This song, written by Sam Hazo is a commemoraive to his father Dr. Sam Hazo, state poet of Pennsylvania who wrote a poem of the same title. The middle part is meant to have his work read aloud. For those of you unfamiliar with it... "No soldiers choose to die. It's what they risk by being who and what they are. It's what they dare while saving someone else whose life means suddenly as much to them as theirs. Or more. To honor them why speak of duty or the will of governments? Think first of love each time you tell their story. It gives their sacrifice a name and takes from war its glory." ~Dr. Samuel J. Hazo It is truly a heart wrenching piece of music to accompany a profoundly deep look at war. I was honored to play this as a member of the 2004 PMEA District 1 honors band in High School first clarinet.
I'd hate to see anyone dislike this, it's such a beautiful piece. We're playing it this year for a veteran's concert, and I'm hoping our performance can gain such quality before show time. The winds fading out symbolizes the end of life, and the chimes symbolize the love that remains when all else is gone. There's such a deep meaning to the arrangement...
We're playing this for our Veteran's Day concert next week. Personally, it's one of my favorites because it's so emotional. I came close to crying today when we played it today, it's just so beautiful, especially the end with the wind chimes.
we played this for our marching show this year. it won us the Espirit de Corpes award at nationals. i always thought it was a bit slow for marching, but when we played it really well, it brought tears to people's eyes
A group of band and orchestra students from my school wen to DC last spring to perform and participate in the National Festval of the States and we took this song with us and I love it so much. It's probably my absolute favorite out of all of the songs we've played.
My son played this piece for high school and were honored to play it in Washington, DC this past year on Memorial Day at the Naval Museum. Very moving piece and well done. Thanks for posting it. I will post the one they played in DC soon and there is one song of it played here in SC.
Absolutely amazing song! were playing this at our concert this winter. This is such a powerful and beautiful song. im playing 2nd Saxaphone because im a freshman, but im ready for this sing and i will enjoy playing it
im at Clearwater high and we r playing this for the Smokey Mountains Music Festival this Friday and it sounds totally Awesome!! XD i told enjoy this song when we play it in class and our last 2 practices that we had!
My high school band is going to play this peice! Sam was actually just at my school today working with us on one of the harder peices called "Diamond Fnafare" it was awesome having him there!!
I wish I couldve had the trumpet solo but i was just a freshman i had trumpet one though on everything (12 songs) our 9-12 high school band played this last month it was beautiful I love his pieces we also played arabesque that was my favorite but the trumpet 1 part was HARD
We Just Performed This For Our Spring Concert... Our Band Sucked Because It Was Mainly Freshman And A Few Upperclassmen... I Am A Senior And Had The Taps Solo... I Was So Nervous!!! So My First Note Was Really Flat!!! One Of My Friends Played In This Janfest Ensemble With This... He Plays Horn... Bo Dungan... Hes Pretty Good
Our Wind Ensamble played this song, but instead of reading the poem in the middle, they had students pick quotes from whatever resources they were able to find about war. They selected 3 people to read them throughout the song, at 0:07, 1:20, and 2:56.
This is the possible opener for my 2013 marching show...not sure what the marching arrangement will be like. Should be cool though! Not sure what we are doing for the narration part either.
no soldier chooses to die, its what they risk for who and where they are, its what they dare. so why honor them with talk of honor and the will of governments, think of love each time you tell their story, it gives their sacrafice a name, and takes from war. ITS GLORY! thats our poem during this song this year
"all gave some, some gave all." lets not put posts bout whos playing this song, or when you have played it, but remember thoes who have fallen in battle. im sure you all did a fantastic job playing this song, but lets forget about that and remember.
Oh kool, I like playing picc but i haven't in like a year or so, usually I"m on 1st too and I was when we did a district clinic and played this song, but they had me on 2nd when we did the Region clinic, because there wasn't enough flutes
well im on 1st flute but for county the yput me on 2nd, idc becuz only 13 flutes in all of my county could go and only 2 from my school. so idc as long as i was picked, which i dont mind becuz this song is just regular flute, i also have the piccolo part becuase i might have to play it on that, but i wont find out till the day of
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I played it as a freshman and I never really liked this song. I hated playing it even if my part was nice. I just wasn't touched by it like everyone else was. Out of all of Mr. Hazo's songs I hated this one. I liked Psalm 42 better.
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This song, written by Sam Hazo is a commemoraive to his father Dr. Sam Hazo, state poet of Pennsylvania who wrote a poem of the same title. The middle part is meant to have his work read aloud. For those of you unfamiliar with it...
"No soldiers choose to die.
It's what they risk by being who and
what they are.
It's what they dare while saving
someone else whose life means
suddenly as much to them as theirs.
Or more.
To honor them
why speak of duty or the will of governments?
Think first of love
each time you tell their story.
It gives their sacrifice a name
and takes from war its glory."
~Dr. Samuel J. Hazo
It is truly a heart wrenching piece of music to accompany a profoundly deep look at war. I was honored to play this as a member of the 2004 PMEA District 1 honors band in High School first clarinet.
I'd hate to see anyone dislike this, it's such a beautiful piece. We're playing it this year for a veteran's concert, and I'm hoping our performance can gain such quality before show time. The winds fading out symbolizes the end of life, and the chimes symbolize the love that remains when all else is gone. There's such a deep meaning to the arrangement...
