The USAF Band Holiday Flash Mob at the National Air and Space Museum 2013
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ATTENTION BAND/ORCHESTRA/CHORAL DIRECTORS! The score and parts to SMSgt Bob Thurston's extraordinary Holiday Flash Mob arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Joy to the World" are available as FREE downloads through the following links. Please share and enjoy with your own ensembles!
Score:
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Individual Parts:
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Special thanks to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum for supporting this endeavor.
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Also thanks to The United States Air Force Honor Guard who assisted with the unveiling of our flash mob.
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Have you ever noticed that when a group like this starts playing spontaneously, everybody around starts smiling. When this group starts playing with such beauty, such power, such professionalism people fight to hold back the tears. This music, this band, like the US Navy band, touches people deeply. They speak with the power of love, beauty and hope and bring pride to our nation.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Happy holidays to you and your family!
God Bless America 🇺🇸
American Pride Word Wide!!!!!!!!!!777
Amen
Nope. I cry freely
I've watched this video every year since someone sent me the link back in 2013. I start my holidays with this viewing. Very proud to have served in the USAF!
I am happy to say that I watch it every year too and I post it to share the joy with others each year as well. This performance still makes me cry every time!!!
Thank you for your service! I also watch it every year and sometimes during the year as well if the mood strikes me :) Make sure you copy this somehow in case they ever take it down. SO MANY times I have a favorite video and then BOOOM, its gone. I have a backup just in case :)
USAF 1969-1973 thank you for your service
It was an honor!
Thank you for your service!
With all that has happened this year, we NEED this in 2020.
It made me cry. No matter what one believes or doesn't, the music is beautiful, and speaks to everyone.
Dan Bridston
One of the beauties of humanity
You are correct 💛🎶
Me too, Dan!
Wow 👏 😮
lol
I lose it every time I watch this video. The songs, by themselves--but then there's family lost in service to the U.S. and to the Crown, and yup, I lose it. Thank you, USAF Band.
The reaction of the children to classical flash mob music always gets to me. They get it right to their innards body and soul.
After watching this I am extra proud of having been a member of the US Air Force. You guys make me super proud of my service.
Cool story bro.
I consider it the best 'flashmob' performance of all time.
Thank u 4 ur cervix
Me too. One of the snare drummers for Keesler AFB Drum & Bugle Corps, 1955. Served later as an automatic tracking radar tech for SAC until my discharge in late 1958. They were four of the best years of my life. I'm now 84.
Same here as a veteran of The US Navy.
This is the part of America we can be proud of. Merry Christmas to our military and their families!!
WOW! USAF! Thank you from our family whose Dad was an F-80 pilot shot down over North Hell Korea and spent 14 months as a POW! Glorious! Wonderful! Praise God! Love you, Daddy!
After 30 years in the military (and still serving) this brought tears to my eyes. So, to all my fellow airmen serving away from home this holiday season...Merry Christmas and stay safe!
Thank you for your service
My heart is full of pride for our military.
I am a retired Army veteran.
My son serves in the Army.
My son serves in the Air Force.
We would have it no other way.
May God continue to bless this nation with those who would go into harms way for this nation.
I think this is the best RUclips video ever made. Period.
@Hello Don how are you doing
Praying that the 573 grinchs who disliked this get a heart for Christmas 💖
Not only was this one fabulous performance but the happy smiles on the faces of the onlookers made it all so much worthwhile. Good on ya Yanks!
LOVE this video! As a Christian & the wife of a career USAF musician, I just couldn't be prouder / happier to see this amazing video. What a way to celebrate Christmas! Thanks so much for posting this . . . I'll show my husband right away.
I cannot get enough of this. I feel the Spirit every time I watch it. I just love love tove this!
I've watched this several times, and I cry everytime! Wish I could have seen this in person, or even better, played in the band!
@Hello Paul how are you doing
What a special treat those visitors to the museum got that day! The Air Force band is a class act, how can this not bring a smile to your face!
Thank you for the high praise!
My wife and I were there and it was an incredibly wonderful experience! I truly wish circumstances were different and these flash concerts could happen once again so others could experience these wonderful musicians. I truly enjoy watching the Colonel so obviously enjoying what he is doing as well!
I started crying when this played. Helped me out tremendously in an article I’ve been cooking up. Thank you to the wonderful airmen of the U.S. Air Force Band. ❤️
From an old RAF guy. Absolutely super stuff. Thank you
all.
It is just as good in 2019 as it was when performed. Thank you
Each and every service
member. God Bless America
The United States Air Force Band playing CHRISTMAS music! Makes me proud to be an American! Merry Christmas to all!
The world needs more music randomly popping up out of no where. Flash mobs in public settings where no one expects are truly magical.
Also those trumpets!!!! Goosebumps! They make me want to pick up my trumpet again after I set it aside for half a year since graduating high school.
Thanks for watching! Never too late to pick it up again!
It's particularly gratifying to see and hear such beauty coming from America's finest, with Apollo 11 and the "Spirit of St. Louis" in the background.
