert. Im so excited to play it :D

Tenor Saxophone. Pretty awesome piece. Playing it this year in 8th grade.

This is absolutely fantastic

i remember my junior highschool days, I was one of the trombones that played this song! woooo

i played this song, "music for a darkened theatre" and "halo suite" from the video game we all love. we did it perfect in the concert last year

Playing this song in orchestra along with band and its a great song

Same. Im playing this for my eigth grade spring concert, we did the tempest in sixth. We were like, the only band in south georgia that did all level four music.

i play this song in intermediate honour band...and im LOVING IT!!!! mallet percussion all the way ppl.

i am surprised that my band doesn't play this. it sounds like a blast to play

I. LOVE. This song

Ah. I remember playing something that I can not remember. I think it was tenor or tambourine. I remember for sure playing that gong part. Fun stuff!

I played this in my school band last year and it was fun to play

this is an amazing piece, our MIDDLE SCHOOL band played it for concert festival

I was first chair when my band played this last year.

This was my favorite song to play at concerts in Band