UMich Symphony Band -Leonard Bernstein - Overture to Candide

[@malcolmkatzen1320]

I love how well the low trumpets sound in this. They are filling the ensemble so well in the exposed sections.

[@dannysampson615]

We did this at my school, best thing we ever performed

[@arev2485]

What a beautiful rendition of this overture!!! Seems like symphonic band is giving more justice than the original orchestral version

[@kameron2136]

that poor Eb clarinet player! Bless his heart

[@eliasclarinetista]

Haha, but I had so much fun playing this e-flat part!!! :)

[@yenyen-cy9ke]

Lol

[@ecoRfan]

I couldn’t play it. My perfect pitch mind is tuned to B flat; so of course I’d finger everything wrong. Can’t go by feel when the pitch is totally different.

[@BruceRichardsonMusic]

So well played. In particular, sometimes wind bands can't quite achieve the dynamic shapes that an orchestra can on this piece. In particular, the last "glitter" section leading up to the ending, they hit the three distinct dynamic levels that make that section work. I've heard many wind ensembles fail to differentiate them as clearly. Bravo.

[@yenyen-cy9ke]

i was ALMOST going to sleep but one part of the song just jolted me awake like i was awoken from a night mare😨😨😨

[@paul-zx5du]

E-flat sopranino clarinet nailed it. Amazing intonation.

[@justinqrramos5321]

There are 8 horn players and I still want more😤😤AHHHHHH

[@ChipsAplentyBand]

The arranger of this wind ensemble version of Bernstein's OVERTURE TO CANDIDE, the late Walter Beeler, was a longtime faculty member at Ithaca College's (Ithaca, NY) School of Music where he played Euphonium and conducted the Concert Band. Beeler was reputedly an 'old school,' demanding conductor and stickler for his students acquiring both facile technique and musical sensibility under his tutelage. I marticulated at Ithaca College in 1974, just two years after Beeler had died, as a Euphonium player myself and I studied the instrument under Beeler's successor, Tubist James H. Linn, and playedstudied under Conductor Edward J.Gobrecht, Jr., who took Beeler's place leading the Concert Band. Other fine transcriptions of the Overture have been prepared by others as well and Beeler's transcription, which I played myself during college, sounds a bit 'heavier' overall than some of the other versions, although the Woodwind writing, which takes over the bulk of the Violin duty from Bernstein's original, sounds very much the same in every transcription I've heard to date. I sometimes wonder if Bernsten ever heard any of the Wind Band transcriptions of this sparkling piece himself and, if so, if he might have been pleased that so many Band students got to share in the performance of his music as a result. I do think that, whichever transcription is used, the performance benefits in transparency from a smaller vs. a larger ensemble, and this seems appropriate to me given the (lean) size of a typical pit orchestra on Broadway, which was the intended venue for Bernstein's musical. My congratulations to these University of Michigan students for their fine performance of this music and, if I might also add, for many fine past performances of the music of my former music composition teacher, Karel Husa, as well. Karel was a faculty member at both Ithaca College and Cornell Univeristy for many years and I was lucky to have studied with him at both institutions. He guest conducted all over the world, incuding in all fifty states of the USA, and at the U of Michigan in Ann Arbor specifically a number of times. Donald Campfield, D.M.A. November 17, 2024

[@muchomango11]

Interesting to see this without strings, and the saxophones sounds great!

[@GeometricMason]

We did this same arrangement in high school. We practiced for the better part of a year and a half. It was the last thing the director conducted there before retiring.

[@geozinc1622]

My highschool's wind ensemble played this and they were amazing

[@hotelsierra1911]

This is awesome!

[@vicf6509]

Wel done and good tempo.

[@TarnishedLord01]

Saxes at 1:42 are ❤❤❤

[@marioalbertohernandez3651]

Me hubiera gustado tal vez ser norteamericano para tener las oportunidades que ellos tienen. Soy un viejo pianista mexicano.

[@reagencrow2577]

Why only 2 euphs

[@farriselkhatib7524]

indeed

[@mr.klunee4103]

That's all they need. These ensembles are often set with flexible instrumentation that changes based on what's required for each performance. The conductor may have only wanted/needed 2 for this particular performance.

[@HDDude1981]

Hear that e-flat clarinet heheh

[@rockybushes]

i really like the part at 4:05

[@elqixoni1892]

Does anyone know the arranger ?

[@ChipsAplentyBand]

I wrote a comment above about the arranger, Walter Beeler, a longtime member of the faculty of the School of Music at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. I arrived at Ithaca Colllege as an undergraduate freshman two years after Beeler had died, but otherwise would have ended up studying with him because my instrument was Euphonium as was his. Walter also conducted the Concert Band at IC for many years. Though I never met the man himself I did later meet both his widow, Joan Beeler, who was a Band conductor too as her husband had been, and also their adult daughter. I used to work in the music library within the School of Music which housed all the ensemble music scores/parts and Mrs. Beeler would come in during the summer months to borrow sheet music for the local community band she conducted to use. A major section of that library was dubbed the Beeler Library because Walter had donated his large personal collection of Band sheet music to the School, which housed/used it at that point alongside their own collection of ensemble sheet music.

[@markbernard4156]

Why is there no piccolo!!!!!!!!

[@mattiademonti2857]

The piccolo is there, it's covered up by the band director for all the video but at some moments you can see it!

[@knc44simple33]

Not only is there a piccolo a piccolo isn’t and essential instrument needed for every single performance

[@imawarawara]

KNC44Simple even though it’s not essential it’s good for flute players to have one if it’s affordable. I play clarinet primarily but I occasionally play flute for musicals but I also have a piccolo just in case.

[@ecoRfan]

@@mattiademonti2857 drowned out by E flat clarinet maybe

[@malloryconnelly6903]

nice

[@stefan.agnello9772]

3:45 hits

[@ecoRfan]

3:26 for me

[@dylanh8602]

0:40

[@danielcescato8354]

generallt sux to play e-ffer

[@dominicluthje771]

All your hear is Eb clarinet!

[@LowryYT]

E flat clarinet has main character syndrome

[@josephjeon804]

Ngl brass + saxes > wood winds

[@Thebackrooms_owner]

𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓵 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂𝓮𝓭

[@dylanh8602]

0:26