This brings a smile to your face and awe to your heart."God Bless America"!
unbelievably beautiful!!! USAF, if you can only hear me clapping.....i shed a tear of delight and admiration.....thank you for the honour and pleasure of viewing this and listening to this.....with much prayers for the wellbeing of everyone of you in the U.S. Air Force!!!
The last chord is sublime. Perfectly rounded. So good I needed my headphones.
A HUGE smile on my face and a couple of tears!
It's unbelievable how much these men and women do for their country!!!
Being an alumni of the AF bands program (stationed at Wright-Patt Sept '84- Oct '92 & Hanscom Oct '92- Oct '94), this makes me extremely proud to call myself an Air Force musician! Well done Col. Lang & members of the AF DC band.
Jerry Smith, tuba
Tacoma Concert Band
I look this up every year when close to the holidays a little early this year. It always boosts my spirits.
After seeing this last year, I remembered it instantly. It is a most beautiful presentation of the Joy of Christmas done by such a skilled group of musicians by the men and women who so wonderfully give of their time & lives to protect us and our freedoms. Awesome!!!!
That's me at 3:40! This was the most amazing thing to witness!
I like how it all started with one lone cellist, and then built from there to the crescendo at the end. I was crying tears of joy and delight by the end. And my salute not only to these fine USAF musicians, but whoever did the arrangement as well. Spot ON :)
Yet another reason to love our Military! Such devoted and talented individuals! Makes me very proud to be an American. Would have been the best day every to have witnessed this in person.
saw it ten times but still loving it.tears!!what a super B performance.greetings from the netherlands......
@Hello How are you doing dear
I spent 5 years in the Air Force and loved every minute of it. The USAF band is the best of the service bands!
One of the most
Tranquil and peaceful
Pieces of music ever
Written, my most
Favorite. I enjoy
This video very much...
I am a Air force
Vetran.
Thank you.
For inspiration I keep coming back to this incredible presentation at different times during the years since 2013. A GREAT Salute to the Dedicated and Professional Members who gifted us with their wonderful talents!
So beautiful, thank God he created so many talented people.
Awesome! You guys & gals make me proud to have been a part of the USAF! God bless you all! And
Thanks for serving!
It makes me very proud to be a former member of a USAF band from 1969-1973. A very Merry Christmas to all my friends and family and to our troops who serve so that all this is possible in the greatest (but not perfect) country.
Thank you for your service, absolutely! May I ask what instrument you played?
there is nothing more delightful than something unexpected and profoundly beautiful
I cried by the end of this! One of the most beautiful performances I've ever heard! Thank you soooo much for sharing! I'm so proud of our Air Force!
Absolutely beautiful! Lovely piece played well and with feeling.
The looks of joy, both on the guests as well as the airmen in the band, is perfection.
Thank you for this beautiful interlude. And may all our military be kept safe and soon reunited with those they love.
What a great band/orchestra; the love of my musical life.
@Hello Darry how are you doing
Beautiful music by the Air Force Band. . .. .I was in the U.S. Air Force, too, so this is special to me.
Beautiful! Got a little misty eyed there!
For Jesus is the reason for the season. Thank you USAF Band.
This was totally amazing!
Why am I crying, dang it! Great job, wish I could have been in the crowd.
So nice, thanks to the men and women of the USAF for your service and for this great Christmas treat!
Thanks for this, I belonged to Lutheran church of over a thousand member in a town of 500, we opened our Christmas morning service with this song,sang by three choirs and brass band playing, and the organist playing znd the congregation singing as loud as they could. We would shake the rafters of the gothic 100 year old church, one of the fondest and most beautiful memories of my youth in Bode Iowa.
What a beautiful gift to give to the people; outstanding performance!
my dad is in this as one of the singers ryan dolan
Brother airmen.
Good for him ma'am.
Kathryn Dolan Your Dad has to be very good, there’s a great deal of competition for those positions. I’m sure you’re very proud of him.
Cool!
How awesome to be a part. What a gift to all those there!
Makes me teary-eyed just to watch the low-res video of this. Good thing I wasn't there--I probably would have passed out.
Absolutely beautiful... wish I had been there to see it in person.
What a great Christmas Gift! Thank You USAF Band you Crushed it.....
In 1970, I had the pleasure of playing with the USAF Band in Panama, S.A. It was one of the highlights of my music career! A side by side concert with the Band and the Balboa High School Band and Orchestra.....will never forget it!!!!!
I was here this day on a field trip. 2 of my classmates actually walk through frame at 3:32. Now 6 years later I’m awaiting my ship date for Air Force BMT
Yes! Congratulations!! Welcome to the world's greatest Air Force! Good luck and Aim High! ✈️
Where are you at now? That is interesting that you were there I’m former Air Force myself and was just curious.
Only the human soul, filled with the Grace from Almighty God can produce results like this. Awesome, thank you USAF
Beautiful music, the singing was enough to bring tears to my eyes. Yes, we need more JOY TO THE WORLD!!
