At my college, the director for our winds ensemble had them perform this at a concert. It was seriously amazing and my favorite piece they performed. I wanted to hear that rainy intro for rest of the concert LOL The way they snap to simulate rain dropping to the ground is so innovative. Currently doing a concert review on it and had to listen to this while I wrote it.
It was an honor to premiere this piece w/ the S Central NC District Honors Band, especially since like 2:30 of the Blue Knight's show this year is this piece. Trumpet gang!!
@@thephantasticfool The guy who wrote this for the Cadets also wrote this piece. He told us at the clinic that he wanted to create a whole piece centered around the musical ideas from the Cadets 2005 show. Since this follows a different musical arc and has more musical ideas, this is, by definition, a different piece. Stop ruining everyone's fun lmao
This is an awesome sounding piece! The 190 bpm and the use of the 6/4 time signature just really makes it sound so energetic! Super amazing job to the composer on this one!!!
Yes. It's a great introduction, but then there's no continuation of the idea later. It would be as if Beethoven opened the Fifth Symphony with those iconic four notes - da da da dum - and then never used the theme again in the entire symphony. Or if the main characters in your favorite TV show had a baby in the last episode of the season, but in the next season there's no baby and no explanation of what happened to it. When a composer introduces a non-traditional technique in a concert work, it's an exciting moment. If the snapping rain occurred halfway through the piece or near the end, it would enhance the climax of the composition. But when the composer opens with that, as if to say, "hey, we're doing something new and different and out of the ordinary, and it sounds cool," then it gets my attention, and I'm on the edge of my seat the hear the music lead into an even more exciting and innovative non-traditional effect, perhaps to illustrate another "Liquid" form besides rain. And I keep listening and waiting, but nothing. I can't even pay attention to the rest of the writing, because I just know it's going to lead into some cool special effect -maybe it's going to be a Waterphone or smashing glass or something vocal. But nothing ever happens, and it's a big letdown. As if the original Star Wars trilogy opened with a lightsaber fight, the death of the Emporer and Vader, and then just three movies of the heroes hanging out in Ewok Village. This piece of music is a big let down.
