WILLIAMS Midway March - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band

"The President's Own" United States Marine Band performs John Williams' "Midway March" on Monday, February 23, 2015, for its concert titled "Time Capsule 1945: The 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II" at the Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD. Conducted by Lt. Col. Jason K. Fettig. www.marineband....
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[@coloraturaElise]

Incredible playing....woodwinds sound like one person playing all those embellishments! Bravi!

[@rebeccagriffiths4875]

Yes

[@chrissimonson7294]

And that's the OPENING to the concert? Wow...

[@nickolasmoore4128]

All those trumpets hitting that high D in the end gives me goosebumps. Alumni trumpet player from the “Oldest High School Band In America” 1872

[@FifthContinentMusic]

Excellent performance. The U S Marine Band is the best of all the U S Armed Service bands.

[@chrissimonson7294]

They are fantastic, yes. Having said that, have you ever heard the Air Force Band? Woof!

[@talismon63]

The Worlds Best and the best military band in D.C. bar none. The Air force band is good but they’re no Presidents Own!

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

@@Gordontrek One of my friends enlisted in the Marines in the 60s. They found out he played the trombone, auditioned him, and put him in this band. What a deployment! He loved his God, and his country. He served both.

[@supernutkin5122]

Yes, I agree ...... they're ALMOST as good as HM Royal Marines Bands

[@Isolder74]

There is a reason it’s called The President’s Own.

[@johndates9827]

This would be a fitting tribute to the men of "Torpedo 8" who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

[@lucassimmons3496]

They were a microcosm actually for all of their fellow aviators in the torpedo squadrons of task forces 16 and 17 that day I believe it was 15 launched from each carrier and only George Gay survived out of all the crews. That said I agree it would be a great tribute to all of the torpedo squadrons who bought the dive bombers that five minute window that changed history

[@Isolder74]

Given Williams wrote the score for the movie and the squadron is featured in the movie the soundtrack includes music dedicated to their attack.

[@roheryn43]

I can’t get over how obsessed I’ve become with this composition ever since I heard yesterday!!! This has quickly become my favorite composition! This performance is absolutely perfect!! Another great performance by the best wind band in America!!!

[@derekmcintyre2533]

One of my all time favorites to play! This piece is so under rated.

[@nonyabiz9487]

LOVE THIS! The Battle of Midway was a great naval battle ALL Marines and Sailors need to remember as one of the greatest war victories of mankind. Good choice of music!

[@liamcarey560]

It was one hell of a fight

[@nonyabiz9487]

@@liamcarey560 It was mostly a victory won by luck and all by aircraft.. The two fighters didnt even see each other face to face.

[@stevencox1651]

The pilots did though. And we were better. @@nonyabiz9487

[@SlippinJimmy89]

I have wanted to be a marine since I knew my dad was a marine and I a freshman saxophonist just played this piece at my inaugural concert of the season and it’s really cool to see the band that I’ve always dreamed of being in perform this piece

[@josephcarlbreil5380]

Far and away the best of the U S service bands.

[@nx9100]

I loved renting this movie from the video store when growing up (in the 90's). One of my favorite marches. Always plays in my head when I'm doing anything that involves aircraft carriers, lol.

[@cosmicsubliminals7064]

The french horns are everything that I hope to be

[@heavypen]

I'm happy to say I played the tuba part in a community band-it was one of the most enjoyable tuba parts ever written. But what about that piccolo part!! Yeowza!

[@markyale6953]

John Williams has been a great composer for a very very long time, however, like the theme to 1941 This theme to Midway is so under appreciated and under performed... even the theme to Superman doesn't get played to much when he gets recognized... but i for 1 love them... :)

[@jessicaeernisse958]

Prayers for protection for me and those that I love! My apartment is the most unsafe places of all! Anywhere but Mount Vernon Georgia, please!!! I have absolutely NO protection and no one to talk to and my apartment is robbed repeatedly!!! Thank you for your services and for sharing your gifts and talents in music! Music is my therapy and passion!!! So talented!!! Simply amazing!!!

[@raymondchapa6919]

Bravo! What an Outstanding Military Band!

