I will never, and I repeat NEVER, forget playing this my junior year of Symphony. Our percussion coordinator put is on multiple instruments because there wasn't enough of us to cover all the parts. I had to play bass and tamtam. My director let me play everything extra loud so I remember pounding the crap out of that Wuhan at the very end of the song.
I played this song my senior year in high school, and have been in love ever since. I play alto sax and played first chair. PERIOD.... the solo was mine and i killed it... had 4 full ride band scholarships just from them listening to me play this..... the horns and saxophone parts are the best!!!......
I happen to play the Alto and my school is playing this at our Spring concert. It is such an up lifting song for me. My favorite part would have to be measure 70 after the Sax solo.
I played this song in my college concert band and I played alto 1. When we sight read that song and it came to that part for me I pretty much crapped myself. After long hours and blood sweat and tears I performed that solo successfully. It was worth it. Awesome song!!!
this a sweet song- he came to the senior allstate band two years ago and conducted, and the band played ride and rush, but ride is by far my fave. hazo is so talented!
My band played this last year. And this year we're playing the sister piece, Rush... They're both so awesome!!! They end on the exact same note too... ((At the same time, if you play them at the same time.))
I played the sax solo - NY State Summer School of Orchestral Studies (SOS) 2008!! :) And 2 years earlier I played it with my high school, but on bassoon - what a fabulous piece!!!
this piece is a beast I LOVED IT! i played it my freshman year in my high school wind ensemble. they took it to competition and blew the competitors away with it. i can remember being fully stunned when we finished playing the first time.
I loved playing this piece!!!! I played mallets on this song. Mr. Hazo even visited us at our school (Benjamin E. Mays High) and conducted our Wind Symphony at our Conductor Symposium!!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!
My Highschool band might be playing this this year! We messed around with it last year, but decided on Arabesque and Olympiada. It's so much fun to play!
omg. the sax solo always gets me. it's beautiful when played well. i will never forget this song. i always listen to it because it just makes me so happy
1:07 = YES! And if you want to know if it's fun as hell to march, I'll let you know next month once we get it on the field! We did this piece in our highest level band a couple years ago... maybe we're crazy, but we're looking forward to this.
Played this my sophomore year and we killed it... I was new in our school's top band and I play alto... Our first chair killed it and to this day I'm in awe of him
@Skinker I think the sax solo is supposed to contrast with the surrounding melody...at least in my opinion. That's the feeling I got when I heard it. That, and the chills down my spine. I hope my band conductor picks this for Spring semester...we're playing Rush now...
I remember this piece of music fondly. It was difficult, but very very rewarding when we finally got it up to tempo. :sigh: Those were the good old days.
This was great. I have to perform this for a band, and this piece is perfect. The French horns and horns give a thoughtful tone to the music halfway through, and I liked it!😄👦 ✋ stars
The seniors at our school picked this song for the senior piece and man is it awsome! I play euphonium and it's totally a crazy new expierence and I totally have fun laughing at the tubas ripping the 16th notes.
I played 1st trumpet for this song my freshman, it's very, very challenging, but you feel so good when you get it done and pull it off. It's an incredible piece of music, and all mature wind ensembles should play it at least once.
My band is performing this piece and my band director does her conducting with alot of expression and really fast so she almost has heart attacts at the end. Its an EPIC SONG!
well all you guys out there i am in the New York philharmonic...we sightread this piece and got a perfect score on it...i am a trombone player and i would have to say that you guys have it pretty easy...besides the difference in key changes and frequent change in time signiatures...i encourage every band director in the US to try out this piece...it is a very nice piece
my band almost played this song. i'm in 8th grade and this is only our second year playing. for some people, it's their first year. so they cut it, unfortunately. its such a cool piece!!!
Well he was/is a percussionist. In our clinic with him he actually went back and played the timpani part for Olympiada to show them how to play it correctly. It was amazing, to say the least.
@56ratman it switches mulitple times throughout the whole piece, and there is definitely 7/8 measures in there, along with a few 6/8, and tons others...
I remember during my senior year, I had to play the xylophone part. I'm not go lie, and say that it was simple, cause it wasn't. It took me a while to get it down, but when I had it solid, I really started to enjoy playing the song.
