A Hanukkah Festival

A Hanukkah Festival is a medley of three traditional Hanukkah songs, "Sevivon," "Maoz Tzur," and "Hanukkah." "Sevivon" has a dramatic melody and is written with a variety of accompaniment leading to a brief, but impressive, clarinet cadenza that leads into "Maoz Tzur." This traditional piece is scored with full, rich voicings along with the beautiful melody. "Hanukkah" is the festival of lights and the last section of the piece. It is a bright playful march with an exciting conclusion. A Hanukkah Festival is filled with memorable tunes that students and audiences will enjoy while paying homage to this important holiday.
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[@bugy8369]

Thank God we had a clarinet who could play that cadenza, very beautiful solo. It was a senior who has been playing clarinet since 6th grade. We finished our show with this piece about an hour and a half ago

[@CBernotas]

Good luck to all who are performing this in an upcoming concert!

[@sonjiaslee4435]

Thanks I have been ready to perform this at my high school ever since we got it I love this piece of music

[@mrmusicverse]

I am still unsure of this myself, I will have to listen to it closely once my performance group does it.

[@bryanvazquez9938]

Chris Bernotas I played this a few days ago! It was fun

[@Sunol942]

Chris Bernotas ,, I am a senior citizen and just started playing violin again after a 43 year absence. I used to play in 5th through 9th grade. I now play in a senior community orchestra and we just played your song “a Hanukkah Festival” at our holiday concert. I love this song! Enjoyed playing it very much!

[@kylesiegel6356]

Your xylophone parts got me stuck

[@josephinecosmosse4740]

for us we got a really lucky clarinet doing the solo

[@thatbandgirl2535]

me too!

[@datboiisnotonfire2270]

band test on this tomorrow y'all mind if I die real quick

[@TTWackyDog]

Playing this in our winter concert tomorrow. Go clarinets!

[@Mgaby1992]

my high school band was just given this piece yesterday to perform tomorrow.. we have done major sight reading.. but i have to say, we practically got it down the second day, but we are a high leveled high school band, so it was pretty easy compared to the other music we have to practice for your competitions which are level 4-5 pieces

[@NagaNora1997]

4:12 always kills me in low brass section.

[@victorsiu690]

Tran Laura feels bad, i play tenor sax and that part isn’t that bad for us.

[@hannahmichaels9992]

pray for me i play the flute in this song. regardless this is my fav out of our upcoming concert. sooooo good

[@CBernotas]

You got this! Have a great performance :)

[@hannahmichaels9992]

Chris Bernotas thank you :-)

[@TheKayleeBebe]

I can't wait to play the flute part

[@soggywaffles1356]

I played this song with my high school band and I LOVE it! It's really cool with all the back and forth playing.

[@nubbienubster]

I am in sixth grade our band concert is tomorrow and we only had two days to learn this

[@basstion4146]

Can you clarinot

[@galinaclark6546]

i clarican hun we need recognition ._.

[@byronlee991017]

in our band, we're playing this for our concert, and our lead flute is german, and our lead baritone sax is a jew.

[@kylesiegel6356]

this is my favorite piece i have played throughout high school i played the xylophone part and i just loved it

[@Mauriziobarenboim]

A Met Opera bass player told me a story when a conductor wanted a horn to play louder, and he was trying to play as loud as he can; the orchestra people knew that the conductor was talking talking to them not the horn player.

[@braids247]

when we play sevion my band director keeps saying alto saxes and french horns play louder. but there's only three saxophones and 2 french horns so compred to the 27 flutes and clarinets not even including the brass whos playing louder than us and its just ridiculous how loud we have to play to be heard. then in hanukkah when the saxophones have the sixteenth notes we just kinda stop playing and look at him with a derp face

[@thesaltyhunter257]

Im playing this for my winter concert coming up, and lol this clarinet music has got me trippin. Sixteenth notes are my arch enemy

[@claytonsloan10]

I played the solo for this it was great haha

[@William.Marsh.]

Great piece! Preparing the perform it this holiday season, it's so much fun to play on the tuba.

[@spikespike4126]

Gorgeous! I love it!

[@Jack-gm8hw]

Performing this on Tuesday. Can’t wait to play the glockenspiel solo!! 😁

[@MintyDonuts]

How tf do you do the clarinet cadenza

[@kuul5951]

When your a flute and your band director keeps telling you to play measure 53 🥴

[@sroody8008]

playing xylophone for this piece

[@kevinrooney7954]

+crazysadie9 It might actually be my favorite thing to play on the xylophone

[@mrmusicverse]

Xylophone? You're kidding, right? I don't know if there is a part for this tune.

[@kevinrooney7954]

Robert McCartney Open your ears man!!

[@kevinrooney7954]

Robert McCartney Right about 4:09 to the end.

[@mrmusicverse]

I am still trying to grasp what is going on in this piece. It sounds almost like a symphonic short story.