We're playing this for our Veteran's Day concert next week. Personally, it's one of my favorites because it's so emotional. I came close to crying today when we played it today, it's just so beautiful, especially the end with the wind chimes.
we played this for our marching show this year. it won us the Espirit de Corpes award at nationals. i always thought it was a bit slow for marching, but when we played it really well, it brought tears to people's eyes
A group of band and orchestra students from my school wen to DC last spring to perform and participate in the National Festval of the States and we took this song with us and I love it so much. It's probably my absolute favorite out of all of the songs we've played.
i love this song!! we played it my 8th grade year in the county band. i was 2nd chair alto sax! hearing this brings back some good memories.
We played this today at our Veteran's day program. This song is so beautiful.
My son played this piece for high school and were honored to play it in Washington, DC this past year on Memorial Day at the Naval Museum. Very moving piece and well done. Thanks for posting it. I will post the one they played in DC soon and there is one song of it played here in SC.
Absolutely amazing song! were playing this at our concert this winter. This is such a powerful and beautiful song. im playing 2nd Saxaphone because im a freshman, but im ready for this sing and i will enjoy playing it
im at Clearwater high and we r playing this for the Smokey Mountains Music Festival this Friday and it sounds totally Awesome!! XD
i told enjoy this song when we play it in class and our last 2 practices that we had!
i was at a honor band festival today and had the honor of reciting the poem.
it really is quite moving :)
My high school band is going to play this peice! Sam was actually just at my school today working with us on one of the harder peices called "Diamond Fnafare" it was awesome having him there!!
I played the Snare Drum part. This piece is so beautiful, I could hardly breathe afterwards.
We sightread this in class today.
Ialmost cried.
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It's so pretty.
beautiful piece of music
i love this piece
Our band played this song and I loved it , but ya'll are really good
I love how you can actually HEAR the xylophone. Us xylophonists are so often forgotten!! :D
I wish I couldve had the trumpet solo but i was just a freshman i had trumpet one though on everything (12 songs) our 9-12 high school band played this last month it was beautiful I love his pieces we also played arabesque that was my favorite but the trumpet 1 part was HARD
I really like this piece, it's very emotional and we played it at a Clinic a couple of weeks ago. XD I play flute
I''m going to be playing this this saturday at district 5. =)
I played with and personally met Sam Hazo this weekend at the MS All-State Band clinic.
We Just Performed This For Our Spring Concert... Our Band Sucked Because It Was Mainly Freshman And A Few Upperclassmen... I Am A Senior And Had The Taps Solo... I Was So Nervous!!! So My First Note Was Really Flat!!! One Of My Friends Played In This Janfest Ensemble With This... He Plays Horn... Bo Dungan... Hes Pretty Good
I'm in the jefferson forest band... we played this, exultate, and sevens for our show
I'm gonna play this in band in a few weeks or so and then for memorial day, i play the bass clarinet part in our middle skool band
this is part of our marching show this year
Our Wind Ensamble played this song, but instead of reading the poem in the middle, they had students pick quotes from whatever resources they were able to find about war. They selected 3 people to read them throughout the song, at 0:07, 1:20, and 2:56.
This is the possible opener for my 2013 marching show...not sure what the marching arrangement will be like. Should be cool though! Not sure what we are doing for the narration part either.
no soldier chooses to die, its what they risk for who and where they are, its what they dare. so why honor them with talk of honor and the will of governments, think of love each time you tell their story, it gives their sacrafice a name, and takes from war. ITS GLORY! thats our poem during this song this year
"all gave some, some gave all."
lets not put posts bout whos playing this song, or when you have played it, but remember thoes who have fallen in battle. im sure you all did a fantastic job playing this song, but lets forget about that and remember.
Oh kool, I like playing picc but i haven't in like a year or so, usually I"m on 1st too and I was when we did a district clinic and played this song, but they had me on 2nd when we did the Region clinic, because there wasn't enough flutes
awesome
we played this for county band it's soo pretty i was 2nd Alto Sax =]
i played 1st flute on this
its soooo pretty
i get to play this in county band, is the flute part fun becuz thats what i play:]
Playing this in All-County :)
mine too!
yeah, there's some high parts and a few triplet rhythyms that were a lil different - atleast for me - but, I think you'll like it
somehow my band is supposed do a marching show to this, sevens and exultate
Hmmmm. Ya kno there IS a timpani part that I play. Where is it???
well im on 1st flute but for county the yput me on 2nd, idc becuz only 13 flutes in all of my county could go and only 2 from my school. so idc as long as i was picked, which i dont mind becuz this song is just regular flute, i also have the piccolo part becuase i might have to play it on that, but i wont find out till the day of
The Starnes band? So what, David Starnes is a rock star now?
All county LEE FLORIDA 2011
Where are the chimes at 0:39?
im in 7th grade and im doin this for VETERANS DAY ^.^ WISH ME LUCK PEOPLE
@topilopi123 say what now?
yeah I am why?
wind band needs more credit as an ensemble than it's given, not to bash orchestra though.
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I played it as a freshman and I never really liked this song. I hated playing it even if my part was nice. I just wasn't touched by it like everyone else was. Out of all of Mr. Hazo's songs I hated this one. I liked Psalm 42 better.
Try using the so called "not capitalizing every word." Look it up.
Sorry, I just had to say that.
... You Should Try Writing Correctly. You've Only Had At Least Eleven Years Of English Education... Try Using The So-Called "Sentence Capitalization." Look It Up.
ugh the trumpets just suck!!