Mackey: Wine-Dark Sea

[@braedenL29221]

that moment when you notice your highschool band director playing clarinet at the world premiere of wine dark sea years after you graduated

[@chipsnsiracha6829]

I really wish John Mackey would learn an instrument so he would understand how hard his pieces really are.

[@quanhoangclarinettist6225]

*Cries in First Clarinet*

[@charliezhang3050]

@@quanhoangclarinettist6225 cries in easy third clarinet part

[@katieknutson7018]

Cries in earthquake-inducing contrabass clarinet part

[@alphax101-gaming2]

Laughs in percussion

[@davideanes3425]

Laughs in trombone glissandi

[@the0elite]

Jesus John Mackey makes some crazy Ass music

[@MarkHaKa1]

You have his name wrong. It is John Mackey.

[@ShockzG5]

@@MarkHaKa1 what

[@mashinmello3851]

@@ShockzG5I think they were implying the person was calling John Mackey “Jesus John Mackey”

[@C_Trlak7]

How are there no comments on how phenomenal this percussion section is?!?!

[@kentbaker9247]

Absolutely! The percussion section was very tight. Awesome!

[@bartholomewthundercatiii3484]

I don't think I've seen a composer give more love to the percussion section than John Mackey.

[@averyjones6996]

Bartholomew Thundercat III Tichelli does a good job as well

[@connorutegg2486]

Chris Trlak Pretty much all of Mackey’s music has a phenomenal percussion section.

[@lemonswounge2930]

maslanka...in some cases

[@tristanshepard8077]

i have never been more angry than when an ad just POPPED UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FINALE LIKE THE LAST 20 SECONDS AAAA

[@zoran.rosendahl]

Adblock dude

[@KingBjornIronside]

I. Hubris: 0:00 II. Immortal thread, so weak: 10:42 III. The attentions of souls: 21:47

[@yrockerboy]

Why isn’t this higher up

[@ltxcloud3892]

THANK YOU SO MUCH IM DOING THIS FOR AN ASSIGMENT AND THIS SAVED ME

[@TrumpetBozo]

Thank you 8 years later 😊

[@KingBjornIronside]

@@TrumpetBozo No worries, From 8 years ago 😸🎺

[@TrumpetBozo]

YOOOOOO

[@TheJamesinator102]

This piece contributes to my belief that John Mackey is the best wind composer alive. Come on. This is a huge contribution to wind repertoire in addition to his other pieces.

[@tannerjordan2010]

Corigliano, anyone?

[@TheJamesinator102]

Looks to me like Corigliano mainly composes orchestral works. It's not really my thing for the most part.

[@JFroTheMusician]

Certainly one of the best in the early 21st century! A modern day Holst one may say.

[@baq12]

While I do like Mackey's style of composition since it does appeal to a large variety of people, I wouldn't consider him to be the "best". Some of his music tends to sound the same at times (if we look at pieces like Asphalt Cocktail, Turbine, Highwire, Night on Fire, just to name a few), and its the same thing when we talk about Frank Ticheli's music. However, Mackey's wine dark symphony along with Strange Humors, Redline Tango, Kingfishers Catch Fire, and Hymn to a Blue Hour are some of his finer works in my opinion, and set him out of the norm of a lot of band composers, although I wouldn't put him as the best. If I had to consider the best modern day composers for band around, I would bring up people such as David Maslanka, Joseph Schwantner, Franco Cesarini, and even Ron Nelson as some of the best composers for band in this modern day.

[@CapriceBozza80]

baq12 Agreed. Unfortunately, the band world still needs more composers on the caliber of John Adams or Steven Stucky writing for winds.

[@jameswginn]

The final movement is really something special.

[@emilyberry1617]

We're playing this cruel moon for our spring concert and it feels so emotional and vulnerable to play it and I love that.

[@Yes13245]

We have to play an alternate version of this cruel moon for our marching show this year, it sounds so beautiful

[@sambitious]

17:42. Them clarinets, man. Give me chills every time.

[@alexplayspiano94]

The last 3 minutes are just RAW as hell. Every time I listen to it I'm just overflowed with emotions I can't even explain. Such power and raw energy... Absolutely amazing.

