SCORE STUDY EPISODE #33: CHESTER OVERTURE (Schuman)

[@sgsmozart]

My high school band..Havre,Montana played this for festival adjudication in May 1963.. A marvelous piece that everyone really loved !

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

Wow! the piece was only 6 or 7 years when you played it. It’s defiantly significant repertoire

[@harrisonjcollins]

Great vid as always, and I’m so glad you used the President’s Own recording! This one’s my favorite by far, of this piece and of the entire triptych.

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

yeah, their recording is my new favorite of the whole triptych

[@Purple1222119Music]

So happy to see a reduction and analysis of this one! I really love all the different ways Schuman elaborated on the main theme.

[@c.k.mcknight8921]

Whenever I see an upload from you, I stop whatever I'm doing, man. I love this piece. Played it when I was a senior in high school. I was finally starting to really come into my full music capabilities, if that makes sense. Or rather, it was when all the practicing I'd been doing since I started playing clarinet was starting to pay off. Thanks for the memories.

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

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[@iuptubaman]

One of my favorite pieces! Great analysis!!

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

Mine too! Thanks :)

[@looney1023]

Excellent job, as always! For a future analysis, I think it would be really interesting to tackle a concert band transcription of an orchestra piece, especially one done by the composer themself, through the lens of how the arranger chooses to assign which parts to which sections, how the string voices are adapted to the woodwinds, while retaining the original woodwind parts and how certain string effects (tremolos, pizzicato, col legno, etc.) are adapted to achieve a similar effect in a concert band setting. It's a bit more niche, and you're clearly a concert band literature devotee, but I think I might be a really cool diversion to consider :D

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

I've debated whether to do transcriptions or not, for now I've just been doing original works for winds. But perhaps in the future I could do what you mentioned.

[@paulmillion9403]

I would love to see your treatment on Caillet's adaptation of Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral

[@kendalls5451]

lots of good memories associated with this piece :) thanks for this one anthony

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

Same here, it’s probably the piece that made me want to be a composer!

[@jenkinsfamily2229]

Man, I love the opening chorale.

[@prismaria3408]

Músicas lindas muito bonitas

[@steverman2312]

A cool analysis *and* a free transcription to go off of for my project? What is it, christmas?

[@rolsen77]

ooooh speaking of new england triptych, an analaysis of that would be really awesome. or When Jesus Wept at the very least

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

I'd love to do that soon, but I've done 2 Schuman pieces so far and I'd like to give other composers the spotlight before coming back for more of him

[@rolsen77]

@@AnthonyOTooleMusic that's reasonable haha! i look forward to your next score video!

[@tehehetochan1500]

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