The Stars and Stripes Forever with 94 piccolos! [4K] 

Band teacher: Piccolos are meant to be HEARD.

I love how the brass is louder than 94 piccolos

When 76 trombones and 110 cornets weren’t enough

*Sees title* Me: *shudders* I don’t want to imagine why tuning was like.

Me: *sees title* oh god

for the first five minutes I was looking at the piccolos, and I was like, "There aren't even 94 players in that band, wtf" Skips to 5:00 *Lord save us all*

Organizer: "How many piccolos should we get?" Director: "ALL OF THEM."

If that title doesn’t strike fear into your heart, idk what will

Me: is it just me or did i got clickbaited? *Some minutes later* Me: oh..

I'm pretty sure using that many piccolos is against both the 8th Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

“So, how many piccolos you want?” Director: “yes”

That moment when the camera panned over the 91 piccolos in the back had me in tears

Stars and Stripes Wars: Revenge of the Picc

I was so confused for the first five minutes, like where are the other 91 piccolos?

The unfurling of the flag gave me goosebumps.

Played this to my budgie: It turned into a bald eagle.

Finally somebody understands that Stars and Stripes should be a piccolopalooza (piccolopocolypse?). There should be 1000 more.

Non-Americans: "America, why are you always so extra?" Americans: "OMG, we are not!" 94 Piccolo Players: "Speak for yourself."

I didn’t even know this many people played piccolo

I’ve played the piccolo for 9 years and never in my life have I ever seen more than two play together

Its a shame someone pulled the fire alarm edit: it was the piccolos, my bad

94 piccolos and still couldn't out blown by a trumpet

Wonderful! As a flutist, a mom, and a music teacher, I just about cried when I saw all those middle and high school kids getting this opportunity to be part of such an awesome, memorable experience! It was probably also pretty cool for the adults in the group, but for those kids! Yes! Thank you, Dallas Winds!

I was one of those piccolo's, with my mom and band director!!!

Emerging from nowhere though hidden in plain view at the same time, true to the Minuteman spirit.

How do you get 94 piccolos in tune? You shoot 93 of them!

It makes 100% sense that this was in Texas.

Stars and Stripes Forever is THE best patriotic march, and this piccolo-ed version of it is SUPERB! Texas does everything right!

I was wondering where all those piccolos were hiding.

This must have sounded like a swarm of bees flying around in tune.

The piccolo solo is sheer compositional genius.

Thank you John Philip Sousa. Semper Fi, Marine. 🇺🇸

RIP the audience's ears

AS A FORMER PICCOLO PLAYER, I WAS MOVED TO TEARS BY THIS PRODUCTION!

This is amazing. I did not expect all of those "crowd" members to actually be the other 91 piccolo players. What a brilliant performance and bravo to everyone involved in putting it together👌❤

This should be on every TV in America. God Bless the USA I wish I could give this 100 Thumbs Up Jim

wow for once I can hear the piccolos

Have to do this with Rite of Spring with bassoons

I played the piccolo and just being around 8 was enough. 94 is suicide

Tears to my eyes. Ive watched this maybe 100 times

Three of my friends (all were my flute section leaders over the course of three years) played picc during this performance. Loved seeing them do this!

Even when there are 94 pic. You could still hear the trumpets more😡

When one has stood playing "The Stars and Stripes Forever" with tears of pride streaming down ones face you know what it IS to be an AMERICAN!

“Maybe if I hide in the corner no-one will spot me and my double bass...”

WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS.

2:59 Old Glory unfurls and the crowd roars. Gave me a chill.Nice to see the Flag still means something to people in this great Republic.

Well, that was a well planned, special team, hide-in-place piccolo assault team, that completed the mission and helped win the battle. Well done.

I am a lifelong trombone player. I was never great, but I made it up to third chair Pennsylvania state band way way back in 2002. I cannot stress enough just how difficult a piece this is for a regular trombone. This speed is almost unheard of. This was sharp, crisp, and unbelievably well done. I swear before God that I actually teared up listening to it. Marvelous, amazingly well done, and please keep it up!

Oh, that everyone could enjoy playing this march with a band....thrilling.

I'm SURE J. P. Susa never thought 94 piccolos would be so grand.

5:00 When you defeated a boss and it says "THIS IS NOT EVEN MY FINAL FORM"

Oh those piccolos! I get the chills when I hear them!

When ever I hear these patriotic songs I never think of the "greatness" of the country...the "greatness" of its people...the "greatness" of its institutions. I think of the young kids,.... the "dog faces" (as they were called during WWII)... who fought and died for this country. These songs, at least in my mind, are a tribute to THEM!

Loved how in sync the trombones and tubas were with those fast staccato notes...sounded so clean. Also enjoyed the piccolo surprise. Well done, made me feel patriotic.

