We played this for symphonic winds one year. Still is one of my favourites to play❤ it was one of my last concert pieces to play after playing for 15 years.
I played bassoon in this song in my band, and we didn't have a string bass so during the last slow part when the brass is trading the melody, me and the other bassoonist got to trade off holding a low C. I hated it, and the judge at the festival we took it to asked why my band director didn't just have the marimba player hold a low C.