Mars & Jupiter from "The Planets suite" : Inagakuen Wind Orchestra 

takigan I don’t know that they’re “horribly scared” or anything. Just that’s how to succeed and/or get into good schools here is to be technically as perfect as possible. I’m from North America but live in Japan and am in band here. It’s the same. Their chords are perfectly in tune with a tuner even when it should probably be done by ear. It’s not wrong, just different from how we do it in the West.

Yes! This! The dynamics need to be improved.

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I was thinking exactly this - the dynamics are not quite right.

+Jerry Berglund Band is considered a very girly activity in japanese schools in the same way cheerleading is considered girly in america, and a lot of wind bands are almost entirely female because of that.

I think it has to do the the arrangement. I don't know why they didn't play the Holst arranged version for band.

Bigalow45 theres lots of "in sync" moments i noticed how all the mutes are in the aame order and all of their feet are put together facing fowards

Can you name one that performed at the level of the 2nd J.H.S. Koriyama "band", even though it was written for strings, not woodwinds. Nevertheless, these junior high kids performed at an exceptional level.

Holst originally wrote for two timpanists. Uranus also calls for two timpanists. He personally transcribed Mars for band and in the process, condensed the timp part for one person. I've played both his own band version of Mars (taken down a step from G to F btw) as well as the entire orchestral version.

Summer Honey Can't hear it though

Billy Lim which detracts the affect. It's supposed to be dramatic. The tam tam induces this affect

deltatango There's not a HS band in the US playing a this level.

+Karl O There are few college band's in the US playing at this level ⚆ _ ⚆

+Karl O Stillwater Area High School gets to this level! We beat college bands all over the US.

***** Stillwater Area High School Concert Wind Symphony....

James - proud of your school, but.....

True but that andante section in Jupiter was mediocre at best. I played both movements in high school [trumpet] and it pained me to see the brass section "gasp" during the crescendo at 12:55. I know it's common to breathe at the end of a phrase but you need to power through when you crescendo into the next phrase. There is a reason there is an accented staccato shortly after the crescendo which is where you are supposed to breathe.

+maxpowr90 same goes for 1st violin in my orchestra, its difficult

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