Thumbs up to Rosa Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts!! We played this for a Competition at Hershey park in 2004. AMAZING PIECE!!! ::signing off:: your fellow trumpeteer
and in Exultate [which is great] he copies a mallet part that he used in novo lenio if you saw the sheet music it's seriously the same notes with the same rhythm but different by 1 note
I absolutely love this piece! we played it for an all region clinic and it was by far my favorite piece that we played. The only bad part was that another tuba player missed an accidental and it sounded horrible... and was most definately caught on recording XD
Played this my junior year in high school. Band was barely 60 people, most of whom were barely out of 9th grade and maybe 5 seniors. It was a mock judging before competition and we got straight 1's right across the board.... feelsgoodman.jpg
I played first in this song also and took it quite a toll on me and the 2nd chair in my school's second band 2 years ago. I was a freshman though and I was barely able to play any more high Cs in the last few measures luckily the Sophomore next to me kept it up haha. It doesn't seem so hard now that I look back at it lol. Yea, Hazo writes some crazy music.
this is our closer this year, the show is entitled surviving the haze, olympiada is the opener followed by each time you tell their story then ride as a closer, its in a different arrange order but its still ride
i lvoe this song because of the french horns part especially for those who have the music i believe its like measure 95? but i play the bass durm on this song and he has so much going on in this song he jus makes it exciting i love it
Playing this song this year. i got the sheet music and was like WTF OMG HAX. I got some help on it from my instructor, and he told me not to count it, but feel it, if that makes sense. I listened to him and did that, it makes it so much easier... I play trumpet btw.
This horn part is godly
i play horn!!!! :D
Played French Horn part this year for this song, easily the best and most exciting song I've ever played!
Im playing that for mpa this year on horn
Nice, good luck
+Ember SAME!
this piece is amazing we are playing it for our marching show along with raphspody in blue by geroge gershwin wish us luck!
i play timpani on this song. Which means i get to FREAKIN WAIL ON IT!!!
Same! So much fun!!
So excited!!! My band is playing this and im lucky enough to play the sax solo
me too. it's pretty hard haha. That run at the end.
S/o to all horns who have played this. Amazing part!
the sax solo in this is freakin sexxxxyyyy.
puts every hair on end... jesus i miss high school nationals
I know right!
bass trombone rockin' those pedal A flats and B flats! sooooooo good!
I get to play that part and it’s godly
I will never, and I repeat NEVER, forget playing this my junior year of Symphony. Our percussion coordinator put is on multiple instruments because there wasn't enough of us to cover all the parts. I had to play bass and tamtam. My director let me play everything extra loud so I remember pounding the crap out of that Wuhan at the very end of the song.
I hope you mean junior of high school
I played this song my senior year in high school, and have been in love ever since. I play alto sax and played first chair. PERIOD.... the solo was mine and i killed it... had 4 full ride band scholarships just from them listening to me play this..... the horns and saxophone parts are the best!!!......
I happen to play the Alto and my school is playing this at our Spring concert. It is such an up lifting song for me. My favorite part would have to be measure 70 after the Sax solo.
+BCMdog I have a feeling it's because you didn;t ge the solo.
Eargasms here and there all over the place
This song = EPICNESS
You can't hear it very well here, but there is a sweet SWEET clarinet line that I had as first chair. LOVELY piece. Thanks for sharing
13 people are in bands who couldn't play this...
I played this song in my college concert band and I played alto 1. When we sight read that song and it came to that part for me I pretty much crapped myself. After long hours and blood sweat and tears I performed that solo successfully. It was worth it. Awesome song!!!
i would guess that this is my 25th or so time listening to this, i essentially just put this on repeat, its a fantastic piece
This song is freakin fun to play! never got to play it in a concert, but sight read it one day with my band and it was awesome!
How can you dislike this this is just purely amazing Samuel Hazo level 5 pieces are amazing.
I played the tuba... I LOVE the bass parts...
this a sweet song- he came to the senior allstate band two years ago and conducted, and the band played ride and rush, but ride is by far my fave. hazo is so talented!
Such an amazing flute part. Absolutely loved playing this my freshman year of high school!!
My band played this last year. And this year we're playing the sister piece, Rush... They're both so awesome!!! They end on the exact same note too... ((At the same time, if you play them at the same time.))
I played the sax solo - NY State Summer School of Orchestral Studies (SOS) 2008!! :) And 2 years earlier I played it with my high school, but on bassoon - what a fabulous piece!!!
