As my orchestra class continues to practice this piece, I have a few critiques to say as I compare my experience with this. Maybe the piano parts are played a tad too loud in the violin section? The reason I think this is, when rehearsing, we were playing the usual way we do when the dynamic is piano, but our teacher told us to play even quieter. I noticed then that playing quieter in the piano sections made the forte sections pop out even more! Another thing I have to say is that at times around the middle of the piece, the orchestra speeds up a tad. Now, I still REALLY love how you guys played this! I just felt a want to give a bit of constructive criticism. Gotta help a fellow orchestra member out, ya know? Comparing the way my orchestra plays this piece to how it is played in this video really helps me understand the piece better. Thanks for reading! P.s. Sahara Crossing is aweeeesoooooome
when my orchestra plays this piece, our teacher says to play the piano dynamics louder because we have the melody at that time. i definitely see where you're coming from and what its suggesting but i guess other teachers have different ways to play certain pieces. usually when one section has the melody, our teacher says that section has to play forte even if it says piano, but thats just my teacher. i dont mean this is in a rude way, im just saying that some teachers may have different approaches to different pieces. :)
2:08 OMG this is my favorite part of this piece !! my orchestra teacher loves this part too and always makes the first violins (me) play it so loud I don’t get to enjoy it ! but I love it and I love this piece
omg so i cannot leave the video without dropping a comment- YALL R SO GOOD AHHH i literally couldn't tell that literal *6th graders* were playing this until i noticed how smol you guys were :O i just started playing violin this year, and without disclosing major personal info let's just say i'm a little older than you guys and listening to this i feel like your playing is just phenomenal at that age like WOW o- i just realised this was 5 years ago and now you'd all be 17 years old :O
Well, they're all seniors now, and getting ready to leave for college. Many people play music in middle school because there is time to explore this, but quit by junior or senior year in high school. But a bunch of these people are still playing, and will end up in Conservatory or University music programs in the fall. Enjoy your middle school years! It's a time to discover the musician inside and possibly a passion to pursue in the future!
Yes, over to the far right, hiding behind the cello section. This combined orchestra had 5 bassists .... but there were 15 cellists sitting in the foreground.
My school’s middle school orchestra played this last year. I play cello and I thought it was a really cool song. I think it’s played a tiny bit slower and with more dynamics, though. Sounding pretty good overall!
RU-vid has recommended a playlist starting with "Great Gate at Kiev." The playlist features songs that I played for orchestra in middle school that I've never searched up. This is the third song I've played.
This was several years ago before pandemic, so they'd all learned entirely in-person. We are all of us catching up from having a lot of online learning, myself included. It will happen.
