GOULD American Salute - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band 

You'd rather have him use an English Cucumber?

Definitely

well, it is the marine band

Best band version. The original orchestral version by the Boston Pops under Fiedler is the definitive version of the piece.

Agreed.

As a fellow bass clarinetist, our band has 3 bassoons (fortunately or unfortunately)

Hah! We had a bassoon, me, a bass clarinet and a baritone sax. We were good and we got it in sync, but the sonority was so hellish the director made me play the top line of the trio as a solo. No pressure, guys . . .

I play the contrabass clarinet and i play the bass clarinet part and phew am i lucky not to play that bassoon part.

Same here

Word. I'm a freshman trombonist that just got this part yesterday. Have to have it memorized within 6 days. Absolutely not. Prayers to both of us.

My performance actually went quite well, after the first few times playing it and you start getting the hang of it it’s not that bad, you’re gonna do great dawg🔥

@@Chicken_Wang1 congratulations! I'm Marching it in a parade soon, so cheers to your success and my hope

@@wesleyjones3701 presumably the parade has passed. How did it go?

@@phillyphakename1255 it indeed has! It went surprisingly well.

O damn we playing this for UIL

As a flute, kinda yeah. Our version is dumbed down a bit, though

This is an absolute classic. I remember playing it 50 years ago in my high school band (first bassoon). It's not on the same order of art music as Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, which the Marines also play perfectly and with the most moving gravity -- but the American Salute is very quirky compositionally and lies in that gray area between pops music and a 20th century American art idiom that owes its soul to Copland. The Marine Band, as I said, has both the weight and the uncanny precision to give it this stirring and slightly insane rendering. I have not heard it often between back then and now. Listening to it fully 50 years since I have played it, something else is impressing me about it. There is a fever-dream quality to it in places, or so I imagine, that seems a response to a spirit of war and the fervor of patriotism mobilized to meet it. As it is, this work and Copland's fanfare were both composed in 1942, shortly after America entered WWII, as responses to the challenge. And of course the song the variations are based on in this piece is the quintessential Northern melody associated with the American Civil War, our own national historic nightmare. Just musing. This is December 6, 2016. We are into a new national experiment with uncertain prospects and a lot of trepidation. We have to pack up and bring our traditions, our art, our music, our lessons learned or forgotten. This piece, I think, will go into the satchel.

Hit this link. www.marineband.marines.mil/Portals/175/Docs/Audio/Educational_Series/FamilyAlbum/family_album.pdf

There is a connection between the Marine Band and the composer.

It’s made it all the way to 2022 I’m playing it with my band

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No cause this is the exact spot I needed😭

@@usaydally6770 I gotchuuuu

america bad

TimTheToolMan10 It’s not a sus chord. In the orchestral version, the Eb Chord is followed by an Emin Chord 3 measures in front of H. We just made this correction in the band arrangement we’re playing. It’s simple. Make all Ebs and Bbs natural three measures in front of H (except the last two pick up notes into H) and you’ve now got the orchestral version.

It could have been an error considering the limited time frame this piece was written in, but that’s unlikely

I believe the orchestral version was actually a transcription of the band version.

@@maxwellkowal3065 The orchestral version came first in 1942. Lang’s band transcription came several years later.

@@jeffgoblue I've already learned for the past few months now, but this comment was old amd I forgot about it