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Okay in Grade 5 band we did Anasazi and When the Rhinos Do Th rhuma in the rain, they were cool but they were insanely easy

In the Grade 6 Band:

Soldiers Procession and Sword Dance - Bob Margolis I think

Three Face of Kilamanjaro, that was amazing!

In grade 7:

Samba Caliente, that was the most amazing song I've ever played on flute.

Ramsgate March, I was supposed to have a fun solo, I was the youngest flute player and the only one who COULD play it.

And Red Balloon. Eww, that was bad

This year (I'm only 14)

British Masters Suite - That was okay, nothing special

Mission: Impossible.. well we were SUPPOSEd to do it but it was too hard for our stupid crappy band.

Petty Harbour Bait Skiff... (I'm a Newfie, it's a kind of local song)

Aztlàn- This is completely AMAZING! I loved it, unfortunately, I had no solo.

We did Samba Caliente and Ramsgate March again this year, and the whole section played the solo. I was rotted.

I'm getting in two other bands soon so I'll obviously play way more interesting songs sooner or later..

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wow, there's so many pieces... some of my favorites

1. Where Never Lark Nor Eagle Flew - James Curnow

---Wicked French horn counter melody, but really fun to play.

2. Watchman, Tell us of the Night - Mark Camphouse

--- played this one in All-state, incredible music.

3. Lord of the Rings - Johann De Meij

--- cool piece, and I even grew to like the soprano sax solo

so many others, I don't remember the composers for most of them though.

Masada, Exultate, O Magnum Mysterium come to mind.

Oh and looking back, I have to agree that Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed is incredible.

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Some pieces we played in high school:

Ticheli's Toccata

Ticheli's Shenendoah

Holst's First and Second Suites for Military Band

Holsinger's Havendance

Holsinger's Liturgical Dances

Mambo Furioso

Hazo's Ride

Anderson's Bugeler's Holiday

Anderson's Sleigh Ride

Anderson's Fiddle-Faddle

Reed's Hounds of Spring

Bernstien's Overture to Candide

Scenes from the Lourve

Whitacre's Ghost Train

Whitacre's October

Suite of Old American Dances

Star Wars Medley

Finale from Dvorak's 9th Symphony

Smith's Inferno from the Divine Comedy Suite

Chance's Incantation and Dance

Chance's Variations on a Korean Folksong

Shostakovich's Galop

Lincolnshire Posy (wretched piece, in my opinion)

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'Equus' by Eric Whitacre is the BEST PIECE EVER WRITTEN!!!!!!!!!!

If you haven't heard it, you ought to be ashamed of yourself...

My band played an arrangement of it, but it was mostly the same, and kept the same level of COOLNESS!

... :happy: Coolness, by Walter Beasley, is another good song...but it's jazz...heh....

~Kal

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Holst: Both band suites

Chance: Incantation and Dance

Grainger: County Derry, Shepherd's Hey, Sussex Mummer's Carol, Gumsucker's March

Sousa: Marches: Fairest of the Fair, Hands Across the Sea, Liberty Bell

And others.

Grainger wrote a piece about Co. Derry? :) That's the county directly north of me.

I second the Holst nomination. Playing 2nd Suite at the moment.

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