[@mazywazzy8185]

We had to play this for 8th grade band, really fun and it was our first experience with 12/8 (from a snare drum)

[@erichonsowetz3535]

Written before John Williams was JOHN WILLIAMS for a movie which really didn't capture the full drama of what was probably the greatest strategic victory the US Navy every had. There were two times that an invasion was turned back in WW2. Wake Island & Midway Atoll. At Midway the US Navy decimated the Nippon Navy's ability to project offensive power, making this the most important battle of the war. Williams captures both that, and at the same time the huge cost the US Navy paid via the understated opening and closing to the March. A brilliant achievement.

[@erichonsowetz3535]

I have heard various bands play this including the Marine Band & the Army Field Band. They all get it wrong. William's directing the studio orchestra is the only one that gets it right, because although it is a march, it doesn't start out that way. It starts out with single solos & at a slower tempo, the sounds of a navy which has survived, barely, a great battle, but really doesn't understand what has happened. At the start it is about all the dead from the battle, as it builds it is about the struggle, and at the end it is about the triumph of the end of that battle. Played strictly at march tempo the piece cannot tell that story.

[@jameslewis1605]

Special. Haven't heard a good March since high school band days.

[@Belano1911]

Word fail me, this is just totally superb.

[@badasshiker9637]

Most people know John Williams more famous compositions like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I had no idea he did this. My favorite Navy movie from an old salt.

[@marcvg1625]

Sublime 👍👍👍. A most marvellous composition, played by America’s most outstanding musicians.

[@tracylarson1935]

On of my favorite movies. Midway with Henry Fonda as Admiral Nimitz.

[@hpa2005]

After watching Midway (1976) and the Midway movie from 2019: I have to say that Mr. Fonda better captured Adm. Nimitz's personality.

[@tracylarson1935]

@@hpa2005 Let me tell you something I had chance to watch the newer one, I it's own right, It was great movie. But the 1976 original is my favorite. Thank for you reply.

[@vtiger81]

Maestro John Towner Williams! A true legend in American Music and History!

[@jonnybottle]

Great version. JW is the man!

[@ronaldolucas6157]

Very Beautiful ! ! Great !

[@PUCCINIMUSICK]

Hats off: you play bloody well, lads. Doing this with the Lucca Philharmonic next year, hope to be at your height!

[@maryliz3718]

This was so much fun to play on horn!

[@dandraking2580]

OMG! I want the clarinet sheet music to that!!!

[@rickyjagodowski69]

Don't we all?

[@TheBlueScience]

No you don’t. Trust me. You don’t.

[@johngood3163]

Wow, what a great band; great work on this, never heard it before; sounds like a Williams piece

[@xdashlydia]

It is! Williams *is* the March King of the late 20th and early 21st century. His movie music also brought new life to symphonic music in an era when synthesizers were supposedly taking over the workd.

[@craigwignes]

it was insanely good the all sound so in sink.

[@dalemaria11]

Superb controlled playing. Class.

[@XprPrentice]

I'm so glad I came across this band version of the piece - I played it in high school, and while I appreciate the original orchestral version, this one is _my_ original. And now I think of it, I wonder if this might be the best American military march since Sousa - especially with the syncopation and jazzy ending. Thanks for sharing!

[@XprPrentice]

And as a band that obviously plays many marches, it's interesting to note how expressive Lt. Col. Fettig is here. I once played in Col. Bourgeois's band, and I distinctly remember his minimal gestures in the march. Fascinating!

[@Slow_Whoops]

Very good concert

[@Shuaiguy13]

Those still in the military, this is the song that plays when contacting the ALMS helpdesk.

[@physes1139]

Clarinets at the beginning tho. Hats off. Well done!

[@kaylag7810]

I have UIL in 2 days and were playing this song and 2 others

[@largerumbrella]

This is an excellent example of conducting perfection. I have played this as a pianist in the band. It is very difficult. The woodwind parts are really hard. The ensemble must work as a team and follow every gesture. A magnificent performance.

[@geraldolima3561]

Fantastic precision! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@jakeblade9]

Beautiful!

[@Dark_Point0]

Bloody marvellous.

[@yuqiongpan400]

Wonderful.

[@johnparker917]

proud to an American AND a Marine..Semper Fi!

