1:36 makes my hair stand up every time it's that good.

Playing this as part of our marching show this year!

I play this in my middle school band and I still get chills when I play it

It doesn’t look half as hard as I remember

Absolute masterpiece.

i got to play this piece freshman year on snare it was fun but i rushed so bad im depressed

This was the best piece of music I’ve ever played, even as a percussionist. The only time I’ve lost count because I was in awe of the composition. Having parts at just the right moments made me cry on stage at Steinmetz hall back in high school. Markowski top 5 composer

It is an absolute masterpiece. It moved me profoundly. Thank you!

I'm here for the flutter tonguing that trumpets get to do :D

true masterpiece, one of the only pieces that i've ever been 100% glad to play part 2

I got to play this piece for the Arizona 8th grade honor band it it was my favorite

Love this song but multiphonics have now become the plauge of the sax section at school

Played this piece once as first clarinet, I literally cried while playing it in concert.

We’re marching this piece this year, wish me luck on 2nd trumpet 😁

I remember playing the is in 2023 for a honor band that went to carnigie hall I played alto then and this brings so many memories this was my favorite song I’m now a bari player but I loved it

I was in middle school when i played this song

The flute part is so awesome I'm so excited to play this for Summer Honors Band😁

My high school's wind symphony played this in my last concert EVER 😭. I was in the lower band, the concert band, all 4 years. We only had two bands (not including the marching band, that i also played in) because we were a somewhat small school. I miss band SO much! I play the flute. Go flutes! Band was my niche!

Would you consider writing a percussion ensemble piece for a highschool level group?

My best friend plays this song and she plays the flute and so does I it's rlly good!

Such an epic band song

0:54 honestly is my fav part the trumpets are epic

What software do you use to write these down?

Same torture as Quotour 1964 but slightly easier!

Amazing song! Played it last year

Me and my high school sr. concert band played this song in New York City. Practicing and working up to that moment was difficult; we put in countless hours of work in order to perform in America. We were so close to meeting Michael in person due to friend connections, but unfortunate we couldn't. Still, very thankful. ❤

Playing this as part of my marching show

Bro. I am the great grandchild of Dallas Teat(the guy who plays Ernie) and you outdid yourself man!

We are playing this for movement 2 of our band next year!

Elixir (2012)

Played this at UWM for UWAY, thank you for this wonderful music

1:08-1:20

*Aggressive fart* Brought to you by me… the band director.

I play bari sax

played this for UIL as 3rd clarinet. although this piece was genuinely mentally torturing, i adore this piece so much and I’ll miss it 😭

Played this in all county band, and absolutely loved it!

Just played this at a concert as a 2nd trumpet. It’s a very cool piece I will remember it forever

i'm a baritone and this is my first year of high school band favv song!!

If sound like the Batman theme😭

THE QUAH LOVES YOU MICHAEL

Man.. I love playing the flute as a very complex background sound and this is why.

My band had an amazing trombone and horn section for this so this was awesome

0:11 - 0:36 made me piss

And I was the best euphonium player😢

I played this in middle school🙉

We are playing this for band 🙏

I love video scores, but I miss the synth version. Any way we could get that back?

It hit me today that he was 27 years old when at least this video came out and he said he made it around when he was this age. This is super neat because in the description for this song (it might be called the composer notes or something idk) apparently when you’re 27 Saturn returns to the place where it was when you were born and this is often a time of self reflection. I wish I could have asked more about this very fascinating piece but I’ve heard it has a sad back story so I felt bad. 🫠

That senior clarinet girl was so chill

Michael Markowski came to my school and helped us with this song today (March 23 2024) such a cool experience. He had us play it way faster then we had been and it was so neat to finally do that. He asked what felt different about it, I didn’t get to answer but I wanted to say it didn’t feel like I was playing 120 and the other sections were playing 120 but now it was like we’re all just playing together by instinct and not thinking about it since it was so fast becausethere was no time to think, just play and feel the music. I also wanted to ask more about Saturn Returns because we played it last year but I felt bad because I knew it would all lead back to him saying how it was a break up song and I didn’t want to have him say that.