I played this piece with a municipal band years ago. The conductor of this group yelled with passion during rehearsal that our goal was to inspire a couple in the audience to make a baby after hearing the band play this piece. It’s unclear to this day if we were successful.
I have been looking for the score of this for so long, I played it an an honor band and it has remained my favorite concert band piece i have ever played. It was an honor band and I was covering all of the mallet parts myself. Very scary but it's a great piece.
Honey, the word is CONTRAPUNTAL! The back half of this is a demonstration in contrapuntal melody and just a straight banger. Commissioned and written for the United State Air Force band. You know there was 0% goofing off at the premiering 1985.
I swear... every piece from Alfred Reed that I have listened to have always been peak. From Greensleeves to this piece. Lets just say that Alfred Reed knows how to cook up some art.
Would love to play this someday! What a great piece! I've been suggesting it for years for our college community band to play it, but so far the director hasn't programmed it yet.
Hounds is better methinks. While I like some of the individual themes more in this, hounds has a much more compelling back half with the canon that turns into that beautiful climax. Also the lyrical section is more contained in Hounds. I'm only saying this because I see these two pieces as peas in a pod.
They both sound so Reed to me. For example 6:30 - 6:45 gives the same feel as part of Hounds. I love Reed's work Edit: see the measures leading up to 135 of The Hounds of Spring, with the hit at 135. IDENTICAL if you ask me
Roger Nixon's "Fiesta del Pacifico" composed almost 20 years before this is such a harmonically and melodically more sophisticated and elegant work for band/wind ensemble based around the same sort of thematic material. It's clear that Reed had heard that Nixon work many times over the intervening 20 year period, and was eventually inspired to write this weaker, less complex, and watered down work...
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I played this piece with a municipal band years ago. The conductor of this group yelled with passion during rehearsal that our goal was to inspire a couple in the audience to make a baby after hearing the band play this piece.
It’s unclear to this day if we were successful.
Just assume y'all were successful
What a weird thing to say
I have been looking for the score of this for so long, I played it an an honor band and it has remained my favorite concert band piece i have ever played. It was an honor band and I was covering all of the mallet parts myself. Very scary but it's a great piece.
wait till you find out about arabesque
@@ilovehomies Hazo's Arabesque aint got nothing on El Camino
@@dameez6599 NAHHHH 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@ilovehomies freerabesque
I love the hell out of Samuel Hazo (and Arabesque is easily his best!) but nothing compares to Alfred Reed!
Honey, the word is CONTRAPUNTAL! The back half of this is a demonstration in contrapuntal melody and just a straight banger. Commissioned and written for the United State Air Force band. You know there was 0% goofing off at the premiering 1985.
THE HORNS GOIN CRAZY FR
i absolutely love this piece. woodwinds at 1:31 are insane
I swear... every piece from Alfred Reed that I have listened to have always been peak. From Greensleeves to this piece. Lets just say that Alfred Reed knows how to cook up some art.
NHK交響楽団演奏やな＾＾ 完璧すぎる＾＾
Would love to play this someday! What a great piece! I've been suggesting it for years for our college community band to play it, but so far the director hasn't programmed it yet.
This is my favourite Alfred Reed piece.
I played this in 1995/98 at the university of Miami all county honors band. My favorite!
本当に素晴らしい曲です
My highschool band is currently playing the watered down version of this. Praying ifi. Get into honour band we play tgis version
This price makes me a happy horn player
The horn lines are crazy
8:03 (don't mind me timestamping where we skip to)
Hounds is better methinks. While I like some of the individual themes more in this, hounds has a much more compelling back half with the canon that turns into that beautiful climax. Also the lyrical section is more contained in Hounds. I'm only saying this because I see these two pieces as peas in a pod.
I'll make a video of Hounds one day!
They both sound so Reed to me. For example 6:30 - 6:45 gives the same feel as part of Hounds. I love Reed's work
Edit: see the measures leading up to 135 of The Hounds of Spring, with the hit at 135. IDENTICAL if you ask me
I am currently playing this on 2nd Clarinet as a Freshman with not a lot of experience with this stuff. Help me.
oh no how'd it go
my high school going crazy this year we got this on the first day of school wish me luck
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大学の定期演奏会で音楽家の先生の指揮で吹いたことあるのに、
230小節目からの旋律群の動き以外、譜面見てもこんなことやってたっけ？
と浦島太郎状態だった（トロンボーン3）記憶喪失かも
one of my favorite piece..new friend here
cool basson thing 5:03
start of euphonium soli 6:35
based Reed
Amazing!
sad I preformed this as I don't think ill ever play a better piece
I got to play the harp part on my piano
👍
Roger Nixon's "Fiesta del Pacifico" composed almost 20 years before this is such a harmonically and melodically more sophisticated and elegant work for band/wind ensemble based around the same sort of thematic material. It's clear that Reed had heard that Nixon work many times over the intervening 20 year period, and was eventually inspired to write this weaker, less complex, and watered down work...
1:30
0:57
4:41
8:27
0:33
Very little of this is "Latin". A better title would have been "Spanish Fantasy".
9:36
4:42
4:17
1:30
3:30
5:02