During my senior year @ the University of Rochester (spring 1976), I pointed out a discrepancy between Shostakovach's original orchestral score and Dr. Donald Hunsberger's transcription. The discrepancy is at the recapitulation of the fanfare around 5:32. In the original score, Shostakovich writes the bass drum accenting beats 2 and 4 whereas Dr. Hunsberger scores the bass drum on beats 1 and 3. I showed this to my tympani and percussion instructor, Gordon Stout who then advised Eastman Percussion Chairman Dr. John Beck of my "discovery", who then informed fellow faculty member, Dr. Donald Hunsberger, then conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, what one of HIS undergraduate Biology, NON-MUSIC MAJORS "found". Needless to say, the following week, I was summoned to meet with Dr. Hunsberger. To show his appreciation, Dr. John Beck presented me an "A" for the class and 2 pairs of hand-made bamboo handle tympani mallets as graduation present. Never forgot Dr. Beck's kindness to this non-music major ensemble player.
Our symphonic band in high school is playing this piece. I'm a second chair flute and let me tell you this is SO HARD. Props to this group for playing it so flawlessly.
Yes it's live, there are some audible, human mistakes, but that doesn't detract from a fantastic performance. Few collegiate bands can muster this level of execution, and Michigan does it brilliantly.
This is breathtaking. The tempo is so fast and the clarinets are flying !!! I played this arrangement my senior year in High School (First Clarinet) and I know how difficult it is. Wow. This is as good any professional performance of this piece that I have every heard.
David Blakley He didn't say the piece was played too fast here, he simply said that they played it very quickly which demonstrates remarkable technical ability.
Love this piece and it sounds great but why didn't they focus on the PICCOLO at all?! It literally makes this piece POP! Kudos to the awesome Picc player!!!! :D
This performance is incredible. I've played this transcription a handful of times and have never heard the level of phrasing and musical decision making that was presented in this performance. Bravo.
Justin Marks I played in this band (you can see me sitting in the euphonium section). Professor Haithcock knew this piece intimately. He rehearsed and performed without a score, by memory. His interpretation is the result of decades of study and performance.
As a euphonium player having played this piece, I can say wholeheartedly that the technical and musical aspects coming from the euphonium section in this ensemble were absolutely spectacular. Rehearsal number 8... my god!
UM has had really strong euphonium sections for decades, going all the way back to the '50s. One year ('69-70, I think) ours consisted of Brian Bowman (WSJ later featured him as "the Heifetz of the euphonium"), Bill Himes, and the only two non-music majors in the whole band. That year, the fifth chair didn't go on tour but was the euphonium soloist in one of the Washington service bands a few years later. Revelli didn't pick on us much...
Superb rendition of a fun romp. I was lucky enough to play this in the University of Washington Wind Sinfonietta in 1971, under dear Walter Welke. Loved it! Thanks for posting this great performance.
I think this is the best version on the net that I've seen/heard in terms of precision, articulation, dynamics. But I noticed - there are two female players in the front row, to the conductor's right, who never play! They sit through the entire performance without playing their instruments. Odd!
Yeah, the Euphonium/Baritone part is really awesome too bad I wanna play a section where the trombones are playing and I do it on my baritone just to satisfy myself ( 4:04 ). Also, let me tell you I think its section/number 8 or 7 there's a really fast and hard part and these dudes played it almost flawlessly. I say almost because I didn't hear most of it in the middle so it can't be certain but man they did it incredibly I think it starts at 1:46 Lol no matter how many times I try I can't get it but ill probably will in the far future GL for me xD
@@Spagoop I was in the euphonium section during Revelli's last four years, and we played this many times, usually as a concert opener on tour. We had a reunion in Ann Arbor in 1994, and Bill Himes, our section leader, conducted (Revelli was there, was told not to conduct because of his health, but he conducted "The Victors"- for the last time, I believe- anyway at the end of the rehearsal. The euphonium part sounds like one giant instrument after you've played it daily for a month on tour...
I played this on euphonium in high school (1971-72). Decades later, I can still remember that part vividly. Back then, high school bands were huge. We had six tubas and six euphs. Glad this was part of our repertoire! (I'd probably keel over if I tried playing it now!)
one of the female players that never plays is an oboe playing friend of mine...i sat in on a rehearsal in which they rehearsed this piece when i auditioned there a couple years ago. they rotate parts and she wasn't assigned to play on this piece.
