The finale to the performance of the 11/12 Symphonic Band at GMEA All-State Bands in Savannah, GA, as conducted by Samuel Hazo, who also composed the piece itself. A musical illustration of culture in the Middle-East .
My band director was on us for playing to loud 😔, but its a fun percussion piece to play, I played the bongosfor band the first time with this piece and was surprised that I had to use 4 different ones 😅 but I wish I was able to play like That and have fun
Actually, the flute is pretty easy once you get the hang of it...and once you get past being intimidated by all the keys! I'm a bit biased, though, considering it was the first instrument I learned (and have been playing for almost 10 years). The clarinet seems pretty hard, if only because of the reed business.
ive played clarinet for 2 years and im really good at it because to get a higher note you just use less fingers, and lower notes you use more fingers. Its pretty easy because your finger positions don't change as much
Holy cow. This may be the greatest performance of Arabesque that I have ever heard. Not only is Mr. Hazo himself conducting, but this symphonic band pulled it off extremely well. Congratulations to these amazing students. Mr. Hazo taught them well.
I played this for Honor Band my freshman year and I remember it being so amazing. Our director was kind of crazy too, so that also made it kind of hard to forget...;)
This piece is truly magnificent, in my opinion. The high school band I'm a part of is tackling this piece... One measure in the song is somewhat ridiculous: 48 thirty-second notes in a 6/8 time measure. But this performance was very impressive!
My band is going to play this for our next concert, and we're hopefully going to have a friend of mine bellydancing for it! I absolutely adore this song!
I played French horn in the band that Mr. Hazo originally wrote the piece for. I was in the first band to ever play this piece. I had never heard it anywhere else until now. This was a wonderful band. Thank you for sharing.
I go to RIT and we're playing this in concert band. I play first bassoon on this and I absolutely love it. At first glance it's a little intimidating but once you start playing it's so much fun
Gmea sight reads the pieces once they get to Savannah. No one knows what they will be playing until two days before the concert. This is why you cannot compare all state bands because they are all run so differently.
Go trumpets!! You guys sounded great at 3:26-3:43. This is a really hard song my high school band played this at our winter concert and we aren't even an honors band. We beasted but not like you guys did.
the is the best sounding trumpet section i've heard. gotta love georgia. i decided to try out this year. audition peaces are easy. i just don't feel like memorizing the scales.... oh well. tenor sax section here i come!!!
wow this peace rocks. I have to see if I can add this to the list for site reading and if it works out then I may use it at district this year.(student teaching at a performing arts high school)
Haha! You, too? I just got it today for second clarinet, and sight-reading it was....well, let's just say there was a whole lot of black i saw on that page.
Samuel R. Hazo is probably one of the best composers for concert band that I have ever known... By the way, about the instrumentation, I thought I heard something akin to a wardrum in the original recording... or is that just the grand casa and timpani?
