GOULD American Salute - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band

"The President's Own" United States Marine Band presents Morton Gould's American Salute, transcribed by Philip Lang. Directed by Col. Michael J. Colburn. From the album "Morton Gould: An American Salute," recorded 2012. www.marineband.marines.mil/
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[@diekluge]

Look at the size of his conductor's baton. Compensating much, Morton Gould? BTW, great performance!

[@pep7890]

You'd rather have him use an English Cucumber?

[@RedRooster0912]

I think this is probably the best version I’ve heard of this song

[@jtmorgan3317]

Definitely

[@cacawsthelaw]

well, it is the marine band

[@jeffgoblue]

Best band version. The original orchestral version by the Boston Pops under Fiedler is the definitive version of the piece.

[@hansbjarning]

Agreed.

[@johnwerth1476]

As a bass clarinetist, I approve - as long as there are only two bassoons and I get to play the cues for the third part.

[@noahcohen8596]

As a fellow bass clarinetist, our band has 3 bassoons (fortunately or unfortunately)

[@manthasagittarius1]

Hah! We had a bassoon, me, a bass clarinet and a baritone sax. We were good and we got it in sync, but the sonority was so hellish the director made me play the top line of the trio as a solo. No pressure, guys . . .

[@Rinasty1]

I play the contrabass clarinet and i play the bass clarinet part and phew am i lucky not to play that bassoon part.

[@WestCoastDP]

Very good. Great band! My old tuba teacher, Ron Munson played in the band in the late '60's. He had some lungs. Not surprising,,, his teacher was Arnold Jacobs.

[@nickbozonelos4446]

The ants go marching 2 by 2 hurrah hurrah

[@jb4469]

I like this song. We’re playing it this year so I decided I’d take a listen.

[@stickfigureinternational8972]

Same here

[@tubapix]

i saw the Marine Band play this in October of 2016 and it was fabulous! I have played it myself a few times and think this piece is a classic! A must perform piece in the library.

[@Juliancov2213]

I'm an 8th grader playing a grade 5 music. This man was crazy with this piece! It took me a while to learn it!

[@noahhinton2657]

I listen to this piece every single day

[@thepapermon6220]

Love this piece! My marching band show is doing it (the theme is honey i shrunk the band) and we all scramble into ants

[@stickfigureinternational8972]

We were going to play this for a concert but it got cancelled so we could have more time to prepare for UIL (Texas’s music, fine arts, and athletics tests and competitions are done at most the state level with UIL) and I thought this was hell as a clarinet. After 3 months of being in the top band with challenging college level music we weren’t supposed to be playing but we’re playing nonetheless because of our band director wanting to be the best in Texas, I no longer see this as hell but a fun piece that is a certified hood classic.

[@johnxina2555]

O damn we playing this for UIL

[@banjoshumate]

I played this as a cellist in Colonel Arnald Gabriel's McLean Orchestra under the baton of Les Brown. Incredible experience!

[@Music_MikeZ]

They really want flutes to die in this song

[@Lutefisk445]

As a flute, kinda yeah. Our version is dumbed down a bit, though

[@stevemulwitz8683]

FANTASTIC AND OUT OF SIGHT!

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

0:00--0:14: WLEX-TV, the NBC station in Lexington, Kentucky, used this portion of Gould's piece for the opening and closing of its local newscasts in the early 1970s.

[@DrHexagon_]

I’m a freshman trumpet that just got this piece today… pray for me

[@wesleyjones3701]

Word. I'm a freshman trombonist that just got this part yesterday. Have to have it memorized within 6 days. Absolutely not. Prayers to both of us.

[@DrHexagon_]

My performance actually went quite well, after the first few times playing it and you start getting the hang of it it’s not that bad, you’re gonna do great dawg🔥

[@wesleyjones3701]

@@DrHexagon_ congratulations! I'm Marching it in a parade soon, so cheers to your success and my hope

[@phillyphakename1255]

@@wesleyjones3701 presumably the parade has passed. How did it go?