Morris Hills HS concert band played this in 1967 comparable to what is heard here. Was an honor and privilege to perform under Herman L. Dash's baton during my HS years. Also performed Universal Judgement and American Civil War Fantasy.
This is an excellent performance by an excellent band. I wonder how this same band would sound if they played Nelhybel's "Symphonic Requiem" a tempo? I know a university band that played the requiem a tempo, and the performance was unbelievably fantastic. The band was the West Texas State University Symphonic Band directed by Dr. Garner Garner in 1968.
It's very good, but there is a noticeable mistake in the trumpets at 00:25 - 00:26. Just enough to remind you that they are indeed human :) But a wonderful performance nonetheless, especially for a college wind ensemble.
Professional sound for sure, but not touched up at all. Just a bunch of talented, young musicians working their tails off and learning from incredible professors. I'd encourage you to listen to all the songs from this concert on this channel, it was a lot of fun! Source: I'm playing bass trombone in this video. It's the best group I have ever and will ever play with.
SU2000PSI03 I was at this concert. I also have the original video as well as the original audio. It is the authentic performance. You should have heard it on the return concert!!
This is typical quality for the U of M Symphony Band over many decades.Having played this a few times myself, I can vouch for the fact that it seems as though more often than not at least one trumpet struggles with the opening notes, even in a group of this caliber. Almost makes me think Shostakovich wrote it that way intentionally because he had some personal vendetta against a trumpet player. :-)
Hong Michelle That part that is all over the throat tones ( the break ) is a nightmare. I have played this piece so many times and I was 26 when I finally played what was actually there with all the articulations.
AnimeLover4Life3395 as the euphonium player sitting first chair in this video, I can attest that it was quite a performance. I will always cherish my time in the UM Symphony Band, and the other two players on this concert are lifelong friends who I'm sure feel the same way.
Lol too bad I'm playing the baritone rn so I'm playing a support kinda role but I didn't know the euphoniums played the melody. I might go back to being a Euphonium in concert band lol
Mistakes or no mistakes, The University of Michigan Symphony Band has been brilliantly conducted by Michael Haithcock. Their iconic performance of Star and Stripes forever by John P. Sousa absolutely phenomenal. Much better than Leonard Bernstein's.
I don't get it, in the original orchestration, all of these concert band instruments are playing it in A. The trumpets play in A, the tubas play in A, the clarinets play in A. If they can all play in A in the original orchestration, why change it to Ab?
@@steftrando Because A major is a horrible key for many wind band instruments. The clarinets are in Bb (especially the bass clarinets which rarely have A instruments), the Saxophones in Bb and Eb, the euphoniums in Bb, etc. This transcription was made decades ago. There is a newer transcription by one of the military bands in DC, and instead of down a half step from the original like this one, it's up a half step to Bb. It's quite a bit brighter in sound.
opening trumpets intonation and missed note? english horn and trumpet duet? whoops trumpet. dr rivelli would be on you like a fly on you know what. fine job with little hiccups.
I hate how not a single band has the bolls to play in the original key. Im a composer my self, new to the thing, and I compose band pieces In extremely difficult keys like Eb minor, B major, E major, etc, to add to the difficult repertoire, not only for band but for orchestra, but I see too many times an arrangement NOT in its original key. My main instrument is Bb and I’m currently tackling extremely difficult orchestral excerpts, and honestly, all it showed me is that band music will ALWAYS be easy and orchestra music, well, difficult. Like honestly man, it might be hard, but it’s beneficial for the musicians. I don’t mind playing 5 sharps, or 6 flats, I think every musician, yes, even band musicians, not only orchestral ones, should tackle these. Like god damn. Listen to Stravinsky rite of spring or Ravels Daphnis et Chloe. It shames the band repertoire. Shostakovich has some pretty intense and difficult excerpts too, but the point is, dude, just write it in A major, original key, to give the musicians MORE of what they want to achieve. Besides that, good performance.
Go listen to Merlin Patterson's transcription of "Nessun Dorma", which has FIVE sharps for the alto/bari saxes. I don't often see string ensembles performing pieces in flat keys (even with works of Percy Grainger and/or Gustav Holst originally written for winds), and perhaps this has to do with the tuning of the instruments. Maybe it's easier for winds to sound good in flat keys the same way it's probably easier for strings to sound good in sharp keys. EDIT: TIL Merlin Patterson has a pretty faithful transcription of "Le sacre du printemps".
