I’m wearing the bright orange uniform 20 seats in of the back row of clarinets. I’m fairly sure I may have been the nudge to change from “concert uniform” to “concert Blacks” the following year. Also, the first chair trumpet player of 2nd trumpets was a good friend of mine in college. Sadly, he passed a year and half from earning his music education degree. He would’ve been an amazing teacher.

What a really good recording! Luckily, I was able to sight read this in school on french horn, symphonic band (CSUF)...🍀 Since graduation, I live here in Albuquerque NM with my parents for now and I could swear the small grandfather clock in one of the rooms is inspired of or relative to this piece by Michael Colgrass! Everytime I hear it go off on the hour, I get excited about having been apart of a instrumental music group in college!!! #joy 🎶🎵

Only idiots make stupid youtube videos like this.

Very interesting piece. Although when we had an attempt in band in high school it made me wonder if the band master had forgotten we had a range of skills levels in the woodwinds.

Breathtaking beautiful!

💃dont mind me boppin to the beat!

I played this too. Oh, wait! No I didn’t!

P. S the best version yet in my opinion! Bravo again!!!!! 👍 😁

Bravo!!!! 👍

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Holy, shit I’m in that.

We performed that with the Wind Ensemble back when he wrote that with the man himself. Jack Minor Senior Public School in Scarborough, Ontario about 870 years ago. Donald worked with us until we got it right and got to go to Ottawa and play it for the Prime Minister of Canada (who wasn't there) so we got Joe Clark instead. :)

I looked up this song because we were playing this in my own all state band. Funny to find a recording of it at an all state band from seven years ago with the same conductor as I had. Haha

Very good. I've heard it a thousand times and have played it a thousand times. Good job.

Never forget! #TubasRepresent

É um trabalho muito rico ! Correspondencia multipla de trilhas sonora ...

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Can't hear horn

This is my favorite John Mackey Piece of all time...simply beautiful

I played this two weeks ago and Jack Stamp conducted us too

We're playing this in band, love it. And totally understand the motives of the composer :P

I was so excited to search for this song and come to find the first result is a recording I played in! :) Good times.

Real music right here tbh

very well done on the solo. I've heard this many times and even the best high school trumpet soloists to crack on the first or second slur to the high note in that solo, even if they never do in rehearsal. I played this at a band camp in Texas in about 1988 or so. so happy to hear it again on KZbin!

We are preforming this song in Region I band of New jersey, it's so terrible. for such i high level band its very dissapointing

(I dont hear maracas but...) Hey that is the best performance of this piece that I found online. Congratulations! very good!

Metro Gnome (Bourgeois 1999) is wonderful too :)

Just played this yesterday in Savannah, GA, and Jack Stamp also conducted us!

I was performing this! I remember being annoyed that there were no recordings to be found of this piece before the festival- well now we have one!

Absolutely magnificent. ♪♥

Absolutely magnificent. ♪♥

We played this for All-District Honor band yesterday. I played first tenor sax and at first I honestly didn't like it as much as I thought I would, but when we finally played it in the concert and I heard everyone around me putting all their hearts into it I realized just how incredible this piece sounds. Definitely on of my favorite pieces I've played

So great to hear 'Classical' music in odd time.

amazingness, just PURE amazingness. my band is playing this song. its such a beautiful peice to be playing and when we kick other schools assses at our UIL competetion because of this song, (and A Longford Legend by Robert Sheldon) im going to be proud that i got to play the french horn backround music. we've already started rehearsels for this song. its december 17, and we need to play this by late february.

he can do everything o.O

This is a really pretty piece, and we play it in my symphonic band when we need to work on keeping up with slow moving music. I love it, it's a beautiful piece. If we can't play one of the others, we might play this. I kind of hope so

Not a solo bass clarinet shares the aforementioned part.

Played this piece in my district honor band earlier this year. Our guest conductor did some pretty fun tricks with the tempo; speeding it up one phrase and slowing it down another. Regardless of how it is played, this is one of the most incredible pieces I've ever heard and had the privilege to play.

Sarcasm is not your forte.

You don't have to be a musical prodigy to play it in 8th grade. I'm in 8th grade and we are playing this, which is why I'm here, but by no means are we prodigies. Also, the age really has little to do with the ability to play this song. Its the actual musical skill that matters.

so relaxing love it

Played it in band camp I found it hard to get perfect even as 10 chair third trumpet

I have the honor of playing first flute on this piece this Tuesday... Our band just found out that the piece we played in the spring, Danny Boy, was supposed to be dedicated to his grandmother who deceased earlier this year. He invited his grandfather to listen to the piece in remembrance of his lost wife-he couldn't make it. His grandfather passed on shortly after... This piece is now meant to be dedicated to both of them...to show the happiness in the sorrow...I pray I do it justice...

Wow. It's depressing inan uplifting kind of way! Awesome to play. Amazing.

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I'm not a huge John Mackey fun, but I love this piece

This piece may be technically easy. But the real challenge is in the lyric. Do not nark a piece because it is "easy"

I was in this! French horn from Alaska!

Not hard, but really amazing to play. I really wish my high school band would play this again.

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