Divertimento for band (Vincent Persichetti) - Performance by Opus 82 (Norway 2016)

Norwegian Concert band Championship 2016
www.opus82.no

[@horowizard]

Marvelous performance. These kids give their all in the name of excellence!

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

composed the year I was born. Persichetti just wrote great stuff.

[@bambino100011]

Fantastic performance!! I got to play this piece in high school and in college. One of my favorite piece by Persichetti!

[@MaxTooney]

Beautiful performance! Soloist on 'Soliloquy'--very nice indeed! My only negative comment--videographer managed to miss almost all of the soloists. This is very common (and very annoying) in music videos.

[@Opus82]

Thanks for the feedback! :-)

[@OmaMspDenSan]

It was as if the camera operators were saying, "what's THAT sound?" but luckily catching the cornet soloist in the last phrase of the movement. Must have been captured by the school's Audio Visual class. 😅 Beautiful playing on a gorgeous rose bell cornet!

[@MlleMetaphysic]

Looking forward to play this

[@haleyjordan3399]

Mvmt 1 (Prologue): 0:05 Mvmt 2 (Song): 1:35 Mvmt 3 (Dance): 3:57 Mvmt 4 (Burlesque): 5:06 Mvmt 5 (Soliloquy): 7:09 Mvmt 6 (March): 9:57

[@adamcole2552]

Thanks

[@tubaman7205]

Loved the performance, but the camera was always in the wrong place.

[@laulago3771]

5:00 eccolo

[@paxwallacejazz]

Copland Jr? I like it though.

[@krantiyatri]

Opus 42 (1950)

[@Oboecoffee]

krantiyatri the Op number may be 42, but the ensembles is called Opus 82

[@petelgeuse7296]

people liking this kind of music must be the same ones defending John Cage as a musician and finding pleasure and deeper meaning in him hitting the alarm clock after watering the flowers in the bathtub and precisely watching the time on which he throughs the fish into the open grand piano in Water walk.....I had to play this twice and I hated it like nothing else I have ever played! It sounds like some dude had like a handful full ideas and didn't know or just could not be bothered to think of some musical context to put it in, so he just put everything on top of each other and called it a day. There is not a singular clear idea or motive to be found, just randomness and confusion.....someone who doesn't understand the musical theory at a deeper level must think this was one big group improvisation! Nothing against the musicians, I know what they are going through while playing this warm steaming piece of musical nonsense!

[@Oboecoffee]

Well I had a wonderful time rehearsing it and playing this concert. Merry Christmas from me, the 2nd oboist

[@petelgeuse7296]

@@Oboecoffee taste is a very objective thing indeed, but Mary Christmas to you too and a great 2022, fingers crossed it's only half as bad as the last.....

[@christianmusila2346]

@@Oboecoffee if you could answer this question for me do you have to audition for bands like this and how would I do that? (Im an aspiring piccolo/flute player about to end high school and was wondering) thanks!!!

[@Oboecoffee]

@@christianmusila2346 most bands in Norway don’t have an audition, at least not the armature band (that’s what Opus 82 is), but we have a mutual trial period where you get to try out how it is to play with us to see if you fit in. That is if the group need new members…

[@BjrnRemseth]

@@Oboecoffee armature == amateur 🙂