Our symphonic band played it this year. the 1st alto sax part was kinda nuts. and the solo was AWESOME!!!
this piece is a beast I LOVED IT! i played it my freshman year in my high school wind ensemble. they took it to competition and blew the competitors away with it. i can remember being fully stunned when we finished playing the first time.
Our sax soloist for this piece is absolutely gorgeous. Favorite part, along with the woodwind licks following it, hands down.
I loved playing this piece!!!! I played mallets on this song. Mr. Hazo even visited us at our school (Benjamin E. Mays High) and conducted our Wind Symphony at our Conductor Symposium!!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!
our symphony is playing this... i'm glad i found this great recording!
My Highschool band might be playing this this year! We messed around with it last year, but decided on Arabesque and Olympiada. It's so much fun to play!
Gorgeous, gorgeous song. So much emotion throughout.
I'm scared to play this 1st trumpet part later this year cause I can already tell how difficult it is.......... God bless that horn player
omg. the sax solo always gets me. it's beautiful when played well. i will never forget this song. i always listen to it because it just makes me so happy
I was second alto in our wind ensemble when we performed this for our fall semester tour. Nice rippin' sax lines!
I played this in my all-state. Awesome song to play conducted by Col. Tim Foley best moments of my life.
We're doing this for our Spring Concert. e.O WISH US LUCK!!!!
1:07 = YES! And if you want to know if it's fun as hell to march, I'll let you know next month once we get it on the field! We did this piece in our highest level band a couple years ago... maybe we're crazy, but we're looking forward to this.
Played this my sophomore year and we killed it... I was new in our school's top band and I play alto... Our first chair killed it and to this day I'm in awe of him
played this a couple years ago. this and undertow have to be my two favorite of all the songs ive played.
the alto solo is also made for tenor. its optional. in the marching band im in we used alto and tenor. i played tenor part it was really fun
My high school played this in the first movement of our 2006 Marching Show, i must say it was pretty beastly.
wow i remenber playin this my freshmen year of high school... I was the only 9th grader in the symphonic band and was 2nd chair.
We did this for a marching show, this was our opener. So insanely awesome. Every band should be given the opportunity to march this.
played ride and shades of autumn for my marching show my sophmoer year and went to 3a state texas ... bad ass song! defiantly my favorite
@Skinker I think the sax solo is supposed to contrast with the surrounding melody...at least in my opinion. That's the feeling I got when I heard it. That, and the chills down my spine. I hope my band conductor picks this for Spring semester...we're playing Rush now...
Wow this is really awsome. Samuel hazo is a really good composer. I'll have to suggest this piece to our director for our senior piece!
I love playing this song in the symphonic band at my high school!
I played this with my high school wind ensemble my freshman year. We marched it the next fall. It was sooo fun. :)
Bless my little freshman clarinet heart oh goodness I'm in honors band and we're playing this at UIL contest and I just love it so much
I remember playing this piece in my university wind ensemble...fun times!
I remember playing at All State band with Mr. Hazo himself conducting us. Epic times, epic times...
Man this brings me back to freshman year of marching band.
I remember this piece of music fondly. It was difficult, but very very rewarding when we finally got it up to tempo. :sigh: Those were the good old days.
Gah, I missed this song by one year! They played it in the upper band my freshman year...
Freaking amazing music, I loved playing this for marching band last year.
The bass trombone part of this is so intense
We're playing this in band. Best french horn part ever, specially for a freshman :p
This was great. I have to perform this for a band, and this piece is perfect. The French horns and horns give a thoughtful tone to the music halfway through, and I liked it!😄👦 ✋ stars
played this with CSU Sacramento Concert Band, and it was one hell of a "Ride"
Shout out to all the tubas who have ever played this. I would bet good money that we all had the same reaction the first time we looked at the piece.
+ShotgunDolphin Haha it wasn't to bad for me atleast. A little practice and I got it.
The seniors at our school picked this song for the senior piece and man is it awsome! I play euphonium and it's totally a crazy new expierence and I totally have fun laughing at the tubas ripping the 16th notes.
I played this in my high school's wind ensemble, freakin awesome.
I played 1st trumpet for this song my freshman, it's very, very challenging, but you feel so good when you get it done and pull it off. It's an incredible piece of music, and all mature wind ensembles should play it at least once.
I loved playing this today. And of course this was great for me considering I am a horn player!
i played this song in high school. SO MUCH FUN TO PLAY!!!
I swear, after listening to the intro for the first time, my life changed...
