The University of Michigan Symphony Band is a leader of the wind band movement in America. Through recordings and performances in prestigious venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts, and La Scala, the UM Symphony Band is known for its professional quality of performance and keen sense of "trailblazing" in building repertoire.
Under the baton of Michael Haithcock since the fall of 2001, the Symphony Band has won praise from a wide range of audiences, composers, and critics. Reviews of recordings on the Equilibrium label have hailed the band's "breathtaking precision" as well as its "detailed, polished, and expressive phrasing." Critics have also praised the band's "organ-like sound quality as something to savor." Professional standards of performance combined with the highest artistic standard in repertoire is the hallmark of the University of Michigan Symphony Band.
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I need the score please
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Just an amazing performance of a very intricate and complicated piece of music.
I just bought the score to this to study. This maybe one of the best symphonies written for wind band. BRAVO!
Li’s website claims that this is a 2020 composition rather than a 2019 one.
Not many moments with the opportunity for the bassoonist to relax... You've got to have an embouchure like iron for this interesting piece! Respect!
See also "Variations on a College Song", also by Bilik. Quite a story, and a 51-year gap between performances.
Well I see the Colonel from the President's Own has found a new home. I always like the way he interprets Holst and Grainger, Sousa, too. . I don't what his new title is But I wish him all the best taking the Michigan Symphonic Band to new heights in their performances.
I see Colonel Fettig is carrying the President's Own Traditions to the Michigan Band when Playing a Sousa march. I think that is a great thing. Being a former Clarinetist I am sure he will make the bands clarinet section even stronger than it is now.
Its great to see the former Colonel of the President's Own conducting again. Here he is bringing out the best again only this time it is the Great University of Michigan Symphonic Wind Band. From the sound of this performance the future is bright for all participating.
Beautiful composition, performed magnificently.
great
What a fabulous transcription and performance.
Well done, band! A fan of Jason Fettig from his Marine Band days. A pleasure to see him in person at the UW Milwaukee Conducting Symposium one month ago.
That is incredibly good. Williams's best score by a long shot.
Eb solo🤩 bravo!
WOW, that opening chord...my middle school band couldn't play it that well. impressive craftsmanship! Semper FI!
One of John Williams' best film scores. This is an enjoyable and well scored arrangement.
Not an easy piece to pull off, and one of Williams' best by far
I was fortunate to have played under the direction of Robert R. in the East Shore Honors Band [in the thumb area of Michigan] in 1990, my senior year of high school.
Dang, that's fine playing. The cat on bass saxophone at the end is an artist. Certainly a very different interpretation of the piece. I can't remember a performance outside of Don Wilcox doing it that had so much inner detail brought to the fore.
Terrific! The band is so versatile, doing a wonderful job of accompaniment!
To the manor born....
I grew up in Enon Valley. So, I've been to Meadville, a kind of mythical place for its history as an energy center. I knew that Bob Reynolds was from there. Nice piece. I had not heard it before.
Beautiful piece! Well done!
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Atrocious audio reproduction. A significant part of this performance is almost inaudible.
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when i was younger in highschool i played this in marching band for a competition show in 2010
Noob here. I noticed this performance is slightly (5%?) faster than the one 5 years ago conducted by Haithcock. Is it because this is an edited version in 1984? Very interesting that there are so many small changes but together, they have changed the picture.
Might just be the conductor, not everyone can go at exactly the same tempo. Like how 2 pro musicians have different styles and sounds, 2 conductors will have different tempos and techniques. Even the same conductor years later will be different. I feel the only way 2 performances will have the same tempo will really only be with a met. Like my style has a lot of excitement and/or flow (depending on the setting) to it, this I’d go at slightly faster or slower tempos than this one. Plus I might just have a stylistic choice to have the tempo at a slightly different place, just a ton of the art to it. Hope I explained this somewhat well lol.
You could compare this version with the marine band version conducted by the same director
The clarinet solo in movement 2 was played so well I'm playing this for band too
bravo!
I knew a guy that would blow the french horn solo part to smithereens. It was phenomenal.
Great piece and incredible artistry!
wonderful performance, but would’ve loved if the trumpet fall at 4:19 was more apparent, or there at all. it’s a phenomenal sound effect, sucks that it was barely audible at all :(
What an amazing performance, really exceptional! Thanks for playing and uploading (There's a bracket missing in the title (&7:56))
I was there ^/^
that vibrato at 7:26 is so beautiful
It's pretty neat that they're actually using the bass oboe.
Many wonderful memories of HRR rehearsing this
My man
Love it!
It's a shame the UM Symphony Band is considerably smaller now than even a few years ago.
The band is not actually smaller than it ever has been. What you are noticing is that Haithcock and Fettig have chosen to use "wind ensemble" orchestration for many pieces, and more frequently, in the past couple of years, rather than "full band." This is not uncommon....it's basically one to a part (unless greater numbers are needed in some sections). This is how the Eastman Wind Ensemble is set up. The numbers for the band are the same now. The parts and assignments are decided by the director with input from the applied faculty members of each instrument.
this is not the full ensemble :)
It isn’t. But they’re much more flexible-using different-sized groups for each piece.
personnel change depending on repertoire
16 bars without a breath. That first breath at 16 was magical. Go Blue
I don't think you can truly appreciate this piece until you've played it
nice
Greatness on the podium. Bravo.
It is SO SO SO SAD that Mr. Copland's wonderful pieces don't get performed as often as they should be... Great performance!!!