It really sucks that apparently two players weren't deemed worthy enough to play this piece, and they had to endure the performance sitting in the first row right under the oblivious conductor. Totally blows, U of M.
+Hubert Arnold My son was a Michigan bassoonist in this group and I was at the live concert prior to their tour to China. Some band members were not assigned to all pieces due to instrumentation requirements. Instead of having them rotate off and regroup the ensemble they were just allowed to sit. It allowed the group to play a wide rep without having to re-stage each number. And Dr. Haithcock was not in the least oblivious; it was intentional. The only thing that blows here is your rudeness.
+Mitchell Green Oh my, I'll just go over and sit in a corner for the rest of the day. Thanks for your enlightening response, although to the uneducated layman, it still looks really bad. Highly doubtful the performance would have been ruined by their participation.
Hubert Arnold, if you think Michael Haithcock is oblivious, and if you don't realize that not everyone plays on every piece in a wind band or orchestra concert, you are a clueless fool, and not qualified to give your opinion on this. Only being an Ohio State fan would excuse your ignorant trolling.
That's funny considering that TBDBITL recorded an abridged version themselves! My guess is that those are fanboys of some other prestigious (e.g. US Marine, North Texas, Baylor, Tokyo Kosei, etc.) ensemble.
During my senior year @ the University of Rochester (spring 1976), I pointed out a discrepancy between Shostakovach's original orchestral score and Dr. Donald Hunsberger's transcription. The discrepancy is at the recapitulation of the fanfare around 5:32. In the original score, Shostakovich writes the bass drum accenting beats 2 and 4 whereas Dr. Hunsberger scores the bass drum on beats 1 and 3. I showed this to my tympani and percussion instructor, Gordon Stout who then advised Eastman Percussion Chairman Dr. John Beck of my "discovery", who then informed fellow faculty member, Dr. Donald Hunsberger, then conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, what one of HIS undergraduate Biology, NON-MUSIC MAJORS "found". Needless to say, the following week, I was summoned to meet with Dr. Hunsberger. To show his appreciation, Dr. John Beck presented me an "A" for the class and 2 pairs of hand-made bamboo handle tympani mallets as graduation present. Never forgot Dr. Beck's kindness to this non-music major ensemble player.
Our symphonic band in high school is playing this piece. I'm a second chair flute and let me tell you this is SO HARD. Props to this group for playing it so flawlessly.
At least you don't have the supposedly impossible bassoon part my friend was also complaining about… haha
@@pearspeedruns It is pretty insane
Imagine playing it in the original key of A Major. ###
The WTSU band just played for the 16th time at the Texas Music Educators Association in San Antonio. No other university has performed that many times
Those clarinets were GETTING IT DONE!
Yes it's live, there are some audible, human mistakes, but that doesn't detract from a fantastic performance. Few collegiate bands can muster this level of execution, and Michigan does it brilliantly.
This is breathtaking. The tempo is so fast and the clarinets are flying !!! I played this arrangement my senior year in High School (First Clarinet) and I know how difficult it is. Wow. This is as good any professional performance of this piece that I have every heard.
It's NOT too fast. You're just not that good to play it as fast as these remarkable young musicians
David Blakley He didn't say the piece was played too fast here, he simply said that they played it very quickly which demonstrates remarkable technical ability.
What about the rendition done by the Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of Russia? ruclips.net/video/ujQOeVQv3JU/видео.html
Imagine this being ur quarantine hw
This is my hw smh
I was a euphonium in the 1971 European Tour SB (Revelli's last) and played this many times. It's been a favorite ever since!
Love this piece and it sounds great but why didn't they focus on the PICCOLO at all?! It literally makes this piece POP! Kudos to the awesome Picc player!!!! :D
One of my favorite pieces ever and this was a BRILLIANT performance of it!
Bravo University of Michigan Symphony Band for an excellent performance.
This is the best band performance of this work I've ever heard. Excellent in every way.
mmmmmm listen to some more....
you are too kind
This performance is incredible. I've played this transcription a handful of times and have never heard the level of phrasing and musical decision making that was presented in this performance. Bravo.
Justin Marks I played in this band (you can see me sitting in the euphonium section). Professor Haithcock knew this piece intimately. He rehearsed and performed without a score, by memory. His interpretation is the result of decades of study and performance.