[@tracylarson1935]

Semper Fi Marine

[@hpa2005]

Thank you for your service

[@richardgordon8110]

Finest wid band in the world. PERIOD.

[@theoolifent9074]

RICHARD GORDON I think some of the British armed forces bands may have something to say about that. I played with the Central Band of the RAF and they were easily as good as these guys and the RAF isn’t even as good as the army or marines in terms of bands.

[@talismon63]

Theo Olifent I’m sorry but the President’s Own can play circles around the RAF and any British armed forces band you put up for comparison. Of course you’re free to share these recordings ..I’ve searched and can’t find any group compatible, not even close.

[@sarakneevers2789]

Who else is watching this I 2022?

[@colintraveller]

First Rate piece of music ..

[@hpa2005]

In the words of the animated character Strong Bad: "Now that's what I'm talking about!, that was amazing!"

[@stevencox1651]

When I hear this, I can see VMF-221 taking off for that last time to do something they had to know could not be done. But then, they were Marines...

[@hudsoncampos5976]

Bravo 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🌹🌹🌹

[@dennispersson9466]

I HATE, TO SAY IT, BUT, it Strikes ME, as being, an ADAPTATION, FROM THE "Patton, Movie, March!" Some passage parts went Upwards, with their notes, while "Patton's, went down, and Vice Versa, with the movie's going down, while this, want Higher! But I liked, Both!

[@EnemyAce88]

Love this march.

[@hippocratesathanasiadis2333]

ΜΠΡΑΒΟ ΜΠΡΑΒΟ ΜΠΡΑΒΟ....!!!!!!!!

[@christophneulinger5694]

THE LIITTLE ONES SUPPORT THE LITTLE AND BIG ONES. ALL NEARLY ALL SUPPORT ALL. THANKS TO HADAS MORAD. ❤ KAMIKAZE!

[@artigasgarcia6306]

Esos son Mis Hermanos Los Marines

[@miraclez7089]

I'm watching the marches for extra credit

[@joesensor4508]

under appreciated trombone work at 1:43

[@gabjisa]

There's a god of Snare Drum.

[@yoehonjohn4832]

Yep loved playing the snare in this song. In high school marching band we did this almost ever Veterans Day parade.

[@wyatt2287]

Epic

[@joanknight2713]

Amy Horn, are you in here? I think I see you!

[@Karlinberlin1]

March not much but what a band. What a conductor.

[@liamcarey1332]

ram it home girls ram it home

[@grumble2009]

Sounds great! Surprised to see the snare playing matched grip, but whatever :)

[@davidb.8948]

As opposed to what grip?

[@kevinreilly51]

@@davidb.8948 The traditional grip, wherein the left hand is palm up. It is arguably more formal, and it is particularly fitting for the snare in military bands due to their particular history (based on practicalities of early marching "harnesses" for snare which angled the drum slightly to the right).

[@davidb.8948]

@@kevinreilly51 yes, I know what traditional grip is. For me, I started off my first 15 years of drumming via Match Grip for both snare and set. It was all I was taught and knew, so I worked with it. It was when around 2007 when my drum teacher introduced me to French Grip and I never turned back. Huge improvement over Match Grip. Way more power and control, and I feel that it strongly rivals Traditional Grip any day as far as control/agility/playability. I can now say that Match Grip is for the birds.

[@davidb.8948]

@@kevinreilly51 I played Midway March last year with ease using French Grip.

[@brycemichel9745]

I was surprised at the matched grip as well. I cannot get used to it. I even use traditional on drum kit even though it is more cumbersome to move to different drums and whatnot. And I know that traditional is so illogical to use for any reason, unless you are playing a field drum slung over your shoulder. Old habits die hard, I guess...

[@samrowley6047]

👏👏Bravo!

[@markchan2970]

the trumpets all in one

[@markyale6953]

ps he also did the Olympic fanfare dating back to 1984 and played at many other Olympics

[@liamcarey560]

Ram it home girls ram it home

[@morskojvolk]

Midway, NMC greatest victory.

[@johnsmith1882-x2i]

0:25 clarinet adventure

[@johnsmith1882-x2i]

1:56 dat last rip run

[@tonybarde2572]

Getting intense Superhero Vibes Here

[@tracymiller1149]

I think it'd be fun to play in one of the armed services bands. Do you know if they have an age limit?

