Concert Season Programs

[TRtrumpet]

Anyone ever heard Overture for a new Age? I think that's what it's called. Played it at region... it was really awesome. October is too.

 

Our school is playing a bunch of cheesy, easy, lame music. Eh. Small schools (that have people that don't care) suck.

[borchnork]

our 2nd band's uil program is:

 

El Capitan March

Australia Back Country Tune (I think that's the title... it's a Grainger piece...)

2nd Suite in F

 

I think top band is going to be doing all of Lincolnshire Possie (spelling?)

[ClaireAnnette07]

I think it's called Lincolnshire Posey...I could be wrong, though

 

Anyway, I miss concert band! I was listening to the 2nd movement of "Second Suite in F" and wanted to cry because I played the clarinet solo as a sophomore. I hope I made a spot in the UT Wind Symphony, but I bombed my audtion and I heard how badly I played, so I probably didn't. Ugh.

[titancoaster]

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Anyone know what other contests there are for concert bands that aren't competing in the honor band competition this year? My director has been talking about this Texas State Wind Ensemble contest thing. I've never heard of it and I can't find anything about it online, though.

We did that thingy last year, its pretty cool, but nothing major. You preform your concert program (we did our UIL program) in the UT Bates Recital Hall and then get an hour clinic over the music, and as a requirement of going, you must listen to two other bands. Not too many bands participated (us and Vista were the only 4A last year) but it is cool to play in Bates, and last year the whole thing was on a live stream over the internet.

[Fata1]

  titancoaster said:

We did that thingy last year, its pretty cool, but nothing major. You preform your concert program (we did our UIL program) in the UT Bates Recital Hall and then get an hour clinic over the music, and as a requirement of going, you must listen to two other bands. Not too many bands participated (us and Vista were the only 4A last year) but it is cool to play in Bates, and last year the whole thing was on a live stream over the internet.

Bleh, I figured it was something like that. Oh well, contests are fun nonetheless. I just wish there was a major competition for concert season other than the TMEA honor band that you can only participate in every other year.

[borchnork]

isn't there a BOA concert season contest?

[barisaxy08]

ok i got it now

 

Westfield's Symphonic Band will be playing:

 

Redline Tango

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

(and a march)

 

Westfield's Concert Band will be playing:

 

Canzona

Circus Days

Vesivuis

 

this will definitely be a concert season to work thru

[ftwdrummer]

Our band director is fluctuating for what to do with the wind ensemble. First we were going to do Lincolnshire Posy and Rocky Point Holiday...then we were going to do Lincolnshire and something else...now we've got a bunch of ideas thrown in, centering around whether we do Redline Tango OR Lincolnshire OR both.

 

The band voted (sans percussion, because pit meets during Wind Ensemble's period, and I'm the only person who's both in pit AND wind ensemble), by a score of 18 to 17, to do Redline if we had to choose (I was the deciding vote)...the rest of the percussion guys voted Redline as well...so probably definitely doing Redline.

[itsstephenyo]

Wow, Westfield's concert bands play some really hard stuff. That symphonic band repertoire is sick.

 

Barisaxy, is that Canzona composed by Peter Mennin?

[barisaxy08]

  itsstephenyo said:

Wow, Westfield's concert bands play some really hard stuff. That symphonic band repertoire is sick.

 

Barisaxy, is that Canzona composed by Peter Mennin?

 

yup...i was thinking his name was "george gennin" for some odd reason but yeah...that's it.

[bossman]

i just got word that we will also perform Turbine by Mackey as a "bonus" selection!

[ClarinetGlissandoInBlue]

right now, we might be playing "Watchman Tell Us of the Night" by Camphouse. this will be either instead of "Molly on the Shore" (which we'd better play at some point in time this year, if it be the spring concert) or along with Molly.

 

Wouldn't that be something? Performing BOTH Watchman and Molly. haha.

[bbcheez]

for our christmas concert we're doing

 

the glory of the yankee navy by sousa

blue shades by ticheli

and of course....sleigh ride.

 

for our next concert we're playing bagatelles for band, (i think) sleep, and a pretty new one that i think is called the red machine. but i might have heard wrong. idk.

[Donezo]

Poteet's holiday concert was last night, at which they performed four pieces from their 2008 honor band program:

"Commando March," Samuel Barber

"Fiesta del Pacifico," Roger Nixon

"Shadow Rituals," Michael Markowski (new to the the UIL Prescribed Music List this year)

"Shortcut Home," Dana Wilson (also new to the PML)

 

In February, they will also be performing John Mackey's "Strange Humors" and 2-3 other pieces. I'll post what they are when I find out.