As a euphonium player having played this piece, I can say wholeheartedly that the technical and musical aspects coming from the euphonium section in this ensemble were absolutely spectacular. Rehearsal number 8... my god!
Kyle Aufderhar as a euphonium player in this video, thanks!
UM has had really strong euphonium sections for decades, going all the way back to the '50s. One year ('69-70, I think) ours consisted of Brian Bowman (WSJ later featured him as "the Heifetz of the euphonium"), Bill Himes, and the only two non-music majors in the whole band. That year, the fifth chair didn't go on tour but was the euphonium soloist in one of the Washington service bands a few years later. Revelli didn't pick on us much...
@@mgheroy I think they might have been jealous of Dr. Leonard Falcone.
Superb rendition of a fun romp. I was lucky enough to play this in the University of Washington Wind Sinfonietta in 1971, under dear Walter Welke. Loved it! Thanks for posting this great performance.
Perhaps the gold standard for transcriptions. Well played.
Don Hunsberger
a deserved class for wind bands--fiendiciously difficult (esp. for winds) but great fun at same time.
I am impressed by the richness of the ensemble's sound. Bravo!
Ahh whoever on is piccolo is KILLING it!! So good. I see you on those high C’s
I think this is the best version on the net that I've seen/heard in terms of precision, articulation, dynamics. But I noticed - there are two female players in the front row, to the conductor's right, who never play! They sit through the entire performance without playing their instruments. Odd!
Is no one gonna talk about the euphonium part tho
Carlos Desrosiers I’m playing it in my high school band this semester
Yeah, the Euphonium/Baritone part is really awesome too bad I wanna play a section where the trombones are playing and I do it on my baritone just to satisfy myself ( 4:04 ). Also, let me tell you I think its section/number 8 or 7 there's a really fast and hard part and these dudes played it almost flawlessly. I say almost because I didn't hear most of it in the middle so it can't be certain but man they did it incredibly I think it starts at 1:46 Lol no matter how many times I try I can't get it but ill probably will in the far future GL for me xD
Durian Boi I am finally starting to get the fast parts down
@@Spagoop I was in the euphonium section during Revelli's last four years, and we played this many times, usually as a concert opener on tour. We had a reunion in Ann Arbor in 1994, and Bill Himes, our section leader, conducted (Revelli was there, was told not to conduct because of his health, but he conducted "The Victors"- for the last time, I believe- anyway at the end of the rehearsal. The euphonium part sounds like one giant instrument after you've played it daily for a month on tour...
I played this on euphonium in high school (1971-72). Decades later, I can still remember that part vividly. Back then, high school bands were huge. We had six tubas and six euphs. Glad this was part of our repertoire! (I'd probably keel over if I tried playing it now!)
Played this in 1980 and took it on our Europe tour. A great show piece.
yasssss come thru piccolo!!
this is played soooo smoothly that it just SEEMS effortless!! bravoooo!!!
Sooo clean! Wonderful 😎👍🏼
love this song 🤩 i play piccolo ❗️
it be like that though
Excellent performance! Well-balanced, well-interpreted, well-performed and well-conducted!
Wow! Very clean playing with accuracy!! Well done clarinets, saxes, and flutes!!
Excellent, 1st class performance.
I'm playing this in my band, then I just decided to look up " hard concert band music" and this was the first result XD
This piece brings me so much joy :)
one of the female players that never plays is an oboe playing friend of mine...i sat in on a rehearsal in which they rehearsed this piece when i auditioned there a couple years ago. they rotate parts and she wasn't assigned to play on this piece.
I played 1st horn this year for this piece, it was so fun :)
Excellent performance and extraordinary orchestra! Bravissimi!! M.
ouch, that poor trombonist in front of the cymbals
Love this piece! Well played!
Dude are you still here?
Pretty solid performance.
4:04 gets me every time. Love this piece
wonderful....nice to see sooooo many woodwinds:)
Brass sounds so full. Wonderful
A piece Shostakovich wrote in ONE day 🤯
Outstanding!!!
I don't understand the 1 person who disliked this...why!?
4:03 is love
very very impressive!
4th trumpet part is sounding good. Many would consider it more challenging than 1st.
Morris Hills HS concert band played this in 1967 comparable to what is heard here. Was an honor and privilege to perform under Herman L. Dash's baton during my HS years. Also performed Universal Judgement and American Civil War Fantasy.
