Bro reading these comments and people saying they played this in middle school THIS IS A CLASS A BAND PIECE? (college level stuff)

That last trombone glissando triad is pure magic. I figure while I’m here, I may as well share a memory involving this piece. This was part of our repertoire my senior year of high school. Our trombone section was…not the strongest section of the band. There were plenty of cut-ups there, and they got non-stop grief from our director all year. This piece really pushed them - particularly those pedal B-flats about 2/3 of the way in. They gradually improved over the year. During our spring concert - last of the year - as we’re in the final measures of this piece, the trombone section hits that last glissando triad with absolute perfection. Seeing my director smile as they nailed that chord was just priceless. The band finished the last couple measures, and our director pointed at the trombone section to stand and be acknowledged by the audience. I gotta say, I was proud of them at that moment, too.

@nateclark9684

Жыл бұрын

What I live for

@ericebeling6085

9 ай бұрын

Nice, my 8ty grade director had just enough confidence in us to play it. While we were learning is, one of the other directors (trombonist) told us to not hold back and just blast it.😅 We got second place for honor band

@looney1023

7 ай бұрын

Were we in the same band and class lol

@lmj2k

7 ай бұрын

@@looney1023 - Given when you joined KZread, I figure we’re at least contemporaries.

@MemeGamerBoi

5 ай бұрын

@@ericebeling60858th grade??? U from Texas?

this takes me back to high school, man. 1st chair trombonist and sight-reading this was fun as hell. it's a really fun song to play.

@Rhewin

11 ай бұрын

You were 2nd and you know it.

@mell5955

11 ай бұрын

@@Rhewin lmao, well the trombone 1 part aint hard actually, but rip my chops at the end

True story...Clifton Williams lived in Miami, and his daughters Sarah (powerful F horn player) and Helen (Flute/Base flute/piccolo) were in my band( I play F horn). He worked tirelessly with us on this piece. We go to State Contest, and of course, it was played beautifully. Most band members were serious musicians and went on to major in music and today still have careers in music(my 2 brothers 1 of who played that year, are pro-level musicians). We got all top marks of course. But the kicker...in the comments was written," this piece was played very well, but we do not think it was played as the composer intended. Now, that comment totally made our day!! The judges had absolutely no idea the composer worked with us on every tiny detail. We laughed, and laughed and that bus trip home was the most memorable ever! We all tell the story even today, 53 years later!😂 Now this was BEFORE CW was eventually considered to be one of the best composers of the 20th Century! Rest in Peace, Professor Williams.🙏♥️📯

@777maestra

2 ай бұрын

Wow.

@777maestra

2 ай бұрын

We do not feel was played as composer intended. Wow

@allmusic962

Ай бұрын

Wow man. Incredible story. Thanks for sharing.

We played this in high school in 1991. This was a grade 5 piece (college level). We killed it at festival. So much fun playing this piece.

When I was in 6th grade, the top band at my middle school played this. It went surprisingly well, for most part

@eboone

Жыл бұрын

That's insane

@TCHSBandmoments

Жыл бұрын

I assuming you went to melissaisd?

@jah.morant

Жыл бұрын

@@TCHSBandmoments no

@tincan12

Жыл бұрын

Im in 7th grade playing this song Horn

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Жыл бұрын

Ok kid from texas

Every single time I go in the comments of these videos, there’s always some dude like “I played this piece in 2nd grade. We got through it, but it was hard and went SURPRISINGLY well.” Who the helllll plays these pieces after like ONE year of practice.

My high school's symphonic band played this piece! Such a fun work! :)

@shadowstar8331

Жыл бұрын

Sweet but I am playing this in middle school 😶

@mabelarrant2756

Жыл бұрын

We’re playing it this year! 2023

@RammerSTi

Жыл бұрын

We're also playing this in my High School's Wind Ensemble.

@evansaccount1548

Ай бұрын

@@shadowstar8331Texas??

Trumpet part is so fun, really makes the entire piece. When they get the main melody, and the ending (ta taka-ta tah, taka-ta tah, taka-ta tah, taka-ta tah-tahhhhh) 6:15

I played this at an honor band clinic.

Man, the 5/4 always messes me up but I love playing this song as a first clarinet so much ❤

I remember playing this my junior year of high school after we heard it at the National Concert Band Festival in 2018.

