Which band piece most represents you and why?
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Which band piece most represents you and why?
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@gordon
Fairly Easy!
Several choices...My 1st music choice is "Selections from The Nightmare before Christmas (written D. Elfman/arranged M.Brown). I love any Danny's movies (Men in Black, Corpse Bride etc.) and has scored many Tim Burton's works.
As it was said by Ministry (music group) "Every day is Halloween"...My 2nd music choice is would be "Strike up the Band (arr. E. Ford). I believe that most of us (BTTB Alumni, that is) could still play this from memory!
Lastly, the piece which I gave to the band "Canada on the March" which was commissioned by CAF Central Band for Canada's 100 birthday!
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Not sure it represents me but for every conductor this band ever had (possible exception of Zoltan) I have played one of the solo parts of Bugler's Holiday. Possibly having cut my teeth on marches I was a natural selection to do this.
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@wjerome I have already had a request to do this standard. It is always a favourite for the audience, especially when it is played well. I am looking forward to programming it, hopefully sooner than later.
Maybe we can play it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypTXa8JFqU
or we can have the whole section play it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkYcKfqFNmM -
We have it in our BCB library, but have not played it yet. It encompasses all the great iconic work done by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexander Desplat.
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@joanner never played it quite that fast but one time with Darryl Eaton on lead we came close!
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It took a bit of thought but it turned out that Kenneth Alford's Colonial Bogey is the piece.
It was a favourite route march years ago. I played 3rd trombone and loved the deep sounds of determination played by the low brass in the middle of the piece. It spoke to me. -
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Percy Grainger's Londonderry Air. I've always thought the trombone was a very beautiful sounding instrument, but not many composer/arrangers can write in a way that make it so. Grainger does this for this piece. It is a deceptively difficult piece that requires intent listening, but if done right, gives the trombone's a chance to be beautiful.