I am going to have to put this on my community band!!!! This song is AWESOME!!!
tuba part is so amazingly amazing for this i could never play it enough
I marched this song for my show this year. It was pretty epic.
My band is performing this piece and my band director does her conducting with alot of expression and really fast so she almost has heart attacts at the end. Its an EPIC SONG!
One of my favorite pieces by Samuel Hazo
im playing that this year as a freschmen in high school wind ensemble its the first song we got
well all you guys out there i am in the New York philharmonic...we sightread this piece and got a perfect score on it...i am a trombone player and i would have to say that you guys have it pretty easy...besides the difference in key changes and frequent change in time signiatures...i encourage every band director in the US to try out this piece...it is a very nice piece
I play clarinet for this song and BOY HOWDY FEELS LIKE MY FINGERS ARE GOING TO FALL OFF! HOW DOES ONE PLAY ALL SORTS OF ACCIDENTATS THAT FAST
My band played this a few years ago and i must say in comparison we sounded pretty damn professional back then!
It's also in 3/4 for the first two measures then it switches to 2/4 the third measure then back to 3/4 in the fourth!
my band almost played this song. i'm in 8th grade and this is only our second year playing. for some people, it's their first year. so they cut it, unfortunately. its such a cool piece!!!
Well he was/is a percussionist. In our clinic with him he actually went back and played the timpani part for Olympiada to show them how to play it correctly. It was amazing, to say the least.
@56ratman it switches mulitple times throughout the whole piece, and there is definitely 7/8 measures in there, along with a few 6/8, and tons others...
marched this my freshman year, so difficult to keep your feet in time, but amazing song
I remember during my senior year, I had to play the xylophone part. I'm not go lie, and say that it was simple, cause it wasn't. It took me a while to get it down, but when I had it solid, I really started to enjoy playing the song.
Thumbs up to Rosa Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts!! We played this for a Competition at Hershey park in 2004. AMAZING PIECE!!! ::signing off:: your fellow trumpeteer
We're playing this in my highschool band. Although I love to listen to it, it's crazy hard to play for me (I play Clarinet).
YES!!! i get to play this for my band its a pretty freakin sweet song
This is why I will love Sam Hazo forever.
and in Exultate [which is great] he copies a mallet part that he used in novo lenio
if you saw the sheet music it's seriously the same notes with the same rhythm but different by 1 note
I absolutely love this piece! we played it for an all region clinic and it was by far my favorite piece that we played. The only bad part was that another tuba player missed an accidental and it sounded horrible... and was most definately caught on recording XD
Played this my junior year in high school. Band was barely 60 people, most of whom were barely out of 9th grade and maybe 5 seniors. It was a mock judging before competition and we got straight 1's right across the board.... feelsgoodman.jpg
We didn't have a Tuba player my senior year of HS so I got to play this on a Bass Guitar. XD I felt like freakin Geddy Lee. haha
definitley true, i like this on so i checked out his other stuff, the intros of his other songs are pretty identical
I played first in this song also and took it quite a toll on me and the 2nd chair in my school's second band 2 years ago. I was a freshman though and I was barely able to play any more high Cs in the last few measures luckily the Sophomore next to me kept it up haha. It doesn't seem so hard now that I look back at it lol. Yea, Hazo writes some crazy music.
im playing this in the national youth wind orchestra of wales
cannot wait!
gunna be sooo epic!
this is our closer this year, the show is entitled surviving the haze, olympiada is the opener followed by each time you tell their story then ride as a closer, its in a different arrange order but its still ride
Our marching band's, at Dorman High School, theme this year is Thrill Ride and we are playing this for our closer.
can't wait to play this in marching band next season!!!!!!
this solo is awesome to play, so much fun (1st Sax)
I was first chair oboe and my band director still let me play the sax solo :)
@ cow its alto and tenor :P and this song is very fun to march.
i lvoe this song because of the french horns part especially for those who have the music i believe its like measure 95? but i play the bass durm on this song and he has so much going on in this song he jus makes it exciting i love it
@xX251BlaQB0yXx It was fun as hell to march to. That was six years ago I marched to it and I still remember it as being one of my favorites.
Playing this song this year. i got the sheet music and was like WTF OMG HAX. I got some help on it from my instructor, and he told me not to count it, but feel it, if that makes sense. I listened to him and did that, it makes it so much easier... I play trumpet btw.