[@aunyastevens3249]

Alex Thode YES BRO. THEY ALWAYS HAVE ME PUMPED.

[@kironsyt5247]

No way I found you! Are you the real Alex Thode who wrote our show urban Playground?

[@L0Ldude11]

LOOK AT MACKEY RUN UP AND HUG THEM! GOD HE'S SO AWESOME!!!!!!

[@austinpowers5289]

The contrabass clarinet just right in the middle! love it!

[@Clarinet69]

And he sounds damn good

[@benblessing5150]

It didn't even sound like concert band, like straight out of a movie soundtrack. Really amazing colors.

[@moonlightislit3033]

No matter how many times I listen to it, the second movement gives me chills. Every. Single. Time.

[@opsarion27]

Omg yes

[@aunyastevens3249]

Makes me cry every time 😂

[@Finetales]

25:46 OMG. Trombone porn to the highest degree. The conducting makes it that much more awesome.

[@ginogamboni689]

i guess thats one way to say it

[@charleyhibschweiler4555]

Listen to the CSO recording of the Shosty 7 finale

[@blu3620]

What the f is trombone por*

[@MeMyselfI__]

@@blu3620So when two Trombones touch the ends of their slides and-

[@TheNaper]

The conductors moves at 25:45 always get me. 🤣 And also really like the clarinet solo in movement III

[@Zenkai251]

Here's when each movement begins: Movement I: 0:12 Movement II: 10:41 Movement III: 21:44

[@Andyloveswood]

The subtitles on the screen sort of give it away.

[@Zenkai251]

Andy Bennett But why waste your time trying to locate seconds-long subtitles in a 30 minute video if you want to watch a certain movement when I have the times linked?

[@ashtyngrace7023]

this comment really helped me with my band homework lol

[@bradleyhawkins4986]

Awesomeness. Huge leap forward for wind repertoire.

[@leroyosmon]

Could you explain? I would be very interested in your thoughts related to your statement.

[@matthewhurtado5448]

leroyosmon Whats to explain? It's good shit

[@terrillshepherd]

Dr. Junkin is an amazing conductor. He did a wonderful job.

[@emilydebner7384]

I love Junkin's conducting! (Especially in that 3rd movement!) :)

[@TheMusicBrewer]

The orchestration in the middle movement is SO good, and it's made even better by an ensemble as tight as this one. How can your heart not be in your throat the whole time?!

[@Kiarinadia]

Sensational Symphony ! And that passage at beginning of 3d mvt totaly different from the rhythmic energy of the rest is so mysterious...

[@destinygonzales7900]

I plan to play this piece before I die. I HAVE to. This is one, if not the most, respected song I have for Mackey. So incredibly intricate yet beautiful, full of energy and very sweet moments. I love every single moment of this piece, especially with such a phenomenal wind ensemble as UTA performing it.

[@UnknownSpooky]

It took me way too long to realize that the rhythm the percussion introduces at 7:24 is morse code for SOS...

[@L0Ldude11]

NO WAY

[@coltranesaxIV]

RandomCraftStudio WHAAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?! It really is!!!!!

[@brokencablemusic]

That changed my entire view on this piece

[@kid_fi3nd98]

That's about when Odeysseus got lost and was about to wash up on Kalypso's island.

[@UnknownSpooky]

The rhythm of the percussion and the rhythm of the code are equivalent. At least in the tam-tam part.

[@noisybran]

I can't believe we recorded this - f i v e - years ago... time flies!

[@cobaltstudios935]

What instrument did you play?

[@fireboar2433]

Cobalt Insurgency hey, i’m gonna reply for you, he plays bassoon

[@cobaltstudios935]

@@fireboar2433 Nice. Additional question: Do you know who says "yeah" really quietly at the end of the 3rd movement in the recording of this from this band? I don't know if it's in the video, but I heard it while listening to it on Apple Music

[@gladismorales806]

Cobalt Insurgency I’m on my mom’s account right now, though, I have to say that I have not heard the “Yeah” and I do not have Apple Music, so I didnt here it there either.

[@cobaltstudios935]

@@gladismorales806 It's very faint and in the very last second of the recording. But if you don't know, you don't know. It's alright. Some mysteries just go unsolved.

