This piece is similar to having a stroke at the circus.

@maagic2031

5 жыл бұрын

Let me introduce you to a fine man by the name of Charles Ives, then.

@fortepiano4491

4 жыл бұрын

@@maagic2031 Oh my god, Ives is like an acid trip at a 4th of July celebration. I love him.

@bobomber

2 жыл бұрын

@@maagic2031 I've now had the misfortune of listening to Central Park in the Dark... oof

ah, memories of Symphonic Band in High School.

I loved playing Rondo...so energetic!

@ProdAstro-fw5wq

5 жыл бұрын

Claudio Cazador i had the trumpet solo and i nailed it at UIL contesti was so nervous though

@gryphusx5564

7 ай бұрын

Fr me its boring as hell im french horn

Playing this next Wednesday in HS concert band. Wish me luck oof

Love this piece! One of my top 10 favorites in bad literature (yes, I'm a band director, retired). I first played this in a high school honor band in 1970. In college, this was my final for conducting class. As a school director, I did this piece many times in my 25-year career. Many may know that the composer, Robert Jager was at Tennessee Tech where he conducted band and taught composing. I once emailed Mr. Jager and told him that his Third Suite was one of my top favorites. I also told him that I conducted the Tennessee Tech bands long before he did. He was puzzled about this as he had never heard of me in the school's archives. I told him my dad was a student at Tennesse Tech in the mid-1950s (Tennessee Polytechnic Institute at that time) and that when I was taken to the ball games, I would stand in front of the band and conduct. Although I didn't remember this, my parents told me I was quite the novelty and the actual conductor would yield the position to me. Mr. Jager enjoyed that story.

Played this the year Final Fantasy 4 came out on Super Nintendo; the two are linked emotionally into my psyche.

Not gonna lie, I've been listening to this since early-senior year of high school, and I just now understood how the heck a 4:4/3:4 March with a 5:4 B Section, and a 3:4/2:4 Waltz works. Tip for listening to the March: Listen to the snare and cymbal, let them guide you; also never anticipate the beats, just guide into them. Tip for listening to the Waltz: Listen to the high "PAH-PAH, PAH" in the OOM-PAH rhythm, and that will more or less guide you through 90% of the song (screw the ending, you're never going to understand it, just enjoy the final chord).

@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer

5 жыл бұрын

Braden Blaze just count in 7 and 5 and count half the measures during rests

bookmarking each movement march • 0:03 waltz • 2:34 rondo • 5:48

@nolan3936

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@bookinit5216

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, much appreciated!!

This is a monsterous, janky composition and I adore it. Especially the haunted circus disaster of a Rondo.

@Randoman35

6 жыл бұрын

Can't tell if your comment is negative or positive...

@fortepiano4491

6 жыл бұрын

The most backhanded compliment I've ever seen.

Im absolutely in love with the last note in the waltz! trumpet trio is amazing!

7th grade memories. The nostalgia is real. Loved playing this piece.

@zigmaster5199

7 ай бұрын

You played this in 7 th grade! Tf was your main price!

@leonyang3667

7 ай бұрын

@@zigmaster5199 I saw a comment on a performance of Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein arr. Lavender., saying that they played it in 8th grade. I don't think either of these people take the US/Canadian education system, so I am curious where they're from.

@zigmaster5199

7 ай бұрын

@@leonyang3667 ye they likely did it in some kind of all region

I was a dual major in the 70s at Tennessee Tech where Robert Jaeger taught composition. We played this piece in Concert Band under the direction of Dr. James Wattenbarger. Dr. Wattenbarger used to tell us that the rapidly descending parts of third section exactly matched Dr. Jaeger's laugh. Jaeger has a wicked sense of humor and much of his music reflects this. He still resides in Cookeville, TN a town I have come to love and miss with each passng year.

I love how I'm the only one in my band who doesn't hate this song with a burning passion :D

@violetr7296

7 жыл бұрын

Torsopher - same

@guccifartpoo7601

6 жыл бұрын

Torsopher - I feel u it's a good piece but it's hard

@bandgeek0622

6 жыл бұрын

From a composition standpoint, I highly dislike the piece. But the 3rd movement saves me from completely hating it.

@thesmallestfry3

5 жыл бұрын

I love it lol, basically my whole band does tho.

@lieutenantcolumbo517

4 жыл бұрын

...I read this comment years ago and only now realizing its you! (Its Matt)

loved that first clarinet part my senior year :^)

@chrismontoya7831

6 жыл бұрын

Caitlin Jones It's a fun chart, isn't it?

@dorothypena9245

6 жыл бұрын

I have 3rd part my softmore year and i am enjoying it

This is on our Community Band concert program for Fall 2024. The Flute part looks fun!

there’s no way this piece is a 3.5 with the double time signature and the range on some parts (clarinet 1 fs). this has to be a grade 4.5-5 imo

@stovergolfshorts

2 жыл бұрын

Thought I was the only one who thought this, the grading system for this is kind of messed up in some areas. Trittico is graded as a 5 on the Texas UIL and this rates it as a 3.5 for an example

@Anders359

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Sheltering Sky is similar in Florida. Rated a 3 which is obviously way too low

@stovergolfshorts

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anders359 Sheltering sky is like a grade 6!

@patrickburnsmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@calebcoale896

2 жыл бұрын

In Texas it’s a IV

I gotta be honest...I kinda bop to this.

Loved playing Waltz and Rondo with Euphonium

@wyattwahlgren8883

5 жыл бұрын

Same.

Feelings run across the board in this. Few seem to understand the genius in Jager’s composition, as it has been a defining contest piece for more than 60 years. It must be played with great delicacy and precise blend. Agree it’s beyond 3.5 literature. It’s one thing to get through this thing in concert, and quite another to perform it with enough continuous skill to do it justice. Not many bands really can.

Anyone else feel like the last movement is like a theme song to a clumsy gang of misfits in a play or something.

Played this song my Freshman year for euphonium, such a fun piece! Missing High School now 🥲

Loved this piece. Played it last year in eighth as one of our last pieces for mpa before our final concert :( I miss my band so much but now I must move on too my new one! ~Euphonium gang

We're playing this at our highschool tomorrow and I love it so much :)

This was a very challenging piece to play when I was in HS Band.

I always thought that was hella fun to play in eleventh grade. (1st clarinet).

First movement is very reminiscent of Dragon Quest to me. Love the whole piece ❤️

6:40 best part by far

beautiful!!!

This is my audition piece to see what band will I be in next year. ACK

Playing this right know for band

The snare drum piece looks a lot scarier on paper

@yourdogspeakchinese

5 жыл бұрын

It was scary to play too

@abimbolafakunle7070

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I played snare for this song, it was fun though

@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein

4 жыл бұрын

haha I posted this 3 years ago

@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein

Жыл бұрын

haha I posted that reply 3 years ago

Looking back at this again, I never noticed how the bass cl. and bari sax aren’t really used a lot vs the bassoons to help cover the bass line throughout the entire piece.

@smeyer8713

Жыл бұрын

i just started playing this in band and im a bassoonist, let me tell you im so grateful to have the bass line.

5:49 what a vibe

There’s no way this is a 3.5 😳

I love the slight insanity I feel every time I play rondo

My Middle School symphonic band is playing this for UIL in March and April

@Sledgehammering_abell

Жыл бұрын

Same here

15 years this has haunted my memories.... 15 years

The memories of 1st trumpet in 8th grade

this_is_the_first_i_heard_this_piece

05"45" Chapter 6 assignment music; score given in "Modules"

This is the first piece I played 1st clarinet on in high school... not the best introduction to some of the highest notes of my horn

The rondo was so hard to learn but its so fun lmao

2:34 --> II movement

As a flute 2 counting the damn rests is the hardest part in waltz

the memories of 8th grade

@kingofspraycheese1072

7 жыл бұрын

no way you played this in 8th grade

@marquis999

7 жыл бұрын

I played it in 10th, but we could have handled it in 8th grade. We sent an awful lot of people from our school to All State Band.

@wolfer-qd6sb

6 жыл бұрын

Yes we’re playing that this year and I’m in 8th grade

@thesmallestfry3

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, I wish my school was that good lol. I played it in 9th but almost everyone else was seniors

@seanyu5368

4 жыл бұрын

I played it in sixth grade but I had a pretty easy part so it was okay.

Playing Eb clarinet @ festival - pray for me

The gap from grade 3 and 3.5 is pretty big

@stovergolfshorts

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah 3.5 is so close to a 4 imo but 3 is so much easier

7:37 what key is this? Surely not F major right???

6:58

Rondo: 5:47

7:22 personal time skip for melody

Dat 5/4 tho

@EstebanAcosta801

5 жыл бұрын

If only it were actually written that way... It's 3/4 2/4 on the score and the worst part is some of those 2-measure phrases don't even add up to 5, like my percussion part's snare rolls where both half notes are dotted 🤦‍♂️

Pretty easy song, I feel like the presto at the end could go faster

Every kid should learn how to play an instrument.

lol just count

I don't know if this is a legitimate complaint, but at about 1:13 and in that whole section, the snares sound really out of time.

@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein

7 жыл бұрын

I see that, when I practice snare on the piece, it always feels like the timing changed or something from that part to the percussion solo part.

@ProdAstro-fw5wq

6 жыл бұрын

just how its written

Why does everyone and their mother feel the need to tell everyone about how they played this when they were 12. Nobody cares.

@marquis999

6 жыл бұрын

This is a very fun piece to play, and a lot of people in your typical High School band have trouble with it. I've played more difficult stuff, but none as fun as this one. Our conductor really pushed the Faster and Faster to the end for the 3rd movement.

@robertramos645

6 жыл бұрын

🤣

@apollo13oxygentank14

6 жыл бұрын

But I did play this when I was 12! My mum will tell you so if you ask her but she's not on here.

@liamoconnell1308

6 жыл бұрын

gay

@garrettj.rodriguezslowpoke5094

5 жыл бұрын

@@liamoconnell1308 why

bruhhhhhh. this is at least a 4. no way is this a 3.5

B 1:13

@mikejakymiw1944

Жыл бұрын

D1 2:04

@mikejakymiw1944

Жыл бұрын

Waltz f 4:40

@mikejakymiw1944

Жыл бұрын

Waltz end 5:30

*dies in first clarinet*

I hate first movement, cymbal doesn’t fit at all Rondo is fun tho