4:04 my favorite moment of the piece!
This is an excellent performance by an excellent band. I wonder how this same band would sound if they played Nelhybel's "Symphonic Requiem" a tempo? I know a university band that played the requiem a tempo, and the performance was unbelievably fantastic. The band was the West Texas State University Symphonic Band directed by Dr. Garner Garner in 1968.
+James Latimer
Gary Garner was a great conductor; he conducted the El Paso All-City Band in 1971. It was a great experience.
UM Symphony Band did play Nelhybel, under Revelli some years prior to this recording. Great piece of music!
We’re playing this in the wind ensemble at my hs and I love the flute part♥️
Very fun arrangement to play.
This is too perfect. It has to be a professional recording, mixed and mastered.
It's very good, but there is a noticeable mistake in the trumpets at 00:25 - 00:26.
Just enough to remind you that they are indeed human :)
But a wonderful performance nonetheless, especially for a college wind ensemble.
Lol, there's a trumpet crack in the beginning. Yes, it's really good, but turn on your ears.
Professional sound for sure, but not touched up at all. Just a bunch of talented, young musicians working their tails off and learning from incredible professors. I'd encourage you to listen to all the songs from this concert on this channel, it was a lot of fun!
Source: I'm playing bass trombone in this video. It's the best group I have ever and will ever play with.
SU2000PSI03 I was at this concert. I also have the original video as well as the original audio. It is the authentic performance. You should have heard it on the return concert!!
This is typical quality for the U of M Symphony Band over many decades.Having played this a few times myself, I can vouch for the fact that it seems as though more often than not at least one trumpet struggles with the opening notes, even in a group of this caliber. Almost makes me think Shostakovich wrote it that way intentionally because he had some personal vendetta against a trumpet player. :-)
They have a bass sax!!
It's a Baritone saxophone
+S Hansard no, the one next to the bari, I know the difference between a bari and a bass, it's clearly a bass
you can see it several times, the guy next to the bari Sax player with the curly hair
I want one but they are hard to find...
Wow! Shostakovich would be proud.
They have a bass saxophone??!!
i am a clarinetist and i am playing this in early may~ this is really fast and the staccato is crazy and the runnings are super duper difficult~
Hong Michelle That part that is all over the throat tones ( the break ) is a nightmare. I have played this piece so many times and I was 26 when I finally played what was actually there with all the articulations.
Check out the US Marine Band recording on RUclips.
Good music
Man, I miss playing in concert band.
Me too, I'm looking for a community band to plsy with😔
Bass sax omggg.
HOLY SHT HEARING YOUR EUPHONIUMS PLAY THE MELODY IS INSANE OMG, FANBOYING NOW
xXDwalongXx as someone who has played this on euph, I can confirm that it is awesome and fun.
AnimeLover4Life3395 as the euphonium player sitting first chair in this video, I can attest that it was quite a performance. I will always cherish my time in the UM Symphony Band, and the other two players on this concert are lifelong friends who I'm sure feel the same way.
Excellent job, Robert! I've always loved playing the euph line in this piece too!!! FEAR THE EUPHONIUMS!!!
Lol too bad I'm playing the baritone rn so I'm playing a support kinda role but I didn't know the euphoniums played the melody. I might go back to being a Euphonium in concert band lol
Mistakes or no mistakes, The University of Michigan Symphony Band has been brilliantly conducted by Michael Haithcock. Their iconic performance of Star and Stripes forever by John P. Sousa absolutely phenomenal. Much better than Leonard Bernstein's.
Keep practicing and don't give up! :)
How do y’all think about how the conductor brought out the different tones in the piece?
Was Haithcock a student of Dr. Revelli?
That's an interesting way to hold a bass sax!
play it at x1.15 speed and it'll sound like the marine band
I think just about every band I've heard has had an issue with the opening.
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I'm buying this lol
Which transcription is this? Donald Hunsberger or Charles Boardman Righter? Anyone know?
This is the Hunsberger transcription
I'm only in 7th grade, and am preparing this piece on alto sax for junior MYWE seating audition, and it is the hardest thing I have ever tried.
damn.
can you share this score for me?
What do you mean?
I wonder what conductors like Kleiber or Bernstein could do with a group like this.
The first trumpet who cracked the F defines me as a human being.
sounds like a video game if sped up to the max XD
Isn’t this in the wrong key?