[@DevAndDad]

This was very intense live. I could almost see a wall of sound at the end of the third movement! So good to get to hear it again!

[@IsaiahWu]

I heard it live with the Ohio State University wind symphony! SO AMAZING

[@ChoLfINz]

Movement 2 is so beautiful. So much emotion and musicality. I fall in love every single time I hear it.

[@RussellEvans19891]

28:09 i need more!!! The clarinets raising their bells to the heavens summoning the gods

[@myelin-sheath]

the musicians look so happy when theyre done ahhh i love it

[@Drego642]

"Wine-dark" also describes my sadness seeing all those empty seats.

[@Dog-lg5ju]

Might've just been a rehearsal or something

[@BCl137]

I believe it was an open dress rehearsal

[@acaciasterling6125]

Drego642 Actually most sat farther behind because of how loud they can get haha

[@coloraturaElise]

Recording session, not open to the general public, despite the applause you hear at the end....all invited guests.

[@mikelcomposition]

It was a judging competition.

[@gregt2022]

the audience of 12 roared their approval at the end... would go to hear this band at every chance

[@caseyspring]

Lots of very clever writing. Great piece played by a terrific band.

[@eenergabeener]

I can't hear anything over the sound of how awesome this piece is. John Mackey is amazing!!!

[@BetterOffGravity]

Haven't cried this hard at a piece of music in a while, Mackey and this phenomenal group deserve major props

[@L0Ldude11]

Agreed! Which part got you?

[@BetterOffGravity]

The bit at minute 18 is absolutely gorgeous in my opinion

[@L0Ldude11]

Absolutely, especially the dissonance leading into the forte. It gives me chills almost every time I listen to it.

[@forfeittrain1012]

My marching band used the third movement in our show last year, I love wine dark sea and am only just now listening to the full thing and it is so good!

[@BaritoneSaxKing]

OH MY FREAKING GOSH. Way to blow my mind Mr. Mackey! You never cease to amaze me, and inspire me. One of the best pieces I've EVER had the fortune of listening to! Love that Bass Woodwind line at 28:23!!

[@noisybran]

It was *so* much fun to play!

[@beansama]

if you're a low brass player you know 25:45 hypes you up

[@dreamerofvocaloids]

If, after playing the third movement, you feel like you're starting to lose hearing in one or both ears, you've done it right.

[@MrIplaysax]

God, the climax of Movement II is so heartbreaking. I can barely listen to the second movement without crying. Such beautiful, haunting music.

[@PbOscar6]

I miss playing my Trombone and when i hear music like this. It just brings back the wonderful 10 years i dedicated to mastering that art. it has been 6 years since i last played but I hope to get back into a join a Symphony and get back to enjoying this art.

[@oingoboingo99]

So glad I got to see this premiered at TMEA 2014. Ingenious writing by the brilliant John Mackey and phenomenal performance by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble. Simply phenomenal.

[@MrSoxfan014]

I instantly fell in love with this piece when I heard it.

[@march.7561]

Very few other pieces have given me chills like this piece does.

[@azsxw2]

what i would give to play in a full wind band again.

[@dawnkinster]

Lots of really good Community bands around...bet there's one near you.

[@廖先生-r1v]

29:15 xylophonist：hold my beer

[@ngjjoel03]

Sounds like the Rite of Spring of wind band music, masterful interpretation ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@camcamelziploc]

my honor band is playing a Mackey song called until the scars which is a part of hubris (the first movement of wine dark sea) and the rhythms and entrances are extremely confusing but it’s SUCH a cool piece

[@Sky-gd7cw]

I played until the scars back when I was in college and our concert where we played that piece was in March 2020 just days before the university announced that it was closing and going remote. Looking back, I can’t imagine the feelings I would have felt if with rehearsing and preparing that piece for months and our concert was cancelled. I loved playing until the scars, I hope one day I’ll get the opportunity to play the full wine dark sea symphony it sounds really really challenging but really fun to play.

[@natanaelcalero371]

Man, what I would give to play this piece once in my life. As a trumpet player, this piece is amazing and perfectly plays to all instruments. Mackey truly is an amazing composer!

