The Tamana Girls High School Band Performs At The 2016 Glenn Miller Festival 

観客に退役軍人の方が多いとの情報とかが有って、4軍隊全ての行進曲も敬意を表して選曲されたのではと想像します。　彼女たちの名演奏で日本人の過去に拘らず今を大切にする精神がきっと伝わったと思います。

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@spoc I would like to see their RU-vid video. Which band was it?

@@richardstephens5258 玉名女子高等学校吹奏楽部 Tamana Girls High School - School Band

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Other Japanese HS groups to check out: Kyoto Tachibana HS Seika Girls HS Inagakuen Yodogawa Technical HS Kwassui Osaka Touin HS all world class groups

Yes, the warm up (and I wish I knew exactly what they were playing) was just as good as the concert. The discipline and esprit de corps that these girls display is absolutely amazing. There will be over 90 of them coming to the Glenn Miller Festival in 2020. I hope you can be there to witness their performance!

I have always been curious about the title myself. It's very beautiful, and it's a concert of it's own!

そりゃ爺さん婆さんばかりだもの…何せグレン・ミラー音楽祭ですからね。

玉名女子ですよ〜それとこのドルチェサウンドを作れる高校は玉名女子だけです！ほんとに素晴らしいですよね！

@@だいちゃん-z6l 何度も再生してるマイブーム。

PRAYERS

「祈りと誇り、そして明日へと受け継がれてゆくもの」 Prayer and Pride for the Future - Junichi Naito ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qTnYLKApV-g.html 1：25～

Thank you!

I have no affiliation whatsoever with the Tamana Girls High School. You would have to contact them personally. They are located in Kumamoto, Japan. I'm simply the videographer for the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society.

You certainly may! Thank you!

@@kcbigbandjazz Thank you very much!

I sure hope not.

Richard Stephens Officials with the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society announced Saturday that the 2020 Glenn Miller Festival scheduled for June 11th-14th, as well as the 2020 Glenn Miller Music Scholarship competition, are canceled. Officials say the decision is based upon guidance of federal, state and health care authorities regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

And I was planning to go, just because of this band...

I think that their instructors believe that the expression they are playing is also an important element of the performance. Appealing the entire face, including the forehead and eyebrows, to the audience is also an important part of the performance. I'm not good at English so please forgive me.

@@honndawakenomikoto Your English is fine and, in fact, is much better than my non-existent Japanese. Thanks for the reply.

Though I can't say for certain why this is (I'll defer to Yuki's comment there), here's a point you might find interesting. In many Japanese school bands (which are usually 80-85% female), the younger ladies will often adjust their hairstyles to match the hairstyle of a senpai they admire, whether it's their section leader, or a drum major, or the band president. I do see a lot of matching styles in this group, though it's not as common as I've seen in other groups. And it's not just a hair obsession either....Japan is a very rank-obsessed culture. The senpai possess the great responsibility to teach the rookies the pecking order, and if the younger ones screw up, it's the senpai who get called out. So the senpai take their role very seriously, and the younger players look to the senpai as model examples. They know that one day they will have to step up and lead the next generation of juniors, so they look to the elders, the senpai to show them the way. I do think the hairclips for bangs is more of a uniform standard....not necessarily by the school, but I could see the band director (or student leader--student leaders have a LOT more power in Japanese bands than their American counterparts; they often even have the authority to dismiss rehearsal) giving some big speech to the band about how "We cannot achieve perfection with these wretched bangs getting in our way, so we shall ALL of us pin our bangs back in order to obtain maximum efficiency in achieving the greatest possible performance!"....or something like that. I could totally see it. Some Japanese bands go as far as to make sure everyone has their feet planted on stage the exact same way, and sync all their body motions together.

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弓野正尚 多分ですけど表情が分かるようにじゃないですかね？

多分、自分を表に出すということだと思うのですが？　第六感はおでこで感じるとも言います。

Yes, you are definitely wrong. These are all high school girls. They are very good, and girls from American high schools would never achieve the discipline, esprit de corps, and respect for adults that these girls have. I have been with them in rehearsal, watched how they display themselves in public, and been to many of their concerts, and recorded them as well. You would do well to research the history of this school and the many years that they have been coming to our festival in Clarinda before making such silly remarks.

あちこちでけちばっかりつけてんじゃねーぞ❗❗

mitsuyuki maruyama 指揮者は知らんが選曲はもちっとできたんじゃないのか？とは思います。

指導者も生徒も　楽曲も最高！。当然、指揮者も最高。くだらない独り言の書き込み不必要！！

いや日本でも全然普通じゃないですよ 高校トップクラスです