Independence High School - Arabesque - Samuel R. Hazo

Our band went to festival today and we were AWESTRUCK when we watched another school from our city perform this beautiful song 🫶 Happy Festival! Have a good day everyone

[@audrey.w.2005]

seeing all the people impressed in the audience makes me proud lol, we worked really hard on this piece and it worked out!

[@jessytapia8353]

All of us form the mmhs band we’re pretty freakin impressed from that song. We loved it so much. Very good job to all of you guys in there!!!

[@AriTheInterloper]

im in a highschool band and i wish i could play as good as yall 😭

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

Yup

[@ansontseng8271]

Being honest, many professionally played versions of this is bad. But u guys literally aced it

[@reallifedoor4536]

Seriously greeat job on this, people always say how they get chills when they hear a band play something really well, this was the first time that's ever happened to me (obv the trombones after the clap haha). It felt like I was actually there, you all did amazing curious though, what instrument were you playing?

[@TheRadicalJJJ]

i absolutely love the two dudes on front just vibing the hardest

[@jessytapia8353]

I’m the dude with the black hat lol

[@TheRadicalJJJ]

@@jessytapia8353 you and your friend are absolutely epic

[@diegoc.8555]

@@jessytapia8353 your bro in the white kills me when I watch this, glad y’all enjoyed it 😂 - Trumpet on stage

[@gabylinares7070]

@@jessytapia8353 lmao you and your friends reactions to my flute solo was amazing, glad you guys thought arabesque was cool! :’)🫶🏼

[@jessytapia8353]

@@gabylinares7070 That was you?? Dude YOU KILLED THAT SOLO!!!

[@AriTheInterloper]

i love how the audience was completely engaged. i know some musicians dont like it when they cheer during a piece, but i find it fun and makes me feel like theyre genuinely enjoying it

[@Caff-pv8fg]

that flute soloist is so good sdiaojsdpioajsdp

[@DinoDBD]

0:16 when the front guy heard the trill he was like “OMFG THEY PLAYING ARABESQUE”

[@teagan.biers03]

the guy in the beginning was completely flabbergasted by the solo

[@jadynaguilar21]

i was literally in awe the entire time....MY JAW WAS ON THE FLOOR

[@itz_officialyt8722]

Im Glad you liked it, we put a lot of hours into this piece lol

[@jadynaguilar21]

@@itz_officialyt8722 I can tell!!! It was an amazing performance fr! Great job! also.....the flute solo was outstanding too!!!

[@itz_officialyt8722]

@@jadynaguilar21 I KNOW, flute soloist is mt friend, she popped off. Im the first trombone and i gotta say that was one of my best runs yet

[@jadynaguilar21]

@@itz_officialyt8722 YES YOU GUYS FS POPPED OFF! Me personally, I've never heard or played that song before. But some of my fellow bandmates did, and they would always ask our band director to play the piece but we never were able to. Now i can see why they would always hype it up tho, its such a good piece!! I really enjoyed getting to hear it live for the first time!

[@audrey.w.2005]

myers refused to let us play it at first bc he thought we wouldn't be able to get it sounding good enough lol, but we did it! 😭 we put a lot of time into it

[@carcar087]

bro the one guy in the front is HILARIOUS

[@jessytapia8353]

Yea lmao that’s my friend I was sitting next to him

[@ivyart3737]

LMAO RIGHT

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

Fr

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

@@jessytapia8353 nice

[@quirkytomatoboy6136]

If you can see the one guy flute, met him at the Independence joint concert on Thursday, he is a cool guy, love his energy, the dude is hyper.

[@hhsmusicalartsprogram]

I met him too! Really nice guy :)

[@khristienhorn]

tempo seems hella fast that it almost feels like a different piece but i’m 100% all for it. amazing amazing rendition from every musician and band director!