[@phantomgames5404]

before i heard this undertow was my fav john mackey song. now this is my current fav!

[@dawson4218]

This is good, yeah, but have you heard Aurora Awakes?

[@phantomgames5404]

+Dawson Bell ya I've listened to it. btw this is old :P

[@dawson4218]

+phantom games (phantomgamingmc) oh. Didn't see that.

[@paulhaggett3138]

I play in a non-audition community band. We played Undertow, and played it pretty well, but I haven’t heard any other Mackey composition we could touch.

[@lanemyers426]

A masterpiece of a composition paired with the world's finest musicians? This performance is legendary.

[@connorutegg2486]

You just kept a 14 year old boys attention for half an hour, and very well I’ll add. Damn good job!

[@mecha5893]

Movement 3 is just Lightning Field on bath salts

[@andrewprawat8199]

Actually lightning field was made after this, so it’s like movement 3 smoked some weed and took a load off and then you got lightning field

[@jacobzufall3356]

He wrote lightning field after, like he wrote this cruel look after too. They’re just adaptions so when you play them out of context they make sense.

[@bruhemianbobbert7136]

Movement 3 of this piece is what our 3rd movement in our marching show is based off of

[@DCdabest]

If you can't imagine a thousand triremes rowing across the Aegean to this, you need to get yourself checked out.

[@jefftyler2349]

Absolutely amazing and the mallet percussion is out of this world.

[@bw4l]

16:35 one trumpeter seems to have lost his hair, and the other has more than enough for them both

[@annadent4288]

The horns give me chills!

[@制限回避]

00:14 第1楽章 10:41 第2楽章 21:49 第3楽章

[@devonmitchell6467]

Sweet baby Jesus.... That last chord.

[@L0Ldude11]

Fucking ending a symphony on a power chord. Gotta love Mackey.

[@L0Ldude11]

+Blue correction: it's just an f major but the A is drowned out but I totally agree with you man

[@bartholomewthundercatiii3484]

I have yet to hear an ending chord better than that one.

[@Arjun-jq1wx]

Aurora Awakes, with the screeching high madness. in John Mackey's own words "a damn bright chord"

[@richy77]

0:14 - Mvt 1: Hubris 10:42 - Mvt 2: Immortal Thread, So Weak 21:55 - Mvt 3: The Attentions of Souls

[@paulhaggett3138]

How is this possible? Simply remarkable start to finish!

[@superbfruitpigeon]

I played this piece at Towson last year and oh boy I still get teary eyed over the incredible second movement!

[@christristan5502]

Jerry Junkin's conducting is so amazing, sad he didn't conduct one of our pieces when me and my band got to have a clinic with him ;(

[@matthewhurtado5448]

Just thrilling music...love every second of it-especially the second movement!!!!

[@wafizainal7449]

In 2020 I performed this Masterwork with the WAAPA Symphonic Wind Ensemble for a Halloween Concert (dressed up!) inside the Perth Concert Hall. In the time I've played with WAAPA SWE this piece, Maslanka's 4th Symphony, and Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy are the toughest pieces we've performed. To give you an idea, I've played in the ensemble since 2008 (and still part of it) - Back then we couldn't play Holst's Hammersmith. For our upcoming Halloween concert we're playing De Meij's 1st Symphony, a piece I'm yet to perform.

[@gazelle2263]

I'm so in love with movement 2. John Mackey bless you

[@aaronterrell633]

+gazelle2263 same

[@thitherorpheus7315]

I was at a band camp in Texas and we actually Skyped the composer during rehearsal. He said the second movement was written for or his wife.

[@thitherorpheus7315]

Nice.

[@grahamnordquist8874]

You know, Mackey just came out with a piece titled "This Cruel Moon," which is based off the second movement of this

[@jacklichlyter8093]

My marching band's show this year is based off this! It's so amazing

[@TheNaper]

What was the show called?

[@root_Nep2ne]

29:26 is the chord you all came for

[@kimthornewell]

Playing this on Saturday with Maidstone Wind Symphony. Took a while for it to grow on me, but really like it now!

[@declangreen3146]

28:08 watch clarinets

[@akarikuribayashi]

I played in my second year of high school.I loved the 2nd movement and I cried while playing the harp.It's my youth.

