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Originally Posted by Alex Yates  (Pssssssst, John....in the Wind Ensemble Reperptoire category I am big fan of this piece as well. We played it and these others in my high school wind ensemble and three summers in Governer's Honors wind ensembles. My band director, a gifted trombone player, took weeks to beat the 'swing' into the clarinets. LOL. That piece is sooooo much fun to play!) Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy and Colonial Song are big favorites too......but then I can't leave out the Holst Suites either. Soooo, I guess that makes me a major league nerd. I spent my high school days listening to Eastman Wind Ensemble recordings too.
(and I simply adore Four Scottish Dances by Sir Malcom Arnold! To this day I can't sit still when I hear that piece.) |
(pssst, Alex. The trick is to beat the swing into the clarinets in the schottische and to beat the swing OUT of the trumpets in the ragtime!) We played Four Scottish Dances at all-states last year. The horns were unreal in that first movement. The director had the whole horn section stand up and take a bow at the end. I had to sit behind them for the whole thing...