WING CONCERT 25th March 2013, 2-3 days Music from Les Miserables ♪ for Wind Orchestra Playing: Shijonawate Gakuen High School brass band www.lesmis.com/ This video, it is recommended that you use the headphones.
Each musician totally immersed in this beautifully played selection. My commendations to the conductor and to each and every band member. Every note was played with dedication, feeling and pride.
What a superb quality production, the orchestra-sized wind ensemble here really shows that they can do as much as an orchestra with strings! It's challenging co-ordingating a huge ensemble like this but an excellent conductor, practice and team work have prevailed here. Take a bow!
Wind orchestras actually sound quite better, cuz of the sound clarity, independence and strengt. Symphonic orchestra is like chill, enjoyable one and wind is like army - pleasant, motivative.
Thank God for RU-vid! It's wonderful to see and hear these students perform with such excellence.. And hat's off to the audio dept.. Instead of microphones in front of all most every instrument, they use a pair of mics above which allows the listener to hear the orchestra faithfully in the auditorium. I love listening with quality earphones too. Many thanks, Paul (from Spokane, Wasington)!
The difference in musicianship is the difference in the attitude of the Asian student vs the students in the USA. It is obvious the students have practiced a lot and mastered their instruments and are striving to do their best.
This is SO much better than that Bocook arrangement that everyone and their mom was playing when the 2012 film came out. "Drink With Me" in this version nearly brought me to tears T_T
There is actually another concert band version that is really good, it's from the original musical but the same music. No Stars though and it's not an arrangement by Bocook, I believe it might be Robert Lowden?
Wait, sorry Bob Lowden did a version based on the 2012 movie. However it's a decent arrangement closed to this one, just doesn't start with "Look Down". I'll find the other arrangement I was thinking of. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z-fZZbDRIGM.html
Aha! I'm thinking of the Warren Barker version, it's based on the original musical. It's a medley but a decent arrangement. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dtOK4etYaF8.html
This is outstanding, having played in a wind band alongside a good many ex military musicians, I am all too aware of the challenges of tuning for wind instruments, it is more often the saxes and clarinets that struggle. But this was near perfect and with so many so young, a tribute to a lot of hard work and a well led group. Very well done.
This is easily one of the best arrangements of Les Miserables. It's a shame this version isn't for orchestra, but it's a great Wind Band one nonetheless!!
Well here, perhaps grade 4/5's are learning hot cross buns for May be a week? We had award winning hands in public school, incredible music teacher.....we knew 4 scales within 2 months, memorized. Grade 5/6 split classes gave grade 5 kids the advantage to start band early too. My high school was also amazing! Fanatic programmes and well, Number 1 across North America when we competed in Boston....now this is in Canada where all we hear about is bloody hockey.....Huge support of the arts in my town when I was growing up though. I now play with military, concert bands and orchestras in a big city. We played Robert W.Smith's "Purgatorio" the year we got number 1......one of the last years when there wasn't this silly "competing against a standard...." As opposed to "winning"....anywho, I also taught Hot Cross Buns, but I start with the basics of music theory first.
+Crystal Mallory I'd be interested to now the name of your band. "Number 1 in North America" is a pretty bold statement. I'd encourage you search RU-vid for the term "TMEA Honor Band". You'll be introduced to some of the best bands in the State of Texas. Check out the Langham Creek recording....also take the time to listen to Coppell MIDDLE SCHOOL (12&13 year olds) playing the very challenging Circus Bee march. It'll blow you away.
Not a bold statement at all. I'm not in the states, I'm in Canada. My senior band (high school) actually won the classic music festival across North America. It's actually the truth, we went to Boston to compete. They talley the results across all of them (they are across Canada/US), at first we were in the top 10% but had to wait to find out until the last week of June, this was in 1998. Then my music teacher, Mr. Wayne McGrath got up on the stage on the last day of school, when we always had a school assembly in the morning and out he came with an award taller than himself! NUMBER 1! Small town, you won't find the recording on You Tube like so many thing are now.....how old were you in '97/98?
30 minutes of General Music is required *daily* from Year 1 to Year 6 in all public elementary schools. They're not allowed to study band instruments in those classes, but they still get quite a bit of other things done. Most Japanese kids who've NEVER been in band, choir or orchestra will enter the 7th grade knowing how to read a grand staff, knowing how to recite chromatic solfege in immovable 'Do', knowing how to play a chromatic scale on a recorder or melodica, and will have experience singing in at least 2 part harmony (as most school songs have 2-part harmony, and the entire student body is required to sing it). This puts them a good bit ahead of our band beginners in the States when they pick up their first instruments in 7th grade. After that 1st year of band they'll have spent more time with the horn on their face than our kids get in all of 3 years from grades 6 thru 8. And by the time they're in their final year of Junior High (grade 9) they'll be able to outplay most American HS seniors.
No, you do not suck and don't compare yourself to this band. It is different there where they spend hours and hours of practice.....better self discipline and commitment (meaning how here we end up with people who don't practice etc...). It's a different level of playing, I'm actually surprised they had music in front of them from some of the other videos I have seen.
@@hornalicious If you start band in kindergarten you have 4 hours a day every day accept holidays mandatory practice. When you play at that level you start to not enjoy music because it's all about increasing stamina range tone and you basically turn into a robot
@@Aruesx I'm not saying we should do band in kindergarten. The kids are too tiny! We start in grade 4 at my daughter's school but some grade 3s get to start early because there is a 3/4 split. My daughter is bugging her teachers to make sure she gets into that class because she wants to take trombone in school. Lol
Tears at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LOC_mtePqD4.htmlm43s. Beautifully executed...Reminds me of another moment ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RxPZh4AnWyk.htmlm15s where plucked from obscurity, a women (Susan Boyle) who I knew instantly had Asperger's Syndrome (only because my brother does too) and only revealed it years later, showed that a disability doesn't mean "disabled." I wish I could have been part of an ensemble like this when I was in High School.
Nevermind, I found the name of the song which I needed: Drink With Me. The list of the songs are: Look Down At The End of The Day I Dreamed A Dream Castle On a Cloud Master of the House Drink With Me Do You Hear The People Sing
+Cameron Smith The school band scene in Japan is awesome. The sheer number of kids playing on that stage would be amazing in itself over here. Makes one kind of jealous when considering one's kids prospects..
It's the level of self discipline there as well.....lack of commitment here is killing us all. There they are fully committed and work their arses off!
