Concert Season Programs

[the_DRUM_MAJOR]

yes sarah, his office is on the 5th floor

[ClaireAnnette07]

ahh okay. Good to know lol..thanks Ralph. See ya in government tomorrow morning

[Fata1]

Apparently Aledo is playing Slavyanskaya, like us. Our director talked to their director at the TMEA convention and yesterday he said something about how we might do a large concert with Aledo's top band and our top band. It'd be interesting.

[JediSaxSolis]

So far, our Honor Band program consists of:

 

Fourth of July (march)

 

Lincolnshire Posey (highlight)

 

We're still sightreading to figure out our 3rd... it's possible we might play a Ticheli piece.

[ClaireAnnette07]

For our second concert in March (?), the UT Symphony is playing:

 

-March from "Symphonic Metamorphosis" (I have no idea if i spelled that right..)

-Blue Shades

 

That's all I know so far

Edited February 21, 2008 by ClaireAnnette07

[jordo2108]

for marching we did

"cityscapes" mixture of songs

07 uil state champs

 

for TMEA we played

commando march- barber

shadow rituals-markowski

concerto for percussion and winds-ziek

o mangum mysterium

rustic dance- grangier? <=== commisoned just for our band, world premire of the piece for band

shortcut home-wilson

strange humors- mackey

 

for uil were playing

commando march

fiesta del paffico- nixon

and i think were keeping strange in for our third peice

[borchnork]

we're still deciding for our music...

 

it's either:

 

1. Commando March: Barber

2. Je'La te (Spelling???)- Grantham, same guy who did Southern Harmony

3. Festive Overture- Shostakovich

 

OR

 

1. Commando March- Barber

2. Lincolnshire Posie- Grainger

3. Je La Te (again, sp?)- Grantham

 

 

It looks like we are going to do the second option, because that's what most of the kids are rooting for.

[jordo2108]

you will enjoy commando march its really good

[the terminator]

yeah, it's nice but still lincolnshire posy is a little risky but I'm sure u can pull it off.

As of right now, we are going

1. The Black Horse Troop March (sousa)

2. The Suite of Greek love songs (by some guy w/ an impossible last name)

3. Apollo Unleashed (ticheli)

 

everyone loves Apollo but if it's not pretty good by middle of next week he'll scratch it and pick something else, but for a group that's half freshman this w/o a doubt the hardest piece they have ever played much harder than the two Holsts, and to think this is still a Grade 4!!!

[ClaireAnnette07]

Our band director mentioned something to us about playing Lincolnshire Posey (Posy?) yesterday during class...I won't say anything for sure until I pick up my part in the music library lol

[borchnork]

well, we have gotten parts to Lincolnshire officially.

 

But he said it's still up in the air as to what exactly we are playing.

 

But Mvmt. 5 of Lincolnshire isn't normal... it's cool, but yah, kinda freaky playing in 2.5/4

[takigan]

SHSU Wind Ensemble concert at Woodlands: College Park HS last Thursday:

 

Fandangos - Sierra

Postcards - Ticheli

Were You There? - Lynch

La Fiesta Mexicana - Reed

March of the Belgian Parachuters - Leeman

 

3 'Grade 5' pieces, 60 minute program and we got all the music in mid-January so we only had 4 1/2 weeks to learn it (basically 11 2-hour rehearsals...we rehearse about half to 2/3s as often as a typical 5A band). When the band walked in to the dress rehearsal before the concert we had only ran through the 3rd movement of La Fiesta (which is a 20 minute long suite) 3 times. The ensemble had a good sound and held together, but there were an uncountable number of fracked notes and missed entrances....we had the ability to bring it together but our heads just weren't in the game for those 4 weeks. We're getting a new program on Monday and the next concert isn't until April so hopefully it'll be better then :/.

[borchnork]

I love Postcard!!! It's like my favorite Ticheli piece EVER!

[Fata1]

We're still not sure if we're playing Red Line Tango. We only have three horns in our top band so us three our covering four parts. We did this last year, too, and it wasn't too bad but the third horn may be failing a class. If she does, that would leave two of us to cover four parts and that's not happening. If we don't end up playing Red Line Tango, I'm not sure what we'll play. With only two horns, I'm not sure if we'd be able to play Four Scottish Dances which was kind like our back up piece.

[jordo2108]

if anyone would like to hear my band play strange humors (poteet high school)

go to john mackeys website

go to www.ostimusic.com

 

 

and then go to works and click strange humors

 

and were the recording for the website =]

 

check it out and let me know=]

[Dusty]

we are playing four scottish dances for full orchestra its fun

[ftwdrummer]

  borchnork said:

well, we have gotten parts to Lincolnshire officially.

 

But he said it's still up in the air as to what exactly we are playing.

 

But Mvmt. 5 of Lincolnshire isn't normal... it's cool, but yah, kinda freaky playing in 2.5/4

 

Yeah...when our band hit mvt. 5 about a month ago, a bunch of us spent a good five minutes during lunch complaining about it amongst ourselves, trying to find an answer to, "If it's 2.5/4, followed by 1.5/4, why not just make it a bloody 4/4 measure?"

 

Yeah, lunch with the band nerd knothole gang is awesome.

Edited February 26, 2008 by ftwdrummer

[the terminator]

wow our band hasn't hit that level yet, we're still doing high grade 4's and lower 5's

[jordo2108]

so now that tmea is over were playing

 

Semper Fidelis by Sousa

Fiesta Del Paffico by Nixon

Strange Humors- Mackey

 

for uil

 

im glad were playing fiesta i wish we could have done it for tmea as well but not enough time to get it in with the others

 

and we changed march's

 

but kept strange=]]]

 

and for some reason i cant stop listening to O magnum mysterium

[jordo2108]

actually our director said today were going to try out new marches so we might or might not play sempers

[JediSaxSolis]

Alright, here's our HB schedule... I'm fairly sure it's final:

 

1. Fourth of July (March)

 

2. Lincolnshire Posy (Highlight) -- Mvmt 5? I think Mvmt 3 is even more confusing

 

3. Ticheli's Symphony No. 2 for band (Mvmt 1: Shooting Stars and Mvmt 3: Apollo Unleashed)

 

 

 

We did play Postcard last year by Ticheli... and I can truthfully say I didn't like it one bit. I don't really care for his composition style that much. His percussive stuff is great, but overall the ensemble arrangement seems almost too contemporary for me.

[whitewing09]

i feel embarrassed... we play grade 3's

[aloneintherapy]

Yesterday my band played a concert which consisted of Shepard's Hey, Music for Prague 1968, and School for Scandal. For the rest of concert season I think we're getting rid of Shepard's Hey, but we're not sure what we're replacing it with yet.

[TRtrumpet]

  whitewing09 said:

i feel embarrassed... we play grade 3's

 

 

Lol, we play like grade 1's. Sometimes 2's... if we're lucky :\

[ftwdrummer]

We've finally finalized our program as:

Lincolnshire Posy -Grainger

Awayday -Gorb

Rolling Thunder

 

We're also having a concert a week from tonight, starting at 7 in our auditorium, if anyone in D/FW cares to come see us.