[@Hector95100]

Love all these new videos! keep posting them! UT wind ensemble is always the best

[@drewshannon5465]

25:54 when he says bum bum bum bum 😂

[@alphax101-gaming2]

LOOLLL just realized he was saying that!!!!!

[@wojtek9172]

I let out a load every time the solo clarinet does his crescendos and decrescendos. Magnificent

[@RichardTolbert]

I want to be a student musician playing with this group when I grow up...

[@leroyosmon]

Outstanding ensemble and conductor! Always a pleasure to hear the UT Wind Ensemble.

[@NathanOstMusic]

7:31, the horns are so badass

[@-NGC-6302-]

"Choir is better than band" Alright then, let's see a bunch of instrumentless people replicate 27:48 and onwards with the same impact. The whole piece, for that matter. Absolutely phenomenal performance.

[@adelinaarmstrong9423]

nobody said that, take a deep breath buddy

[@perezgarridomusic]

Mackey always composes surprising music

[@Soccerdiva10Baby]

When my band plays this piece, we all go crazy. What I don't understand is how the audience can just sit there calmly!

[@DenversMac]

Well the three people in the front of the concert hall (that you see through whole video) are all UT Austin employees. One is department chair and two professors.

[@spencer3048]

Cadets 2016 begins @23:40 in case anyone is wondering

[@spencer3048]

+Crossing White Yes, it's their closer I believe. Check out the videos from the last camp on Facebook, there's a recording of it on George Hopkins' page.

[@jacobchris356]

+Crossing White na..there opener is pines of rome.

[@dadmakesbadmovies]

+Spencer Perrine Thank you. Precisely why I sussed this out.

[@UnusualDean14]

+Spencer Perrine Thanks! I've been too busy to find it.

[@markyochoa]

+Spencer Perrine Oh shit really? Gonna keep an eye out for Cadets then.

[@aysiawrites232]

So excited to play this at Interlochen his summer. I'll be able to die knowing I live life to the fullest I love this freaking piece 😩😩😍😍😍😍

[@tmra2ree]

I've played several of Mackey's pieces with the Colorado Wind Ensemble. Are they hard? Yes. Worth the experience? YES.

[@takinoborudesu]

OH MY GOD THE PERCUSSION ARE PLAYING MORSE CODE

[@gametheus1306]

This piece makes me feel like a vulnerable god

[@adutiiler9]

Somehow, this piece for stuck in my head for months... Too awesome to care.

[@user-ze1qd6vq8y]

高校生の演奏も良いけどやっぱりプロは落ち着いてて良き。

[@windsofnagual]

。おさしみ 音大生だからプロじゃないけどセミプロみたいなもんだよね。

[@maddiechoi]

What an incredible piece and a really moving performance!!!

[@ClubNBH]

30:11 GIVE THOSE DAMN TUBAS AN AWARD!!!

[@fireboar2433]

basically i’ve heard mvt 1 like 100 times, mvt 2 like only 2 times, and mvt 3 like 50 times

[@muskattomm]

Unbeliveable!! This is a Masterpiece!

[@jpdemers44]

A masterpiece that will stay in the repertoire bravo to eeryone

[@esmailkhalili7149]

I prefer this recording to the studio record the UT wind ensemble recorded. This performance is just much more raw and powerful.

[@leworthin]

Amazing and wonderful! What else can I say? Wow! (Well, I guess I CAN say something else....) Wow!

[@kalebean97]

That second movement... :D wow

[@graeme011]

The placement of an ad right before the end is totally DESPICABLE!!!

[@harveyknguyen]

dude just get an adblocker

[@Camelwrestler]

That conductor 's got some mad stage-mastery, digging the moves man.

[@pfed-c6b]

I'll be playing this in my college wind band soon! I can't wait!!

[@JamieSmith-fz2mz]

KZbin, you are awesome for putting a commercial break right at the 30-minute mark. It's like you knew that was when my attention was peaking. Bravo. Idiots.

[@terrillshepherd]

This is an amazing piece.

[@brechtschotte2341]

trumpets at 29:07 , can't help hearing Requiem for a dream, anyone else?

[@adelinaarmstrong9423]

god i love this second mvt so much......