[@AriTheInterloper]

most of the time bands will take it like 10-15% faster than the normal tempo because the og piece is 6 minutes long lol

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

@@AriTheInterloperyup

[@ilovehomies]

idk abt all that the ending is so much better when its played slow

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

@@ilovehomies I like a bit faster, I mean I do like it slow a little but if you speed it up a little, I think it will sound better in my opinion

[@AriTheInterloper]

​@@ilovehomies oh dude not the horn rip at the end. the only thing that should be slowed down is the last note. one more count long would've made it so much better

[@spinitsu-]

bro in the white got me going crazy to this high schools performance despite hearing the song a hundred times

[@xs1060]

Bro the guy in the front at the begging either got life changing news or is just loving this concert

[@jessytapia8353]

That’s my friend I was sitting next to him bro we both loved it lmao

[@Lalalanm]

The people in front were all Mira monte students, we were truly impressed/amazed with IHS band !! 😊

[@Aminashins]

Those 2 people in the fronts reaction probably made up for all the time you guys took practicing that. also (2:02) is when the xylophone player starting did AMAZING

[@phantmdraws4898]

You can tell when percussion sections have a mallets main, they are always so talented. I’m a vibes main!

[@curdust]

bro was absolutely flabbergasted by that

[@aquabotstudios4444]

😂

[@bloo14738]

unpopular opinion but my fav is when the low brass comes in at 1:42

[@AriTheInterloper]

not an unpopular opinion btw

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

Yea that part was good

[@mrpenguin8024]

It’s a very popular opinion lol

[@pyrosorus9880]

thats most peoples opinion on this piece lol its the best opinion to have though

[@Octovoid]

I agree

[@osirisgomez3833]

This performance gave me CHILLS, THIS IS SO FLAWLESS OMG, the balance, the attacks, THE EVERYTHING. Almost brought tears to my eyes, this was the best performance I've seen in a while

[@HyperNinja917]

Flawless is a stretch as the flute messed up a segment in the solo. Articulations were sloppy when brass and trombones came in. First beat of low brass lick is too stretched out making it sound sloppy and there needs to be more emphasis on the t on their 3rd and 4th. This is not to discredit them as it could just be the place that ruined their tuning or they've played another piece prior.

[@itz_officialyt8722]

@@HyperNinja917didn’t know we had an online judge here. All 3 judges we played for gave us a superior rating, giving us an overall score of Unanimous Superior. Don’t say “not to discredit them” if you’re going to critique so heavily.

[@Y.C.D.M4321]

the band director was gettin into it lol

[@the-greembeam6767]

I love the low brass/trombone part at 2:36

[@xanyeeast]

Its also horns

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

Fr

[@waterfishyfishy7837]

It's so good

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

@@waterfishyfishy7837 fr

[@Itz_geobri]

Rly good for a high school band

[@skywalkerhecox]

the fact that this got 30k views is awesome. i miss playing with this band ! 😭

[@SamuelMaloney-mb9sg]

How is no one talking about at 2:00 the conductor is vibing? Arabesque is just a vibe in general though so, makes sense.

[@abbi_838]

flutes carried all the way 🤩🤩

[@mrpenguin8024]

And low brass :)

[@tyswift9128]

hah we played this song for our spring concert last friday, shoutout from saugus

[@waterfishyfishy7837]

2:38 hits different, I've herd many arangments and speeds of the songs but this one jus goes hard

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

Fr

[@n4nao]

our middle school almost ALMOST proposed this for our 8th grade band to play as one of our songs for our performance assessment. my friend keeps playing the 2:38 low brass part any chance he gets in class😭

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

Lollll, I’m in 7th grade rn and hoping to play this in high school

[@YIPPIEEEEEE1111]

THAT WAS AMAZING

[@astrofr_29]

tambourine was lowkey cooking

[@kareeb8890]

Wow, the flutes are amazing! I am a clarinet myself in beginners band! 😏 Edit: BTW this conductor: pretty chill 😎😏😮 My conductor: INTENSE MODE ACTIVATED WHEN LOUD PARTS COME UP

[@claudiawalsh9146]

You guys are AMAZING! So proud of all of you!

[@silentplayer6656]

you guys are so talented!

[@ElusivG]

Holy crap this is awesome.

