Favorite Pieces

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Favorite Pieces
Topic Started: Oct 15 2008, 06:16 PM (2,874 Views)
clarinetdude124	Oct 15 2008, 06:16 PM Post #1
UltraVeteran Posts: 316 Group: Contributor Member #570 Joined: September 27, 2006	Just wondering what some of your favorite pieces are, though if you're like me, it varies somewhat often. My favorite recent piece has been "Bells for Stokowski" by Michael Daugherty. His sax quartet writing is beautiful, I love that he brings Bach into it, and the ending is great.



mortonbabs23	Oct 15 2008, 08:02 PM Post #2
Member Posts: 34 Group: Member Member #662 Joined: November 5, 2006	we very briefly looked at "Blue Shades" by Ticheli last year and i loved it. I also am a big fan of Grainger's "Children's March".
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clarinetdude124	Oct 15 2008, 08:41 PM Post #3
UltraVeteran Posts: 316 Group: Contributor Member #570 Joined: September 27, 2006	Quote: we very briefly looked at "Blue Shades" by Ticheli last year and i loved it. I also am a big fan of Grainger's "Children's March". Ah yes, I've had the privilege of playing both those pieces (including the clarinet solo in Blue Shades )



dbalash	Oct 15 2008, 08:51 PM Post #4
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trumpetking5	Oct 15 2008, 09:33 PM Post #5
IL Marching Admin/Webmaster Posts: 535 Group: Admin Member #28 Joined: October 1, 2004	A few of my favorite pieces I played in high school were: Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young Where Lark or Eagle Never Flew by James Curnow Hobbits by Johan De Meij (although we never performed this...we had it in our books at one point my senior year. The entire LotR symphony by De Meij is AWESOME!!)
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MHSmarchingbari90	Oct 15 2008, 09:37 PM Post #6
Beta Plus Posts: 248 Group: Member Member #289 Joined: October 5, 2005	I will always be partial to Fantasia in G, The Hounds of Spring, and Armenian Dances. They were the first pieces that really forced me to come into my own as a musician. I remember staying after band class nearly every day for like ten-fifteen minutes practicing Armenian because I just couldn't play it XD
	MORTON HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BRASSLINE BARITONE 2005- Anasazi Reflections: The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms 2006- Famous Daves: The Music of Dave Matthews, David Holsinger, and Dave Brubeck 2007- Ex Atrum: Out of the Dark 2008- A.F. 632: Brave New World ________ "You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!"


Soybomb12	Oct 15 2008, 09:40 PM Post #7
SuperVeteran Posts: 196 Group: Member Member #1,389 Joined: August 29, 2008	Sanctuary- Frank Ticheli Blessings- Sam Hazo Strange Humors- John Mackey Carmina Burana- Carl Orf Lux Aurumque- Eric Whitacre American Faces- David R. Holsinger these are just the ones that I've actualy played, if I listed all my favs the list would never end
	"Life's not a Destination, it's a Journey" Normal West High School 2005-Metroplex (Sousaphone) 2006-Japanese Fantasy (Trumpet) 2007-H20 (Euphonium) 2008-Paris Sketches (Euphonium) Illinois State Big Red Marching Machine 2009-Elton John, Top Gun, Bon Jovi (Baritone)


clarinetdude124	Oct 15 2008, 09:58 PM Post #8
UltraVeteran Posts: 316 Group: Contributor Member #570 Joined: September 27, 2006	Quote: I will always be partial to Fantasia in G, The Hounds of Spring, and Armenian Dances. Do you mean the Timothy Mahr Fantasia or the Bach Fantasia transcribed by Goldman? And who doesn't love Alfred Reed (I've had the pleasure of playing both Armenians and Praise Jerusalem!)



