Hey Dustin, my great Grandmother came from the Ammerländerhof greater farm from North-west Germany near Oldenburg....great that you even remember your ancestors in that way ! Sending you a familiar hello!
My trumpet teacher and brass section conductor passed away today, and this is the last composition we played together in our brass band. I cry and am so sad when listening to this. May he rest in peace...
STORY TIME: i played euphonium for this for festival my senior year. i was the only euph in our band and every time we played it my director asked for more of me and every time i felt like i was gonna pass out. anyways so we played festival which was hosted at our school and we did amazing and the student teacher that had been working with us during marching season came up to me as we were packing up and said "damn krystal" in like the ooh-damn-sis-pop-off kind of tone and that's the greatest compliment i've ever received. but yeah that was the last ballad i've ever played because we went on spring break and never went back to school because of corona. i never got my senior year spring concert, so that makes festival even more special to me. i didn't know it would be my last high school performance, but i played like it was my last performance ever because of my director pushing me. if there's a takeaway from this long and stupid story, it's to always play like it's your last performance. i suspect that most of the people here are band kids, so please. don't take any moment for granted, because it could be stripped away from you in a second. but yeah anyways just listening to this song makes me feel out of breath and i get flashbacks to not being allowed to breathe because i was the only euph ayeeee 👉😎👉
I am in 8th grade and I played second trumpet in this in October. the notes are fairly easy, but in order to play the song well, your musical phrasing and musicality in general has to be very well done. When ever I listen to this it makes me miss that concert a lot and it makes me feel good about being in the band I'm in. Very intense song...
My father is grandson to a woman from Ammerländer hof huge farming ground in Goldersted near Oldenburg city. He was playing the trumpet & fanfare at early age and as leading director of the boys corps Fanfare Youth brass instruments group up onto the Loreley Rock above the river Rhine. He had inhaled that rising above all with music even after he as nearly to death at the early age of 21 at Stalingrad and music always was the refuge of his heart & soul. Taught by all generations by mothers & grandmothers my Dear Mia Rogers & friends!
enderboss SR71 I agree that As are easy, but I’m not sure about that double G 🤨 I could see you doing it, but I’m doubting that register sounds any good
This almost made me cry in band. It was the first day and we were reading through it and I have 30 measures of rest in the beginning and even though we had just begun it I almost cried
When the trumpets and flutes come in, the sound is so difficult to describe, I haven't heard anyone play it right including myself, besides from this recording of course
Chord at the end with lows always gives me chills I remember playing this piece in high school as euphonium. I relive it every time I listen. Beautiful
My band is really small (15 players total, we're still trying to build the program back up after the previous director left) so when we played this I was the only 1st trumpet and with that part being such a chop blower it was a lot of pressure but omg... we still got gold @ competition even with our small composition, I'm so proud of our band :D
I am an alto player in my high school band but I am playing tenor for this song. We have festival coming up and unfortunately I tear up every time I play or hear it. Such a beautiful song.
All The Trash flute is very painful trust me. the high note are not that high bu enough to make your lips burn for an hour. i play flute but the real instrument stuggle is trombone.
Joseph Stalin The trumpet part isn’t hard tho. The highest note we play is an A and it only shows up on two occasions. Just keep your breath intake in kind
I am in 9th grade and hearing this song makes me remember all the good memories I had at my band in middle school. This song is relaxing and sad at the same time. I played Clarinet 1! I miss middle school but yk life continues... 🙂😭
We played this for a member of our band that we lost to a car accident. This song holds a lot of meaning to me. So yes, our band cries a lot everytime this is played🥺
No kidding... at concert I was glad this piece was the second we played because it gave me one piece to warm up without being at the end with my lips already blown out
I got the play the Tuba part on Bari Sax and i cried as well. Such a beautiful song. The Euphonium and French Horn call and response is just incredible, so emotional.