 

P.S.: Does anyone know what Marcus is playing at Midwest? I've been wondering about that for a couple of days...

Edited December 14, 2007 by Donezo

[borchnork]

no clue, but our director's going. It'll be really cool for them, they totally deserve it.

 

The Centennial Symphony Orchestra is playing Rhapsody in Blue, Nimrod, and Hoedown for their spring concert. EVERYBODY IN THE dALLAS Ft. WORTh AREa IS INVITED!

[TRtrumpet]

I love Nimrod.

 

 

Everyone plays sleigh ride, lol.

[dtxtrmpt]

for our christmas concert tomorow top band is playing

sleigh ride

christmas with mozart

a christmas festival

a stocking full of composers

 

second band is playing

we three kings- epic fantasy

trombones on the housetop

at christmas time

 

and im playing with both bands... it should be fun....

[Fata1]

  borchnork said:

no clue, but our director's going. It'll be really cool for them, they totally deserve it.

 

The Centennial Symphony Orchestra is playing Rhapsody in Blue, Nimrod, and Hoedown for their spring concert. EVERYBODY IN THE dALLAS Ft. WORTh AREa IS INVITED!

Nimrod is amazing. I loved playing Enigma Variations last year. Rhapsody in Blue is another of my favorite pieces. I might have to go to that concert.

[borchnork]

  dtxtrmpt said:

for our christmas concert tomorow top band is playing

sleigh ride

christmas with mozart

a christmas festival

a stocking full of composers

 

second band is playing

we three kings- epic fantasy

trombones on the housetop

at christmas time

 

and im playing with both bands... it should be fun....

 

 

A Christmas with Mozart and A Stocking full of Composers sounds like very interesting songs. What are they like?

[Dontforgettobreathe]

Easter Monday on the White House Lawn - Sousa

Passacaglia - Bach

Banddancing - Jack Stamp

[dtxtrmpt]

  borchnork said:

A Christmas with Mozart and A Stocking full of Composers sounds like very interesting songs. What are they like?

 

Christmas with Mozart is my favorite out of all i got to play. it has lots of different christmas tunes and excerpts from many of Mozarts pieces. A stocking full of composers is a lot of different christmas songs. it has like 40 different songs. they were both given to our band director by the composer, Julie Giroux, as christmas gifts. She is a great composer. She also wrote No Finer Calling, which our top band played last year for our honor band recording.

[takigan]

Julie Giroux IS a great composer. I played Circus Franticus by Giroux last year in the Blinn College Wind Ensemble.....it was my favorite piece we did that year.

 

  urkadrums said:

we played Tempered Steel, 1st Suite (i think it's in Eb, don't know the whole name), Stille Nacht (by Mannheim Steamroller), and of course, Sleigh Ride lol.

 

ARG! You played Tempered Steel!!

 

You know how many times I asked Aguillon if we could do that piece back when I was there? The last time Gtown did it was in 2000 (we were 5A Honor Band finalists that year), I was in 8th grade and heard the concert with it and thought it was the most awesome piece EVER!! (I still do, and I've heard a lot). Gary Wylie arranged it for marching band that Fall (2000-my freshman year) and we took it all the way to state (got slaughtered--dead last, but at least we went).....man, I love that piece!

 

lol, anyway since I'm already here might as well do this. Here's what we did in the Sam Houston State Wind Ensemble this Fall:

 

Variants on a Mediaeval Tune - Dello Joio

Renaissance [something] - Susato

Lincolnshire Posy - Grainger

Strange Humours - Mackey

Fanfare for the Common Man - Copland

Florentiner March - [forgot the composer]

Fanfare [something] - Gabrielli

[some other piece] - Foss

[another piece] - Tower

[and another piece] - Fisher Tull

 

lol....our conductor would never call out the names of our pieces in rehearsal....he would always call them out by composer (except Florentiner, probably because it was a march, and the only march we played that semester), and we always referred to them as such among each other, so I never really learned the titles, haha.

Edited December 17, 2007 by takigan

[TRtrumpet]

Florentiner March was pretty fun. We played it at region.

[b_sax_agent]

we got two of our UIL/midwest pieces today.

 

They are

 

Battle of Shiloh march

 

Till Eulenspiegel

[borchnork]

  Dontforgettobreathe said:

Easter Monday on the White House Lawn - Sousa

Passacaglia - Bach

Banddancing - Jack Stamp

 

I think I'm in love with this program.

 

Stamp is AMAZING.

Bach is the God of composers

and

Easter Monday is my favorite march of all time!