douna	Oct 16 2008, 11:12 AM Post #9
Veteran Posts: 77 Group: Member Member #1,424 Joined: September 13, 2008	Quote: Lux Aurumque- Eric Whitacre I love Lux Aurumque!!!!!!!!! I really hope that we get to play it in concert band this year. Eric Whitacre is amazing! A favorite of mine from middle school was Rites of Tamburo by Robert W. Smith and The Great Locamotive Chase (I played the four mallet part :D). Last year we played Holst's Suite in Eb and I liked it a lot.
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SalemHSband	Oct 16 2008, 11:59 AM Post #10
Member Posts: 39 Group: Educators Member #1,284 Joined: July 19, 2008	Too many to choose from - In random order: Heroes, Lost and Fallen - David Gillingham Apocolyptic Dreams - Gillingham Concertino for 4 Percussion and Wind Ensemble - Gillingham Symphony in Bb - Paul Hindemith March from Symphonic Metamorphasis - Hindemith Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger Childrens March - Grainger Molly on the Shore - Grainger Masquerade - Vincent Persechetti Divertimento - Persichetti Rocky Point Holiday - Ron Nelson 3 Japanese Dances - Bernard Rogers La Fiesta Mexicana - H. Owen Reed Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed Bullets and Bayonetts - J.P. Sousa Symphony #2 - David Maslanka Dionysiaques - Florent Schmitt



clarinetdude124	Oct 16 2008, 12:13 PM Post #11
UltraVeteran Posts: 316 Group: Contributor Member #570 Joined: September 27, 2006	Quote: Heroes, Lost and Fallen - David Gillingham Apocolyptic Dreams - Gillingham Concertino for 4 Percussion and Wind Ensemble - Gillingham If you like Gillingham that much, you should get in touch with Kurt Gros from Warren Township, I don't think there's a bigger fan than him. If you've heard Supercell alto sax solo with percussion, he's the sax player it was written for. Also, Warren will be playing his new Symphony No. 2 "Genesis" (#1 for Revelation, #2 for Genesis, which I thought was pretty cool) at the IMEA conference this January. Quote: Symphony #2 - David Maslanka I do like #2, but I think my favorite of his has got to be Symphony #4 (especially the part where the clarinets only play on the mouthpiece and barrel ).



NNHSax	Oct 16 2008, 04:38 PM Post #12
Silents Posts: 169 Group: Member Member #1,472 Joined: September 27, 2008	Anything by Frank Ticheli or Frank Erickson and American River Songs is fun and Some John Williams Arrangements for concert band are fun to play in my opinion Its fun to play music that you hear and emeorize in your head from movies. I dont play much hard music because I have never auditioned for a higher band... So sorry if the music is like is Newbie.
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Soybomb12	Oct 16 2008, 04:51 PM Post #13
SuperVeteran Posts: 196 Group: Member Member #1,389 Joined: August 29, 2008	clarinetdude124 Oct 15 2008, 09:58 PM And who doesn't love Alfred Reed (I've had the pleasure of playing both Armenians and Praise Jerusalem!) Love that piece. I'd like to do a whole marching show with just that song if and when I become a band director.
	"Life's not a Destination, it's a Journey" Normal West High School 2005-Metroplex (Sousaphone) 2006-Japanese Fantasy (Trumpet) 2007-H20 (Euphonium) 2008-Paris Sketches (Euphonium) Illinois State Big Red Marching Machine 2009-Elton John, Top Gun, Bon Jovi (Baritone)


MHSmarchingbari90	Oct 16 2008, 06:32 PM Post #14
Beta Plus Posts: 248 Group: Member Member #289 Joined: October 5, 2005	clarinetdude124 Oct 15 2008, 10:58 PM Quote: I will always be partial to Fantasia in G, The Hounds of Spring, and Armenian Dances. Do you mean the Timothy Mahr Fantasia or the Bach Fantasia transcribed by Goldman? And who doesn't love Alfred Reed (I've had the pleasure of playing both Armenians and Praise Jerusalem!) The Timothy Mahr one. And I'm pretty sure Alfred Reed was a total freaking genius lol. Armenian Dances has to be one of the coolest songs to hear and funnest to play.
	MORTON HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BRASSLINE BARITONE 2005- Anasazi Reflections: The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms 2006- Famous Daves: The Music of Dave Matthews, David Holsinger, and Dave Brubeck 2007- Ex Atrum: Out of the Dark 2008- A.F. 632: Brave New World ________ "You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!"


xoxSAXxox	Oct 16 2008, 07:50 PM Post #15
Rookie Posts: 24 Group: Member Member #1,541 Joined: October 11, 2008	wow i've played a lot of those songs or well we have attempted them right now we are practicing molly on the shore sanctuary masquerade for band i love the song vientos y tangos it's one of my fav.


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