[@wesleyjones3701]

@@phillyphakename1255 it indeed has! It went surprisingly well.

[@anthonywindau1684]

Why did the Marine Band choice to feature Morten Gould? I've played music by him in band, and it's wonderful! Thanks for doing this, I get exposed to music I would have otherwise never heard!

[@manthasagittarius1]

This is an absolute classic. I remember playing it 50 years ago in my high school band (first bassoon). It's not on the same order of art music as Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, which the Marines also play perfectly and with the most moving gravity -- but the American Salute is very quirky compositionally and lies in that gray area between pops music and a 20th century American art idiom that owes its soul to Copland. The Marine Band, as I said, has both the weight and the uncanny precision to give it this stirring and slightly insane rendering. I have not heard it often between back then and now. Listening to it fully 50 years since I have played it, something else is impressing me about it. There is a fever-dream quality to it in places, or so I imagine, that seems a response to a spirit of war and the fervor of patriotism mobilized to meet it. As it is, this work and Copland's fanfare were both composed in 1942, shortly after America entered WWII, as responses to the challenge. And of course the song the variations are based on in this piece is the quintessential Northern melody associated with the American Civil War, our own national historic nightmare. Just musing. This is December 6, 2016. We are into a new national experiment with uncertain prospects and a lot of trepidation. We have to pack up and bring our traditions, our art, our music, our lessons learned or forgotten. This piece, I think, will go into the satchel.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

Hit this link. www.marineband.marines.mil/Portals/175/Docs/Audio/Educational_Series/FamilyAlbum/family_album.pdf

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

There is a connection between the Marine Band and the composer.

[@wrapp1000]

Well to all us Desis,this song is “Na bole tum na maine kuch” I heard this music in Mafia 1 though.

[@amandasencenbaugh3878]

and even better, this song makes it into music memory 2018.

[@usaydally6770]

It’s made it all the way to 2022 I’m playing it with my band

[@pressureworks]

6 Johnny Rebs didn't know the song was sung by both sides.

[@beanz_8193]

As a freshman clarinetist who has to play the partial solo for at the flute, piccolo, and clarinet feature, This pieces feels both hilariously fun and hilariously difficult

[@randombonapartist]

choose your fighter constitutional american republic american union state combined syndicates of america united states of america pacific states of america (only kaiserredux fans understand)

[@aballman4]

Dont mind me, commenting so I can go back to the part I need to play for auditions... 1:51

[@aballman4]

2:40

[@usaydally6770]

No cause this is the exact spot I needed😭

[@aballman4]

@@usaydally6770 I gotchuuuu

[@rae_babes]

2:00

[@carly6207]

1:27

[@buckbuckbish8568]

I love amaerica

[@stephaniecurry45]

america bad

[@MrJazzSaxophonist]

Why at 1:59 is that mad sus chord in the horns from the original orchestra score not in this arrangement?

[@shaunsalem]

TimTheToolMan10 It’s not a sus chord. In the orchestral version, the Eb Chord is followed by an Emin Chord 3 measures in front of H. We just made this correction in the band arrangement we’re playing. It’s simple. Make all Ebs and Bbs natural three measures in front of H (except the last two pick up notes into H) and you’ve now got the orchestral version.

[@eddievelez4723]

It could have been an error considering the limited time frame this piece was written in, but that’s unlikely

[@maxwellkowal3065]

I believe the orchestral version was actually a transcription of the band version.

[@jeffgoblue]

@@maxwellkowal3065 The orchestral version came first in 1942. Lang’s band transcription came several years later.

[@maxwellkowal3065]

@@jeffgoblue I've already learned for the past few months now, but this comment was old amd I forgot about it

[@vincentaramburu4269]

Im playing this on piccolo for concert in 2 weeks pray for me 😂😂

[@reachmay]

T

[@julianjimenez2971]

3:40

[@snipersnake777]

Oh look. 6 talibans dislikes

[@Cheesy_33]

he looks like joseph goebbels

[@shanelogan3306]

1:50

[@carcar087]

1:01

[@carcar087]

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