The dance section of this piece is incredible! 💚

I remember in 1969 York High School in Elmhurst did an incredible rendition of this. They competed at Virginia Beach Music Festival and were excellent.

Learning to play this in symphonic band, absolutely terrified 😭

Where's the part where the 2nd and 3rd trombone slur from a pedal Bb to F in the staff? I seem to have forgotten where in this piece it has happened.

@Tyler_Dulinski

5 жыл бұрын

The part where the 2nd and Bass Trombones slur from a Pedal Bb to middle F is at Rehearsal Mark "J." Or at ~ 4:34 in this recording.

@wyattwahlgren8883

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tyler_Dulinski Ah, yes. Thank you.

Band just played this and got gold at ISSMA. I was on Timpani 💪

@Biggerton_Ouncerton

2 ай бұрын

Mine too

The goblin king IS the true king of the realm.

@JJ-ho8jx

2 жыл бұрын

No joke, our high school wind ensemble is playing this in nyc this December? You play at carnegie?

@dylanharris8052

2 жыл бұрын

Also a former ny wind ensemble student. I had to unfortunately drop band this year, but i would’ve loved to play this. High key missing it

@RubenGarcia-xm7nf

2 жыл бұрын

I'm playing this with my highschool wind ensemble but we're in Ca and I play Euphonium

@mattyedane2805

Жыл бұрын

@@dylanharris8052 00000⁰0 p 900000⁰000000000⁰00000090000

@ultra9349

Жыл бұрын

Playing this rn for high school and i’ve seen 2 videos of it for homework and that start is different on the score than is played It turned a piano hold with a forte last note into a crescendo for both

I want to arrange this for a country music-type ensemble. Keep the clarinets, combine trumpets with guitar, replace trombones with slide guitar and flutes with pedal. Perhaps these are just the mad ramblings of a former band student now awake at 4:00 am, haunted by bizarre musical ideas reminiscent of some howdy doody nightmare. Or perhaps it’s not. But it totally is.

@sowelilili

2 жыл бұрын

I'd pay money for this to happen.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Жыл бұрын

When a flute is switched with a literal peddle

@Rhewin

11 ай бұрын

Yeah you kinda suck

I've always wondered, where's Symphonic Dance No. 1 and 2? Lol

@sporkliftmctot

5 ай бұрын

There are 5 in total if I recall correctly.

im playing this for my symphonic hs band as a freshman !! nervous but excited

@Teeeth4

Жыл бұрын

You’re going to blow up

@addiepisz

Жыл бұрын

I’m doing this too! Hope everything goes good

this was so fun as an oboe :) my middle school band is playing it this year for UIL comp

I love this piece

I didn't like this when I first played it but it's really grown on me

We were supposed to play this last school year, but then COVID happened

We’re playing this for all region wind symphony this year 👍

@cow5183

Жыл бұрын

Is it All Northwest? Cause if so I’m going too!

@jacksonsdrawingcorner

Жыл бұрын

Bro I did too 😎 We might’ve been in the same band I was 4th chair flute

Thank you

The middle school band I’m in is going to play this so far we are doing good

3:20 Don't mind me, just a note to myself

@henryrev3969

Жыл бұрын

The only reason I'm listening to this piece. This part is so pretty

I’m playing this in high school concert band rn

5:54 best part

Man, it's my dream to play this piece one day.

Our closer for our marching band show is based on this

1995 Kennewick hs wind ensemble played this for a cd recording. Shows my age I guess.

3:52 if you look at the trumpet part, it says trombone instead lol

@crh488

4 жыл бұрын

No it doesn't

@jace123453

4 жыл бұрын

@@crh488 it does, look again

@sukhmanb5939

4 жыл бұрын

Oh it does lol nice catch

My allshore director wants me deaaad those 16th triplets around M for bari sax are brutal , my brain can't comprehend going from C# to Eb and then C nat? Ouch. Rest of it is really fun though bass line gets to have some triumphant moments

As a 7th grader we are playing this piece, Very Excited!!!

