The Austin Symphonic Band is nationally recognized as one of the finest ensembles of its type in the country, acclaimed by audiences at prestigious events including The Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra and Music Conference, and the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention. The ninety-plus members of ASB come from all walks of life and unite in a common passion for making music.
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Oh, a very nice band. Lots and lots of brass. It reminds me of my college band just brimming with brass. Oodles of trumpets and tubas! You can never have too much brass. I think Gustav Mahler would agree with me. 🙂
God’s Grandeur (1877) The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs - Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
I’m currently playing this for my spring concert, I’m in middle school. I play bass clarinet and I love that trumpet part so much and I’m kinda jealous. But I always love to play this. It absolutely beautiful.
y’know, when we first received this, i had the impression that we likely wouldn’t perform it. this is why i never realized how beautiful and musical this piece truly sounds, but i appreciate it now :) we have a number of weeks before the performance, and i just know i’ll have each part put together. :) (even those runs in Siciliano you can almost hear… TvT) - a clarinet player <3
im playing this song at a concert in three days. I have timpani and its going good but i keep missing beat 1 in certain parts and im nervous. wish me luck yall
I participated in a national high school wind band competition in Taiwan. It was evident that the team consistently delivering the best performance would emerge as the winner. During my year, I was aware that the leading team, who played exceptionally well, they played this piece, would likely secure the victory. Despite anticipating our defeat, I felt genuinely pleased and grateful to witness the beauty of their performance within this masterpiece in person. There's always tears and smile in my face when I listen to this.
I played this my freshman year of highschool, i’m a junior now and I can say without a doubt this is the most beautiful piece of music my bassoon has ever had the joy of playing.
We are doing this for my band I’m a freshman and I made the “good” band which is the wind ensemble so I honestly don’t know why we’re playing this piece 🤷🏼♀️😭but I play trombone. And the “good” band is really hard to make as a freshman lolz
This piece is really easy to play decently and insanely difficult to play amazingly. I’ve seen people cry in my wind ensemble from the siciliano played well enough.
Sure, the piece seems easy on the surface but music isn’t just being able to play it, there has to be emotion and depth to it or it just sounds boring and bland, like a good way to put emotion into your playing is trying to describe how the music sounds to to you and try to implant that, like siciliano to me sounds romantic, lush and almost nostalgic in a way or with Prelude to me it sounds like a British royal fanfare in a way. The only exception is if you’re playing some shit like Pageant by Vincent Persichetti I swear that man snorted a line before writing that piece
