If you all look the conductor held up "40" at the beginning. If you look at the lower right corner band members were opened up to "37" The look on his face when he realized what the band did..priceless!!!
@@Dean_Machina American here, I've only ever heard them called conductors by people that don't know any better like little children and parent's who are forced to go to their child's performance. This is coming from over 8 years of experience in band.
@@lunchbox1553 At the college level, he doesn't make that decision. The production director, or whatever the title is, tells the director when to start and cut off through the headset he's wearing. The production director has a very similar job to a stage manager calling a play/musical in a college game of this scale. When and how much the band gets to play is predetermined and they tell the director to go. Specifics may vary depending on where you are, but the general way it all works stays the same.
I appreciate how together the band was, not only with the prank, but also actually following the director when he gave a signal to jump to a coda, a rehearsal mark, or wherever it was for that arrangement of 25 or 6 to 4.
So for any who don’t completely understand this prank, the song is 25 or 6 to 4, which is by the band Chicago. The university this band is from is Loyola University Chicago (LUC) so they decided to play one of Chicago, the band, most popular songs
@@6stringgunner511 yes!!!!! Oh man! The good ol days! 1 Friday night blizzard, next Friday a heat wave and bonfires in the parking lot! We used to throw hot hand warmers in the tuba and huddle around it! 🤣
One day my band director was waving his "wand" around for the song that we were playing and when we were going to hit a high note he swung his "wand" up and it his his papers that were on the podium and they went flying and hit a girl in the face😂😂
One time my band director went to go point at this guy with his baton and ended up snapping it in half and when we were doing our sight reading for a competition our assistant drum major was conducting with a concert baton and ended up throwing it at me when she counted four lol
When I had band practice for concert band one of directors was conducting like normal, Flutes.. He started waving the wand and let go and it flew into the flute section😂 He kept going and so one of the flute players grabbed it, As he kept going she started waving it until he took it away but the site was hilarious!
I assume this is their band's meme song, ours is Holiday (#26 in our book) We have a shirt that says "things only band kids understand," and for one of them it's legit just "26"
Yeah, ours would have made us stop and then made a scene so everyone in the audience would wonder 'What the hell is his problem?'. At one of our concerts he made us restart a song because somebody messed up.
'Chicago Transit Authority' is Classic. My first Concert in 1974. From Russia With Love 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Leonid & Friends сover) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9_torOTK5qc.html
I recognize that guy.... Mr Lowe! He was assistant band director for us at Lake Zurich High School back in 1999. Is this at Loyola University in Rogers Park?
Am I the only band kid here who has no idea what this song is? I can only assume the prank was playing a different song than what he called for but I've seen that 100 times
This song is called "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago. The framework of this song is just "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin, which was released 1 year earlier. The LZ song is absolutely ridiculous it is so good.
Our band pranks were taking the practice field tower down and putting into the band directors front yard all setup. Then to top it all off we would hike the back end of his car onto the sidewalk curb were he parked at the entrance to the school. That was a 8 inch rise and for a small car that already sat low to the ground it did cause a bit of damage to the rocker panels. We did stop doing the car prank after we learned about the damage and a couple of the auto body students made the repairs.
My marching band did this at one of our football games this season, we spent about five minutes just trying to plan and get everyone onboard without the director noticing. I think she cut us off on the third measure, but the look on her face was worth it
We did this in church. We all opened to different pages to play then gradually one at a time get “frustrated” by the cacaphony, throw our books in the air, stomp off stage until the only guy left was the tuba player who had been doing the A&W theme song and left with the Imperial March. Shocked music pastor couldn’t get it together again to lead the congregation. We would also play random Christmas music slowly and romantically during the preludes to see if anyone caught on.