@sethreitz3269

10 күн бұрын

🧢

Makes me miss HS

We're doin this for wind ensemble and it's fun.We literally got it yesterday

@kjknightcraft1423

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I’m in that too

@JudgementDragon

Жыл бұрын

@@kjknightcraft1423 pretty sure the whole comment section is or was

@kjknightcraft1423

Жыл бұрын

Hey did you like the chicken? I thought it was delicious

@JudgementDragon

Жыл бұрын

I am generally confused

@kjknightcraft1423

Жыл бұрын

Oh I’m sorry, I thought you were in the all northwest honor band that I was in

who else is playing this for middle school?

😊

3:04

@Music_MikeZ

4 жыл бұрын

Those accidentals were so confusing like Fb and Cb I had to write the notes down lol

@deniscarranza4143

4 жыл бұрын

That section is my favorite, especially how the flutes articulate their notes, and how their vibrato is so expressive and excessive. It's great.

There are two 8th note rests missing in m. 25 (or 3rd measure of rehearsal B), one 8th rest for beat 4, and one 8th rest for the "&" of beat 5.

@cnner1997

Жыл бұрын

What are you talking about 😂

@nikcastle6943

Жыл бұрын

@@cnner1997 What are you talking about? We're in 5/4 time, and in the 3rd measure of rehearsal number B, there are two eighth notes missing in the piccolo, flute, and oboe parts, clearly shown on this score in the video. I know this because the same ornamental phrase occurs just two measures before B. Yeah, its a typo on this score, and it may seem a little petty to point it out, but mind you, I wrote this comment 3 years ago when I was an undergrad, knee deep in school work, and nearing graduation for my BA in Music Education (which I now have). I thought it appropriate at the time to point out this mistake. Clearly, those upper winds in the 3rd measure of B are played with the two 8th note rests in mind: one on beat 4 and one on the + of beat 5. They're not there though. That's all I was pointing out.

Only pieces ive played from this man are this one and dedicatory overture

french horn player that died playing this

@folkcreature9958

3 жыл бұрын

Same but it’s gonna be fun 🤩

@lmj2k

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve played 1st horn on this. If anyone dies on this, it’s the trombones playing the pedal tones.

@peachescream7990

Жыл бұрын

me too!

@oink6158

Жыл бұрын

french horns unite

played this my first year of middle school, was such a fun peice!!

@Mewhenifinalltgetallthebugs

3 ай бұрын

Cap

@quackster_69

3 ай бұрын

@@Mewhenifinalltgetallthebugs well for me first year of ms is 7th, soooo

Funny story: my band is playing this and we nicknamed 3:41 “the fun part”

@peachescream7990

Жыл бұрын

as a french horn that was my absolute favorite part of this piece, that and the part at 6:00

@tincan12

Жыл бұрын

I play horn and my band is learning this song

@fatcontroller12

Жыл бұрын

The part I played was only the octave jumps but hearing the part made me feel good.

😖were playing this lolz

I played this in my eighth grade year

@mightygeneral4359

2 жыл бұрын

7th*

@hericide1

2 жыл бұрын

@@mightygeneral4359 why are you coming to edit now lol

@mightygeneral4359

2 жыл бұрын

@@hericide1 funny thing, it was actually my 8th grade year lmfao to answer ur question, i have this urge to be correct if i can help it

WHY 3 PICCOLOS

@lovermuzak

4 жыл бұрын

Oboe and Piccolo Life For an effect, and it is only at the beginning. Plus if I just heard the piece, I wouldn’t even realize there were 3 and just think only 1

Is there a song with a bass flute part?

@lovermuzak

4 жыл бұрын

Psychic No, not in band literature, for probably several reasons. Even the alto flute isn’t seen often unless in advanced wind compositions.

@DylanHigh

2 жыл бұрын

The Frozen Cathedral by John Mackey

@Mewhenifinalltgetallthebugs

3 ай бұрын

​@@lovermuzak I was supposed to have an alto flute solo for a song my senior year in symphonic band but then 2020 happened lol.

4:10 is I

6:38 last line

6:00

1:20

My band is playing this for mpa and while the music is amazing I absolutely hate playing it. I'm a trumpet lol

3:41

5:08

4:32

0:40

1:04 A

Playing the trombone part on tuba is weird

4:32 J

6:00 mish

2:00 D

poor piccolo 💔 (i’m playing piccolo)

3:40 H

My Highschool is playing this this year but not for competition sadly. Also the Bari sax part isn’t great

5:37 L