I don't get it, in the original orchestration, all of these concert band instruments are playing it in A. The trumpets play in A, the tubas play in A, the clarinets play in A. If they can all play in A in the original orchestration, why change it to Ab?
@@steftrando Because A major is a horrible key for many wind band instruments. The clarinets are in Bb (especially the bass clarinets which rarely have A instruments), the Saxophones in Bb and Eb, the euphoniums in Bb, etc. This transcription was made decades ago. There is a newer transcription by one of the military bands in DC, and instead of down a half step from the original like this one, it's up a half step to Bb. It's quite a bit brighter in sound.
BASS TROMBONE
5:12
Not bad but the trumpets at the beginning tend to cut off their notes a little too early
Agree. Played this piece before, trumpets need to sustain those long notes, otherwise won't sound like a fanfare...
opening trumpets intonation and missed note? english horn and trumpet duet? whoops trumpet. dr rivelli would be on you like a fly on you know what. fine job with little hiccups.
a 1n amigo le dejaron esto de terea jajsjkas.
As are speling two.
Kubrick should have used this in 2001.
A very good college band. But the conductor wins no praise for precision and clarity of beat.
SiegfriedHorner at this level, they don't need to be shown any kind of beat.
I am 11 years old and I play the 1st tuba :) . It is diffycult for me
I made the 1k likes
I hate how not a single band has the bolls to play in the original key. Im a composer my self, new to the thing, and I compose band pieces In extremely difficult keys like Eb minor, B major, E major, etc, to add to the difficult repertoire, not only for band but for orchestra, but I see too many times an arrangement NOT in its original key. My main instrument is Bb and I’m currently tackling extremely difficult orchestral excerpts, and honestly, all it showed me is that band music will ALWAYS be easy and orchestra music, well, difficult. Like honestly man, it might be hard, but it’s beneficial for the musicians. I don’t mind playing 5 sharps, or 6 flats, I think every musician, yes, even band musicians, not only orchestral ones, should tackle these. Like god damn. Listen to Stravinsky rite of spring or Ravels Daphnis et Chloe. It shames the band repertoire. Shostakovich has some pretty intense and difficult excerpts too, but the point is, dude, just write it in A major, original key, to give the musicians MORE of what they want to achieve. Besides that, good performance.
The Other Dude I don’t even play euph, but Jesus have you looked at the euphonium part.
Go listen to Merlin Patterson's transcription of "Nessun Dorma", which has FIVE sharps for the alto/bari saxes. I don't often see string ensembles performing pieces in flat keys (even with works of Percy Grainger and/or Gustav Holst originally written for winds), and perhaps this has to do with the tuning of the instruments. Maybe it's easier for winds to sound good in flat keys the same way it's probably easier for strings to sound good in sharp keys.
EDIT: TIL Merlin Patterson has a pretty faithful transcription of "Le sacre du printemps".
So write a transcription in the orchestra key and sell it.
Zzzzzz
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It really sucks that apparently two players weren't deemed worthy enough to play this piece, and they had to endure the performance sitting in the first row right under the oblivious conductor. Totally blows, U of M.
+Hubert Arnold My son was a Michigan bassoonist in this group and I was at the live concert prior to their tour to China. Some band members were not assigned to all pieces due to instrumentation requirements. Instead of having them rotate off and regroup the ensemble they were just allowed to sit. It allowed the group to play a wide rep without having to re-stage each number. And Dr. Haithcock was not in the least oblivious; it was intentional. The only thing that blows here is your rudeness.
+Mitchell Green Oh my, I'll just go over and sit in a corner for the rest of the day. Thanks for your enlightening response, although to the uneducated layman, it still looks really bad. Highly doubtful the performance would have been ruined by their participation.
Hubert Arnold, if you think Michael Haithcock is oblivious, and if you don't realize that not everyone plays on every piece in a wind band or orchestra concert, you are a clueless fool, and not qualified to give your opinion on this. Only being an Ohio State fan would excuse your ignorant trolling.
Tsk tsk tsk... Two Ohio State fans that don't appreciate music.
That's funny considering that TBDBITL recorded an abridged version themselves! My guess is that those are fanboys of some other prestigious (e.g. US Marine, North Texas, Baylor, Tokyo Kosei, etc.) ensemble.
Played this at music camp some time after hearing this being played by them live, makes me love the piece even more :)