[@DinoDBD]

2:34 THE “OH” AFTER THE CLAPS LMAO

[@bigbruhmento7731]

THE SYNCHRONIZATION. WHOA.

[@Megumin69420]

0:33 those guys knew what was coming, lol

[@Karma_2814]

I hope the crows reacts to the clap during my concert

[@SilverSleek54]

Did they?

[@Thebradykins]

I just wish I heard more Bari sax bass clarinet and tuba at the solo lol I love it though every instrument was amazing

[@jiomoma8185]

best low brass i have every seen play this song

[@emilylagasse3591]

2:27

[@ansontseng8271]

Insane

[@ivyart3737]

That dude in the front 😂😂😂😂

[@rayuuko4801]

I love this part 1:09

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

That part was was good

[@layschips444]

as a trombone player this piece is my ALLLL

[@idontknowanymore6696]

The guy in the white shirt in the crowd at 2:03

[@Schoolfoodew]

2:39 is one of the best trombone parts I've ever heard.

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

All low brass and low reeds

[@marchingband_videos1866]

0:08 dudes reaction in the front always gets me

[@robert_270]

energy is great and it sounds great too but what clarinet is trilling to the wrong note

[@thursdaythursd]

the tempo is so fast my brain cant keep up

[@fhgfgfdgbfdgeastrops-dh4ui]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@vcstorm]

what festival was this? I might have been there

[@hhsmusicalartsprogram]

CMEA Festival 2023 at Stockdale High School on March 14th, 2023!

[@andrewsuyo4225]

where is this school located?

[@hhsmusicalartsprogram]

the one and only killer county california 😜

[@gabylinares7070]

Bakersfield CA

[@tylerstansberry5516]

@@gabylinares7070 Gaby don’t dox us

[@bossm60]

@@gabylinares7070 yeah wtf gaby

[@jm5469]

@@gabylinares7070 L

[@Jiiikom]

1:12 oh am god

[@Confideo1]

off topic but indepence had 1st place stolen from them this last season. im part of jefferson forest hs marching band and i think indepence shouldve won over some stupid emoji show

[@josephperez5055]

What show and school? We’re genuinely confused 😭

[@FizzyStilz]

@@josephperez5055I know I’m a little late, but I think they’re talking about the Independence marching band in Virginia... who’s going to tell them that this is across the country 😭

[@FizzyStilz]

Also yeah I agree, Glitch was so much better than the emoji show (from an audience standpoint), but the emoji show was better technically and had cleaner drill

[@109_0]

are they playing a little above tempo?

[@HyperNinja917]

Yes

[@HyperNinja917]

Conductors have different interpretations than the composer. It’s be weird if the band played the exact tempo as the original as it’s not musical.

[@fhgfgfdgbfdgeastrops-dh4ui]

Plays this piece just like some professional bands

[@TherealHarvestJack]

Me using a piccolo trumpet

[@johnkblank]

Middle school!!??!??!

[@danieloku7560]

Flutes low key carried

[@hhsmusicalartsprogram]

they carried here and always carry everywhere 🤷🏻

[@danieloku7560]

​@@hhsmusicalartsprogram I play trombone and always have to carry the trombone section, but the flutes carried the whole band here. 👌👍

[@quirkytomatoboy6136]

Low key?! Flutes 90% of the time hard carry and the other then is trumpets or clarinets.

[@AdrianSaenzj293]

My opinion I don’t like flutes that much, no offense and it’s just my opinion

[@xxv1perxx337]

Were yall rushing or dragging? Also trumpets jesus tune please

[@hhsmusicalartsprogram]

the negativity of the comment is astronomical… this school did a great performance, and no performance is ever perfect… chill 🤨

[@SsssssM918]

None of the above

[@kaprikorngamer9662]

Bro doesn't know what a rubato is

[@thetheoryofphantomsdelta2779]

dude people adjust the speed to songs all of the time, like every band director does it

[@josephperez5055]

@@SsssssM918no it’s true we were rushing a bit our band director gets a bit too into at times and we have to watch for tempo hence the slight rush but most bands do play it pretty fast