Fata1 Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 We were finally told what we're officially playing this year: March op. 99 - Prokofiev Symphony No. 3 Slavyanskaya - Kozhevnikov Redline Tango - John Mackey I'm just happy to play Redline Tango. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_sax_agent Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 I just wish I knew what our third piece was. We're doing Battle of Shiloh and Till Eulespiegel for midwest, but I don't know which Sinfonietta we're doing. Probably the one by Dahl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Donald Grantham's Southern Harmony? If so, the "Wonderous Love" movement from that piece is the BEST. Yeahh, it's Donald Grantham's piece. In fact, I think he's a faculty member at UT...at least, that's what I hear. Nonetheless, I'm excited we get to play it. I could do without the 4th movement though, since I have 6 sharps in one point of the 4th movement. yeah, I know lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) Our next concert is pretty cool. Lotsa fast paced music. And I now hafta second my friend Wang when he says that he hates how Hindemith skips notes randomly in his runs. The triplets in Mvmt 2 of "A Symphonic Metamorphosis" are NOT fun! Edited January 23, 2008 by borchnork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicaidnow Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 the varsity band of Connally is playing Trittico by Nelhybel Sinfonians and im thinkin a ballad by Whittaker but the last piece isnt final yet were gonna sight read it sometime this week im think My band played Trittico last year, and it was quite hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicaidnow Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 i play french horn in the honor band at Cedar Park and we're playing Enigma Variations Sketches on a Tudor Plsam and Trooper's Tribunal all in all a very short 45! min. program. I CAN'T wait for our spring concert pardon my spelling but i never was very good at it. I would also like to point out that every traditional march has all the horn parts on upbeats. Thats why i hate almost every march im forced to play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fata1 Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 i play french horn in the honor band at Cedar Park and we're playing Enigma Variations Sketches on a Tudor Plsam and Trooper's Tribunal all in all a very short 45! min. program. I CAN'T wait for our spring concert pardon my spelling but i never was very good at it. I would also like to point out that every traditional march has all the horn parts on upbeats. Thats why i hate almost every march im forced to play We played Enigma last year. It brought our program to about 40 minutes or something like that. It's an amazing piece, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 I would also like to point out that every traditional march has all the horn partson upbeats. Thats why i hate almost every march im forced to play That's why the greatest marches aren't American marches, their Latin marches. They actually have interesting parts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesnareguy Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Vientos y Tangos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_sax_agent Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 El Relicario. I loved that piece.... There is a march that my sister played that wasn't a "march".... The whole insturmentation was backwards. Like the Tubas and low reeds had the melodies while the trumpets and flutes played the down and up beats....it was weird. it sounded cool though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicaidnow Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 That's why the greatest marches aren't American marches, their Latin marches. They actually have interesting parts! If only we played those marches We play cool marches, just not ones where I have interesting parts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 That's why the greatest marches aren't American marches, their Latin marches. They actually have interesting parts! Lol, I agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy08 Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 El Relicario. I loved that piece.... There is a march that my sister played that wasn't a "march".... The whole insturmentation was backwards. Like the Tubas and low reeds had the melodies while the trumpets and flutes played the down and up beats....it was weird. it sounded cool though Lol that's how it should be. We're playing Pride of the Wolverines for our march and for once bassoons have the melody, but I dont like how it sounds. Later we have the counter and we hold high f a bunch which isn't hard in itself but after a while it makes me dizzy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capncrunk Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 (edited) UT's Symphony band is playing these pieces for our Feb. 25 concert: British Eighth March Canzona Prelude in the Dorian Mode Southern Harmony (yowza) My band is also playing a couple of other pieces that I'm not in...I'm not totally sure what they are though we sightread southern harmony yesterday.. i freaking love it. we might play it for UIL but im not sure yet. Edited January 26, 2008 by capncrunk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 so final order and everything for our mid-winter concert is: National Emblem March A Symphonic Metamorphosis Irish Tune from County Derry Festive Overture. That's nearly 45 minutes of music for just ONE of our three bands... it's going to be one insanely long concert in February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftwdrummer Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Additional info...not exactly on topic, but sorta... Paschal's Varsity Orchestra is playing: Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) -Elgar Allegro from Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) -Schubert The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) -Mussorgsky All of them are sounding awesome so far (our third rehearsal was this past Thursday)...apart from trying to cover four parts at once for "Kiev" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Additional info...not exactly on topic, but sorta... Paschal's Varsity Orchestra is playing: Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) -Elgar Allegro from Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) -Schubert The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) -Mussorgsky All of them are sounding awesome so far (our third rehearsal was this past Thursday)...apart from trying to cover four parts at once for "Kiev" Those a large pieces to undertake! GOOD LUCK! didn't somebody arrange an ending to Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warfact Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Right now we've been reading: "March" from Symphonic Metamorphosis Molly on the Shore Slavyanskaya (Symphony No. 3) But the past two days we started to read Rolling Thunder(I have fun with this on trombone lol) so we may replace the March with this for contest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Why would you EVER want to replace the march from "A Symphonic Metamorphosis"???? When we played our full run through of it today, it was giving me chills. I LOVE THAT PIECE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fata1 Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Why would you EVER want to replace the march from "A Symphonic Metamorphosis"???? When we played our full run through of it today, it was giving me chills. I LOVE THAT PIECE! Yeah, I agree. I haven't played yet but I can't wait until next year's concert season just for that movement of Symphonic Metamorphosis. Maybe it's cause I'll be first horn next year and the horn parts in the March are freaking awesome. On a side note, we got Red Line Tango. The piece changes time signature almost every measure or every other measure. It's crazy. But the soprano solo sounds so cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warfact Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Why would you EVER want to replace the march from "A Symphonic Metamorphosis"???? When we played our full run through of it today, it was giving me chills. I LOVE THAT PIECE! Well, I think our director wants to feature our trombone section because 4/5 of us went to area and 2 made state. The other two(including myself) were only 1 and 2 away from making state. So, I think ultimately he wants to feature our section and Rolling Thunder seems like the likely choice for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_sax_agent Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Our third piece is Sinfonietta by Ingolf Dahl. I love that piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftwdrummer Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Interesting...our band is doing Rolling Thunder as well (if he ever gets us the parts). In other news, two people (including me) are completely passed off on Lincolnshire Posy, and I'm passed off up to meas. 102 in Awayday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fata1 Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Well, I think our director wants to feature our trombone section because 4/5 of us went to area and 2 made state. The other two(including myself) were only 1 and 2 away from making state. So, I think ultimately he wants to feature our section and Rolling Thunder seems like the likely choice for that. Rolling Thunder is a good piece and with a trombone section as good as that, you all will make it sound great. On a somewhat related note, we have a recording of Rolling Thunder in which our head band director conducted and our assistant band director played solo bass clarinet with the trombones. He played the recording about a month ago and it was the first time I found out that our assistant band director was in band under the conduction of our head band director in high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Well, I think our director wants to feature our trombone section because 4/5 of us went to area and 2 made state. The other two(including myself) were only 1 and 2 away from making state. So, I think ultimately he wants to feature our section and Rolling Thunder seems like the likely choice for that. Oh ok! That makes sense. Always good to feature a strong section! I haven't heard Rolling Thunder though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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