It went okay

Wilco?

god not wilco

Unfortunately yes Wilco

I played this 11 years ago at a high school band festival too...don't remember doing two recordings or the audience crying though so it must not have been the same festival (or my memory just sucks lol).

It's actually even more in-depth than that! My wind ensemble director knows Paulson, the composer, and told us about this piece. To the best of my memory, it is actually the parent of a soldier, post-war, desperately looking for their child on the body-ridden battlefield. In the melody that keeps repeating throughout the piece, those last three notes are the parent saying, "Oh, my son," hoping to find him alive. Upon finding what I believe is a torn shirt that belonged to him, they come to the realization that he didn't make it. They let out a scream of agony, like you mentioned, and it is expressed through the ensemble. This is a very well-written piece, albeit the most upsetting one I have ever performed.

@@steamcaptain3256 oh my goodness I love that!!

If you play a film in your head of the scene LollyPopKiller describes as the music plays and always bear that theme in mind throughout, the piece makes a great deal more sense. My high school band performed this. Our performance didn't sound a thing close to this. Twas a bit beyond us at the time, I think.

N for Noah yes

It’s sure sounds like it unfortunately

Then you don't understand why it was created, this was one of my favorite pieces because the energy it gives off. Pieces like this aren't just "noise" and it's an art the way it's portrayed. Sorry I'm going on lol but listen to threnody for the victims of Hiroshima by pendereki. It's extremely remarkable

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm almost positive that this piece was made to illustrate the horrors of the Vietnam war. It's so dissonant because it's meant to be difficult to listen to. The massive raucous of instruments is the terror and confusion of the soldiers fighting in it. If you listen hard enough, you can almost imagine human screaming in the noise somewhere. And the random percussion cracks and overall noise is meant to be gunshots, explosions, and overall destruction. I don't blame you for thinking it sounds stupid at first. But when you know why it was written and what it's supposed to convey, it suddenly becomes sickeningly disturbing, as you can imagine the pain and anguish suffered by soldiers seeing their friends' limbs get blown off and knowing that their life could be stolen from them at any second. It's truly an awe-inspiring piece of music and I highly encourage you to listen to it at least one or two more times to try and get the full effect.

Thank you Natalie Stanley and Willian Green for your opinions! When I made this comment it was the first time I listened to this piece. I practiced some more after this but it didn’t really work and you two definitely understand that. However, I hadn’t actually played it with the band yet. Once the director explained it to me and we actually got the song working, it sounded cool! I understand your guys points now completely. I still think the song is really weird for an honor band concert😂 but I have new respect for it now. It completely makes sense for warriors of any war to slowly become insane form all the death and horrible things that have happened.

@@ethanyoung9011 awe I'm glad, it's definitely people expect to hear at a concert but moving when you understand it

My best guess and what I have heard from my teachers is more or less "don't worry too much about it. The conductor will tell you what they want."

Jorin Benson that's what I'm hoping, I've kind of given up on this

Lol we're playing it in CO all state this year too! I guess they use songs repeatedly... by any chance did you also play pas redouble

@@mrman5066 Me too! Guess I’ll see ya there

@@seajayfour yoo cool! See you there indeed! What instrument do you play? I'm a clarinet

I can agree. I has like 12 heart attacks from the jump scares

TKC 2000 Omg yes😂 Are you going too?

I was alto saxophone in a concert band.

nice

I played the tuba part and it was so fun

Hayden Robinson Whoa I was in that band too!

nightdoom what did you play???

Hayden Robinson trombone

nightdoom cool lol. i was the first chair alto sax

Hayden Robinson Last chair trombone :P

What would you make the definition of music?

+Spoodermen Pls well I admit I was wrong but I define music as something I enjoy playing as a musician and something that moves me. I wrote this at a bad time because I was required to play this at my schools annual concert at the end of the year and I was also required to play the flute solo at the beginning when in reality I don't like the flute (in my opinion). I wanted to play the piano and play the theme from castle in the sky but because I was forced to play this song I didn't get to play the piano this year and the piano is my passion.

+Spoodermen Pls and I don't really find this song to be sentimental because my band director threw it together last minute and the story that comes along with epinicion that came with the piece is that some soldiers or whatever after a war that scavenge the dead body's of their victims or something and they sing that while they do that and I don't understand how it's even humanly possible for a person to sing like that like what?

+Spoodermen Pls and by the way mr sorey who I mentioned in my last comment is my band director who I despise with a passion

Ik I'm two years late lol but if you really don't understand it, it's supposed to portray what I think is Vietnam or some war, the percussion hits symboling gunshots and explosions, the clatter of instrument voices symboling the terror and pain they had felt. It's more than just noise when you understand the meaning

Wugglesfindsjroll yes

Music

+Flux AMP Where was it? I played this too at one around the same time as you

+Alyssa Black Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Our parish honor band

some people clapped during my concert so at the end (and we counted) it took them 21 seconds to clap. it was so funny for the band but awkward for the audience

Lmao that's funny xD

+Izumi Gamer Normal people cant handle dissonance or chaos. It's funny too... cause I'd imagine this is incredibly harder to play that your average 'pleasant,' more harmonic, orderly piece.

Lot of noise,not pleasant