June 15, 200619 yr 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..
June 27, 200619 yr 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.
June 27, 200619 yr 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)
July 20, 200619 yr '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
October 31, 200916 yr Claude T. Smith, Chorale and Allegro University of Kansas Symphonic Band - Chorale and Allegro - Free MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music
October 31, 200916 yr 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.
November 4, 200916 yr Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Persichetti: Divertimento for Band, Symphony No. 6, Masquerade... Copland: Emblems Schwantner: and the mountains rising nowhere Williams: English Folk Song Suite (of course) Most later pieces of Alfred Reed and James Curnow
November 27, 200916 yr October by Eric Whitacre Beowulf by Francis McBeth Ride by Sam Hazo Haven't played, but read - An American Elegy - Franch Ticheli A Dakota Rhapsody - Mark Camphouse
November 27, 200916 yr 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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