[@lordfour475]

You're watching this because you don't know how to play it and just want to hear the actual song with your part in it, aren't you?

[@247Drummer247]

im playing tambourine for my band

[@hannahmichaels9992]

i have the flute part at 1:10 i have the concert in five days and im screwing up the rhythm please help

[@jasonrondeau6345]

hann j. michaels I got a concert tomorrow and playing the snare solo. We both screwed

[@MusicallyAris]

Such a bop

[@izzymiller23]

listening to this in 2020 and thinking about the christmas concerns that won’t be happening 😔

[@PhilMusical]

I'm a low, specifically Bass Clarinet. Big yes for 4:34

[@soundwavexd6602]

I play Mallet percussion and this part 4:02 was difficult at first.

[@nickwalzel9375]

I get the clarinet solo yayyyyyy

[@zarinakhader8974]

Same :) howd u do? im so nervous!!

[@nickwalzel9375]

It was so fun haha, you'll do great! :) I was kind of nervous at first because I was like dang I'm a freshman about to play this XD, but just practice and you got this!

[@zarinakhader8974]

ok thanks!! haha im in 8th grade :)) glad it was fun!

[@mrmusicverse]

The clarinet solo cadenza? Lucky you.

[@mb778_]

I love that cadenza!

[@mrmusicverse]

I was just handed this piece only yesterday evening at my community band rehearsal; I am completely unfamiliar with this piece. I know that Hannukah is the festival of lights, but I had no idea there was a tune to signify it. None of the 3 tunes featured in this selection don't even sound REMOTELY traditional to me, but maybe that is because I am more inclined to play popular concert tunes. I don't know what to make of this, to be perfectly honest.

[@mrmusicverse]

Bass Clarinet, Sonjia. I don't even know what grade this piece is.

[@mrmusicverse]

It doesn't look easy to me, and I play for a community band.

[@sonjiaslee4435]

oh I play in a concert band and I do marching band to

[@mrmusicverse]

I didn't expect you to know. Maybe someone who has a knowledge of this tune can tell me.

[@andrewperez6147]

Sonjia Slee grades only go up to grade 6, this piece is grade 3

[@xxthecoremanxx3448]

I play baritone saxophone for this and am quite nervous but can’t get it out of my head I sang all through work

[@CBernotas]

xXTheCoremanXx Don’t be nervous! You are going to rock it. The fact that you are thinking about it shows how much you care and that will get you through!

[@xxthecoremanxx3448]

Chris Bernotas THANK YOU THAT ACTUALLY MEANS SO MUCH! I got home and looked it right up lol my favorite part is the end where I play the low C

[@xxthecoremanxx3448]

Chris Bernotas all though I love the whole song lol

[@aaqibkhimani6944]

Dude this is rad

[@xxXXMJfanXXxx]

At 1:49 it sounds like a guitar instead of a Clarinet... COOL.

[@mrmusicverse]

That is the Clarinet cadenza.

[@excanadianpheasant]

That’s an oboe

[@MistyMarss444]

Benthegamer it's a clarinet.

[@soggywaffles1356]

Great!

[@letters2london]

I can't think of anything witty to say, but I'm commenting anyway. I do what I want!

[@maddyriggio2433]

Lmao

[@elw.1875]

fighting for my life at 167 tbh. -alto sax

[@Krystinanosoul]

@lordfour475 we're playing this in my band rite now..it's not particularily difficult...

[@kuul5951]

Bruh the flutes part tho

[@465fire]

Um no but if I played clarinet yes

[@ThatBirdMann]

Bari ♥

[@cie5020]

ThatBirdMann same

[@jonzilberman9097]

Let’s gooooo bari sax

[@cabbageashthe1st594]

I hope I’m not the only one that heard and played this song and thought it was a death march, that’s not a bad thing just a thing I thought (Edit): also RIP all my trombone brothers and sisters that went off beat in the third part

[@hayleydimmick]

@lordfour475 which is a great technique! :)

[@missblak00]

💝🙏

[@basstion4146]

Sounds good but when you actually play the piece the trumps always mess up

[@dovaboy9394]

We all know the French horn is the supreme instrument

[@ChaeunPark]

@lordfour475 nah, I can play everything... mostly....

[@Donny4577]

@AznMuhDuhYou ?

[@linnea003]

Oh god this is scary I have the solo

[@465fire]

this is freakin amazing jewishness

[@chrisnuqui3903]

my band director hates the jews and wont let us play this song

[@fallenarchangel6711]

Ouch! Tell it director that 1) the songs are beautiful and 2) there's a lot of good techniques and stylistic moves to be learned in this song. Also, in ur head, tell ur director that they're an anti-Semitic dick.

[@Jack-gm8hw]

sarsimi what a dick.

[@Donny4577]

@lordfour475 LONG LIVE US JEWS!

[@Timothyw0]

@Donny4577 You are really funny,,,, NO