[@高木三樹-e3z]

As I mentioned the whole world before, Nichiren Daishonin, the Original Buddha of the latter age, or the days of 2000 years hereafter the Shakyamuni's passing, Counteracted the Mongol Empire's Attack and Occuapation of Japan by Very Fervent Daimoku Prayer! Namely, at that time, the Very Fierce Storm Generated and Mongol Army's Military ships were Sunk into the Sea! This is Definitely the so-called God Wind, or Kami-kaze, the Workings of the Guardian Deities for Buddhists who embrace the Lotus Sutra corectly, which protect them! In those days, Nichiren followers were just Minority in Japan. But Nichiren's Fervent Daimoku Invocation Summoned up the Very Powerful Protective Power of our Guardian Deities! And the Very Stupid Japanese Military Government of WWII days Miused this event by deceiving their people that God Wind would Never Fail to Blow for Japanese Troops and Attack US Troops Troops thoroughly and Smash them Completely with any G"roundless Reason"! It didn't Work at all,.........!

[@spencerlane2871]

December 7, 2024.

[@chandananimalsepala7825]

🇺🇸🎼🎧🎼🇺🇸

[@lawrencemyers3623]

A stirring tribute to the sailors, marines and airmen who fought in this epic battle in the early days of the Pacific War. And the only really good thing in an otherwise terrible movie.

[@billhuber2964]

The pacific war was one gut busting by god navy war !!!

[@srjiang4822]

This is amazing but I did catch one mistake. the french horns at 0:16 went a little bit sharp. I play french-horn part-time so i know this :)

[@AlexSDU]

May be it's just me, but it seem to me that this version slightly different from the movie's version that I used to listen to.

[@tracymiller1149]

It's because this is a much better and cleaner recording (because of the awesome musicians in this band) than the one from the movie soundtrack!

[@coloraturaElise]

Yes, the movie used orchestra, and this is concert band. There are differences in voicings, etc, and the tempo of the movie version is slower, as well.

[@lucassimmons3496]

I think it’s a recording technology difference the film version would sound splendid on this sound system

[@richardbale3278]

It has to be. As pointed out, this is a wind band, not an orchestra. Winds and brass have to double for the strings, etc. It's just different. My guess is that this was arranged by someone who really knows his business because, although John Williams is a composer of historical importance, wind band is not his usual instrument. Also, movie music is there to support the film, not the other way around, which is something that would have really irked someone like Beethovan.😊

[@AlexSDU]

@@richardbale3278I see. Thank you for the info. I don't know much about music. Learned it back in my primary school years, and the only musical instrument that I've learned were the recorder and the angklung. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angklung

[@高木三樹-e3z]

Correction Without Nichiren's Storng daimoku prayers, Japan would have, Without Doubt, BEEN Beated and Occupied by the Mongol.

[@evert3971]

3:17

[@Marth8880]

1:41 trombone murder

[@artigasgarcia6306]

Mi Esposa Angelin los Ama ja ja ja

[@高木三樹-e3z]

Correction Nichiren's Fervent daimoku prayers Generated the workings of the Guardian Deities for Correct Upholders of the Lotus Sutra. As a result, the Great Storm Occurred and the Mongl Empires Military Ships were sunk into the sea. Accordingly, Japan was Protected. Of course, there were Japanese Samurai Warriors Desperated battles though, it was Not Enough! The Mongol Empire's Armed Forces were Far Stronger than Japanese Samurai Warriors! Without Nichiren's Fervent Daimoku Prayers to Generate the Protective Power, Japan would have Conquered Perfectly........!

[@serwinzzalot9989]

More french horns!!

[@kees1705vanwely]

IJN Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu. Payback is a Bitch.

[@andoh01]

これ聞きながらWoWSやるといい感じ

[@frknntfrknnt4313]

🇺🇸💌

[@Kinopanorama1]

A decent performance, but it lacks a certain panache in our opinion. A bit more om-pah please.

[@yoehonjohn4832]

Need more cowbell. Band teacher would say that to the percussion section every time he wanted more sound.