@@nicksoulos5139 ME TOO MAN! I was looking forward to that concert so much. I loved every song my band was playing. We were also going to play a song called winterwinds, which was absolute madness but we were going to do so good... ; - ;
I know that for some people, the high G in particular is quite easy to hit, myself included, but for some the note is well out of their range. So as a fellow flutist, we can encourage them and give them advice on how to improve.
my band teacher just made all the flutes in my class play the oboe part, same notes and all but an octave lower. it makes us sound so much better because we were kinda really loud when we played the high notes hahah
I wouldn't have done that, at least not with every player. The high notes are important to the musical texture. The *real* challenge is keeping flutes in tune when playing that high
This is the one piece I vividly remember playing is HS concert band. I played tenor sax, and having the main melody in the opening section with all the countermelodies throughout the piece made this very memorable. Tone was everything.
Played this music my junior year of High School for All-County Band and it has so much emotion I cried and I keep listening to it to this day, Speaking as a Tuba Player.
Playing this in my high school concert band, as 3rd chair Tenor Sax (Probably should have been 2nd, but as a tenor it's just a number) and the tenor melody is amazing
hey everyone! i'm playing flute on this piece at my next concert this year. my airstream is literally dying every time and i have to breathe a ton more than i usually do (high Gs...a lot of em) lol. but it's really pretty and so worth it!
Just played Ammerland at my last high school band concert. It was our only concert at all this year because of covid stuff. Played first trumpet on this bad boy 🥺🥺
I love this piece my band director has been waiting for a group that she thinks could play this for state festival (I'm in middle school) and frankly I'm so scared but I'm hoping it'll be worth it. I might end up yelling at the tenors tho.
This is an amazing and beautiful piece indeed. My school's wind ensemble is playing this price for our next concert. I play the euphonium and love this piece.
I play the Tuba/String bass part on this song in my Violin bass and while very simple, it lets me enjoy and listen to the beautiful melody everyone´s playing at the orchestra. It´s a very emotional song and easy to put your heart into the nuances of your playing.
It is easy to play but a challenge to transmit the right emotions. You have to put all your heart and feelings in it. Even before my part on the flute begins I must concentrate to start crying...
I’ve been playing trumpet since 6th grade and I’m going into 10th and out of the years of playing this song definitely takes the top it just has so much emotion.
My dear friend lost most of her squadron in a roadside bombing, she plays flute and was hired to play this. The beginning, the minor key, the conductor told the band to think of someone they lost and they with they could say goodbye to. She told me that after that she played this with them in her heart. The major section reminds her that they're all in a better place now.
Great memories of this piece. Played it in my high school symphonic band as a backup piece for a concert. One day our band director did an exercise where he told us, 3 tubas, that we were responsible for setting the dynamic levels during the piece. Yeah yeah, that is what you are supposed to do anyways, but he told us to bring the dynamics up a few notches and that everyone else would have to match our sound and intensity. Lots of fun adjusting piano to forte and, if you can imagine, the fortissimo up a few steps.
Got to play this in Germany, what an amazing experience. We were kind of tired from traveling around and probably didn't perform this well, but meh. It was still awesome.
We played this for our Symphonic Band II concert today. This peace really is beautiful. I'mma mention that I'a a 1st Alto Sax cuz everyone in the comments is mentioning their instruments :P
+Big Mach (bjaminer) This is not difficult music - you must just put your mind to it! The music should be felt before it is played, and then it is much easier. I love De Haan's music. Especially this piece. However, in my opinion, the piece is played way too fast in this recording. I would have loved to hear the lines played more intensely and legato-like. A more mysterious piano and a more triumphant forte would make this recording a winner.
+Big Mach (bjaminer) Just wanted to mention also, it is not from ignorance that I said this music is not difficult. I know all the trumpet parts by heart, and so also a great portion of the full score. I've performed this with numerous orchestras.
+Carel J. Wright for this song I know the trombone by heart but can also fill the horn part if needed witch I had to do one year. I still sat in trombone section just had a F horn part to help them sound louder