Wow. I legit got teary eyed from happiness tf. God I love this country

Sometimes people ask what America still does best, or has the best of, and this is one answer. Stirring patriotic marches that fill hearts with pride, yet not with war or aggression; tunes that are perfect for a town's high school band on the 4th of July or a concert in a city's finest venue. I live just to the north, and we have nothing like this.

Whoever is on spot is having wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too much fun... XD

Wow,, THAT is the way it's supposed to be done. As a former flute/piccolo player, I appreciate this. Even more, my husband is a former trumpet player, two of my granddaughters are flute players, we have a sax player, a french horn player, and a tuba. So we have had a lot of fun with this piece over the years. Bravo, Dallas, bravo.

That is BEAUTIFUL..I LOVE listening to ALL MILITARY MUSIC and also WATCHING THEM ALL in the PARADE...I ADMIRE THEM ALL FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE FOR THEIR COUNTRY..GOD BLESS THEM ALL PAST AND PRESENT ..

Now THAT'S how you smuggle in 91 pic's!!! If the trumpet player would just pull the growth, whatever it is, out of his horn this would be perfect 94 times over! Wow! What a great performance.

These artist actually have a lot of pride to be Americans it brought me to tears!

I would like to have been there. Next time try 1000 piccolos.

This song makes me proud to be an American! Chills when our flag came down! ❤️🇺🇸

The greatest Stars and Stripes performance ever.

I have tears of pride!

The American equivalent of the Last Night of the Proms. Bravo!

Sousa would be so proud!!

What a great idea! Stars and Stripes is one of my favorite Sousa marches because of the piccolo solos. Most peoples don't even notice the piccolos. I actually got emotional and teary because of the awesomeness of this video.

This is the most epic, beautiful, WONDERFUL performance of the song ever!

According to the the parts listed on Hal-Leonard, your band would number at least 6615 if you were to keep the same ratio of piccolo to rest of band. ( Assuming one per part(other that tuba (x4))).

I played flute and piccolo in our high school band, marching band, orchestra and university marching band. They were the best days of my life!! Oh the memories......... 🙂

this wonderful song has been stuck in my head all day and it hasn’t left

It's like some kind of crazy, awesome piccolo flash mob. :)

I love this too much

I loved the unfurling of the American flag, and kudos to the string bass player. Again, excellent rendition of John Philip Sousa’s masterpiece!

Who would: 94 piccolos with proficient players *OR* 1 trumpety boi

1:09 😍😍😍 This is one of my favorite songs to play on the French horn ❤️

My favorite piece of music! Brings tears to my eyes every time i hear it! THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER!

That was awesome ! Thank you ! - 7/4/2023

Awesome. Love this. I’m so proud of you all and proud to be an American.

This is so beautiful I cried like a baby!!

That is the greatest piece of band music ever composed and that band did a good job of playing it.

My father was a band director for over 30 years. He loved Sousa marches. I was a flautist/piccolo player. I played this many times but I doubt I ever played it that beautifully. When the 94 began to play I cried. It really moved me!

I am just now seeing this for the first time and it WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZINGLY AWESOME!! I am a VETERAN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND A DIEHARD PATRIOT! I also played the trumpet 🎺 in my younger years and aboard the USS KAWISHIWI, AO 146 out of PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII. this was from 1/75-11/77, ALMOST 3 FULL YEARS! The STARS AND STRIPES is the MOST POPULAR REQUEST FOR ANY MILITARY BAND! And, it's because of the SOLO BY THE PICCOLO!! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!! It's one of the hardest instruments to play!

Truly a wonderful patriotic performance.

It is just beautiful! What a remarkable and powerful an energetic performance. God Bless every talented woman and man found on this stage. Thanks

I promised myself I wouldn't cry! Also played Tenor Trombone for my H.S. Band (a.k.a. HM3 "Doc"Johnson) listening to all those piccolos put chills down my spine!!! 🇺🇸😭💞

I love how 3 trombones are louder than 94 piccolos

And now... with 9400% more PICCOLO POWER!!!

The piccolos were great. They shouldn't be louder than the brass, you can definitely hear them over the brass. Great job, piccolos!!!!

God bless America. Land of the free. Home of the brave. Damn I love that piccolo

I LOVE John Philip Sousa. His musics give force to my heart when l feel 👍👍 down.👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

I love this - LOVE the roars of the audience for the flag and the piccolos!

This song makes feel so good! I love it when the flag drops down!

This is absolutely the best rendition of this music I have yet found to date. Gets me all teary eyed every time.

Marching to this on parade grouds, oh the memories!

My heart is bursting with pride for my country!!

This single piece of music is really the sole reason anyone ever chooses to learn to play the piccolo.

I'm going to have this played at my funeral

I love that even when there are 94 piccolos the trumpets can still drown them out 👏🏻 I’m so proud