+TreeckoPlayzHD yeah, I'm a freshmen first clarinet player and so far I've been fine getting the tricky rhythms. Then my band said they wanted two hard pieces to play. I didn't see this one coming. 16th notes at speed 180. I'm going to die soon.
_4:12_ *_Teacher:_*_ Okay, for this part, we need someone to wail in agony. Any volunteers?_ *_Half the freakin' class:_*_ Amy._ *_Me:_*_ Why is this the legacy I leave?_
Basically me last year. I played this last year and I was terrified and said I couldn’t do it but now it’s one of my favorite pieces that we played. I wish we could still play it this year but no 😭. I will never forget this piece
The process of listening to this piece: Wow, beautiful solo to start with YEAH LOUD WOOHOO Hey wait this sounds like The Tempest... and Into the Storm... WHOA WAIT WHAT Sailing through hell in a good way Double tonguing AF Badass timpani solo for once 1 & Stomp & 3 & Stomp & (feat. whips and chains) Hey the oboe's back! Whoa there's a picc and they're playing together BOO MUCH SCURY Followed by "tortured moaning"? The trumpet soloist is here Sexy baseline IT'S BACK AGAIN OW MY FINGERS roLLING LOUD AGAIN WOOHOO nOiSE rolling... mysteriously... into the distance...
this is one of the most fun songs I ever got to perform. and as a percussionist i have played mostly..... rests. especially during concert season. love how this song didnt forget the percussion section, and really gets every member of the band to play their heart out. when we played we had a much heavier chain, and one of the trumpets would scream his head off at the whip cracks. even thought the song is about hell, hearing some of our final performances of it made me smile uncontrollably. it was like being in a movie soundtrack. so much fun.
and I thought a Chicago band chose something hard when they marched to Liminal by John Mackey for their fourth movement. Damn the first trumpet part for that is hard...
I always held this piece near and dear... I was a trumpet player in high school (c/o '99) and accomplished 1st chair to have the honor and privilege of playing this song, let alone that trumpet solo
The "chains" section sounds exactly like Rite of Spring, First Part: Adoration of the Earth: Spring Rounds. Maybe Smith simply quoted it for its sombre atmosphere.
I once met RWS and asked him about it, he said the Rite of Spring is one of his favorite works of all time and that he wanted to pay homage to Stravinsky.
About a year ago, I saw many comments on how similar this was to Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. At the time I had not heard of it. However, I am currently doing a project on the Rite and now I realize how similar sounding they are. The similarities between the oboe solo and bassoon solo, as well as the two slow sections. However, this piece is not bitonal, while the Rite is.
Got to play this for winter percussion (#4 bass drum) back in 1999, my freshman year of high school and has been my favorite since. We were all dressed up as dead people it was so AWESOME!
I composed a song for my band (yippee) but sadly my band director said it was too hard for our band. Meanwhile we are playing this song. I am triggered.
Were playing inferno, purgeatoreo, assention, and paridiso for concert and we've only had 4 weeks to get the music rehearse it and play it by next week. 😀
Playing the 3rd/bass trombone part was so much fun. At 0:29 I'll never forget when my director said "Play it as loud as you can while still being clean". That pedal F is a real killer note played that loud.
We're playing this in community band (Robert W. Smith was my band director's band director when he was in college 😂 my band director directs my high school band and community band) and I thought wow this is fast since I'm playing the flute and the one piccolo part at the chains, but this song is so intense and it really hit me hard so i was like "yeah, I give up easily on hard songs, but this song is different. I really want to learn this one" Rip my fingers. Wish me luck when our concert comes
So our marching show this year “took inspiration from this song”... AND NOW I’VE JUST LEARNED THAT EVERY PART OF OUR FIRST MOVEMENT IS RIPPED STRAIGHT FROM THIS! (DMHS 2018-19 marching show, “Pandora’s Box” to anyone interested)
Oboe solo in the beginning is the part where the movie production logos come in (Warner Bros, etc), title of movie comes on, and it just gets adventurous from there when the whole orchestra comes in. After the song ends, black out instantly with the credit "Directed by Steven Spielberg".
Played first trombone this year when we played the divine comedy as our marching show. My legs learned to move a whole new fast this year, especially in this and purgatorio
I got to play that trumpet solo and it was so much fun to just rip that high a at the end. It's so cool when it's pin drop silent for a sec after I just ripped that high note and let it soar.
I played a concert yesterday conducted by Robert Smith. We didn't play this, but we did play a few others by him. Songs of Sailor and Seas is a grade 6+. Talk about a hard song, lol.
We did Divine Comedy for my marching band theme in my junior year. I was the drum major and though we didn't place very well it was it was my favorite of the four years in high school. I don't think the marchers on the field enjoyed it as much as I did because I got to hear the whole package and they would only hear other players around them. They sounded and looked amazing. It was the largest number of marchers our school has ever had. That was in 2002 and it hasn't been that size ever since. 75 and the sections were balanced perfectly. ....kinda rambled on there...oh well.
I just got this yesterday. I play tenor sax. I have one month, more like three weeks, to learn all the sixteenth note runs on the last page of the song. Challenge accepted.
my marching band played an arranged version of this piece as our third movement, playing the woodwind parts is remarkably easier when it’s on the marimba haha
