These guys are clearly freshman and not experienced with hard sings like sleigh ride. So most likely they just got back into school and it was near December, the same thing happened to me
Noicee. I think the most important thing in concerts and stuff is that you have fun. You can only be good at something if you enjoy it. Now for things like assessment, it's a completely different story (hehe)...
Well the tubas had to play the bass trombone part because there were no tuba parts in the arrangement we were playing, same with the bass clarinet, the real tuba part should have been the bass part which you can kind of hear but it’s kinda unfortunate. Also my school’s band isn’t the best.
I played it last year. We played the original. There is one really fun trombone part that you can hear in any recording of sleigh ride by Leroy Anderson.