Love & Peace, Elizabeth Basile
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Thank you Mr. Bach and the USAF Band for this testament to who Jesus Christ is. Thank you Jesus for what you did and who you are.
I cried a little. This was so beautifully done. I'm a violinist.
Me too. I am a former flute player. Go Air Force!
Trombone! :D
Baritone!
Flute!
Aldrin Bula Started trombone, did several years on baritone, switched to trumpet when "No pass - No Play" went into effect in Texas basically wiping out the entire trumpet section.. Thanks H. Ross Perot...
Brought tears to my eyes. So moving! Thank you thank you thank you! Thank you for ALL YOU DO for your country, for US!
Amazing, amazing, amazing! Wonderful choice of music and a perfect arrangement. Thank you for choosing the beautiful traditional music for this event. Well done and Go Air Force!
An exceptional musical performance, very moving and something I have watched numerous times.
Isn't this wonderful!!!!! Beautiful job!
I watch this every year and it puts me in the Christmas spirit every time, and I tear up because its so awesome a performance. Send it someone you love. It will make their day.
Speechless. A most beautiful heart rendering performance. I imagine that all those USAF gifted musicians went through basic training, capable of defending their country if need be.
Only a heathen would denounce this. Poor souls.
My fellow Airmen at their best....Thank you!
Oh , how Wonderfully Beautiful !!!! Thank you for this lovely appearance and your service .
Goosebumps and tears in my eyes, every time a I watch this. What incredible account is for the horns.
I'm an atheist and I loved the song and the presentation.
Go USAF band. Great job!
Bach is always a joy.
An Athiest, A Crossfitter, and a Vegitarian walk into a bar... how do you know? Because they announce it as soon as it can be shoe-horned into conversation.
Wonderful! Great seasonal reminder for the men and women who serve and protect our great nation!
This is so fracking beautiful. I am so proud of my USAF.
What a beautiful moment of worship of our Lord Jesus by Our USAF Band during our Christmas Season 2013.
You are a living tribute to the greatness of this Nation! Thank you so much! Staggeringly beautiful!! Brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you Servicemen and Servicewomen -- your sacrifice, as well as your families', does not go unnoticed!! I just hope it keeps being funded. Just look at those decorations -- these folks are not just amazing musicians. They Defend This Nation. God Speed!!
Yeah, my eyes teared up watching this. I am a real man.
Really nice job! I appreciate how you took the time to bring a little joy to everyone's day!! God Bless.
I love a good flash mob with great music, singing &/or dancing, even though I usually end up tearing up over the grand spectacle (wonderful tears!). I respect and honor the military and appreciate all the sacrifices they and their families make for us… Thank You! I also thank you for sharing such wonderful surprise to the people visiting the National Air and Space Museum. What a thrilling treat for them! Thanks for sharing on RUclips so everyone can enjoy your talents! Bravo to all involved!
My husband is a proud Air Force vet, we both loved this. It exemplifies God and Country.
for you and your husband thank you both for serving our beloved country
Brought tears to my eyes. God bless our military and their families. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for your service, and for sharing your talents with us!
I am moved almost beyond words by this performance! I have to admit that it literally brought tears to my eyes to see and hear such a beautiful rendition by our Air Force Band that gives honor to and recognizes The Lord as King during this Christmas season! I wish I had been there in person and I want to thank Colonel Larry H. Lang, Commander and Conductor, and the members of the Air Force Band for such an awesome and soul stirring performance and video production.
Beautiful! I was definitely crying... I love these kind of flash mobs!
Astonishing and powerful. The 2014 from the Dulles Air & Space location is also magnificent.
@Hello Steve how are you doing
Totally awesome and thanks to the USAF Band and Chorus and a blessed and happy Christmas to each of you and your families. God bless you and God bless America!
Gave me goosebumps...Thanks for making it happen for us.
This Air Force Band Concert was spell-binding! The sounds were so powerful. Just look at the onlookers' faces, and the young children. Truly, thankfully, awesome!
The best of all their presentations. I love watching it. Thank you so much to you all making that day wonderful. People were so happy watching you guys and your viewers at RUclips. I keep playing this video most of the time. And most of all thank you for your service to our country❤️🙏
Beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. Well done!!!!
First flash mob I've seen with instrumental and voice. I thought this was beautiful and very well done. Great job guys! :)
The 618 dislikes are from people who don't respect our Air Force and wouldn't know excellent holiday music performed by one of the most professional musical ensembles in our entire military!
Just beautiful! The playing brought a tear to my eye:)
5 years later and still gives me the chills. Great performance of a great work.
A civilization, a culture that can produce such music. That can present it in such a fashion and do so in just such a public space is worthy of admiration not the repudiation it so routinely suffers.
God bless you for your service and for your band's wonderful holiday flash mob concert!!!
Beautiful -- brought tears to my eyes!
Very moving. Beautifully done. I like the way they kind of appeared like magic & by the end of the performance they were in ordered ranks. This was done with a lot of class.