I’m not sure how much of this is how we hear them happy and major so much and when it gets twisted our brains think it’s spooky. But yeah you’re totally right.
The composer is a saxophone player. I competed against him at Texas Music Educators Association All-State band tryouts in 1979. He got 1st chair, I got third (which was considered alternate).
@@excalibur1812 That's cool. I found myself listening to this because I'm playing this in Wind Ensemble and me being first chair I get the solo and wow it sounds amazing. I hope I can play it just as good. I'm a sophomore in highschool.
@@hopeboland3116 It's alto sax. I'm playing it for my winter concert in Wind Ensemble. I'm talking about the solo of the second page not the first part of the piece.
I just realized that the reason I don't like christmas music is because it's all in major key, and way too sugary sweet for me Minor key makes it 10000000x better
Such a glorious celebration of Christmas music from all over...the arrangement is reminiscent of the wonderfully whimsical mind of Leroy Andersom. So professionally performed . Great talents! Thank you so much...made my Christmas Day!
there's actually string bass in here! i play tuba and my bd wants me to learn string and electric bass so i played the tuba and string bass parts on tuba for our concert :)
@@rachelmarrone much sad! This is a piece that has an actual string bass part, as opposed to just doubling the tubas, and its different from the tuba part .... it makes this poor string bassists heart happy (because i'm so used to bloody tuba charts 😂😂)
So our band director handed it out and I was joking around and said "Who wants the timpani part, I don't think I can do this" (it's really easy btw) and the percussion section just starts flipping their lids like "HOLY SHIT IF SHE CAN'T PLAY IT NOBODY CAN OH GOD" today I made the world accidentally burn whoopie
I absolutely LOVE the saxophone solo at the beginning of the waltz section when it played "Here Comes Santa Claus!" Whoever was playing on that night was perfect in their execution; I've learned to match my humming to its distinctive timbre whenever I (re)listen to this. I played this as trumpet when I was a sophomore at university. The section gave me a chance to recollect my chops before the final section (I played second part)
This is what Christmas music sounds like for folks working in retail. I speak from experience after first hearing this after a working a shift at home depot around black friday.
All these songs have a minor song associated with them like Swan Lake for the sax solo section, chimney for jingle bells, etc. In minor alterations 2, the composer pairs oh holy night with ride of the Valkyries, and joy to the world with that one Serbian song I can't remember the name of.
Lol well tbh, I would too :)) I guess their show has something to do with a Christmas-y feeling and omg that would sound so awesome! ITS LIKE AN ORCHESTRAL CHRISTMAS FOR MARCHING XDDDDDDD
Ahhh, damn. A player who played it 12 days ago (or so), I play this December 7th and… I’m looking forward to playing this. I play 2nd part, but I was supposed to receive 3rd part, but I hope it was amazing to perform
For Texas that is really good. I know that is a competitive state for lots of things. You would’ve gotten first in so many other states, probably over half of them.
My old high school band played this at their concert and I'm mad cause it's really hard taking their music cause it's too cool to not play again much less to leave alone!! P.S. Minor Christmas music is the best!!!!!!
Shostakovich 2nd Waltz is in there. So crazy. I am playing this in community band this year. Sight read if last night. This took a lot of theory knowledge to make this work.
There are a lot of quotes. Sally's Song is one of them, also Shostakovich's Waltz No.2, the Looney Tunes theme song, If I Were a Rich Man and several others. I love this piece to no end.
My community brass band is playing an all-brass arrangement of this song, it’s so weird but so fun. I love the ending where it transitions to the nutcracker after here we come a wassailling
I can’t relate. My band director was supposed to give me the 3rd/Bass part, but I’m playing the first/second part (only difference is splits, we just play the bottom ones), so I will never sadly get to see what it looks like
my flute band is playing this year. I'm on piccolo ;) and I'm gonna play flute for any parts only flutes play and picc doesn't cuz I have many rests lol
Keegan your collage concert! wow it sounds great! I love collages! you can put so many pictures all together at once! lmao learn how to spell college if you're in college
Carson Cloud lmao maybe you should look at other definitions of collage or maybe ask me what I meant before you look like a dumbass. A collage, while also being a piece of art made of various things, it can also be a collection of things, such a the band, orchestra, and choir coming together for one concert instead of 3 different ones.
When sightreading this I did t realise it was cut time instead of common time till measure 55 and had a oh sh*t moment in my head when they wer already at measure 110 .
sadly I don’t play flute, but I know a lot of friends who do, and they say they all… dread it… I understand the idea of playing flute and see why it is difficult, but damn… it is… painful to look at their music… (I play trombone btw)
Our band in Bromyard (England) has been in existence for 42 years, and tonight was the first time we've ever had a cor (English horn) solo, playing this piece.
I had listened to this piece before, and when I was told my school was doing it for a concert, I was extremely happy. I play alto sax, so I'm not excited for the little solo:/
Sword art online Fan it's super easy 🙂 I'm playing it this year for my christmas concert and I got to play it because they wanted to challenge me as a freshman
I always wished ballet studios would do a little preshow before the nutcracker with droselmeyer’s toys and the mice just scheming and partying to this while everyone’s asleep
Would anyone happen to know a full song-by-song or track-by-track list of what songs are featured in this piece from beginning to end? I wish that the score/info about the piece had some sort of breakdown, but it doesn't.
if youre still interested: 1. deck the halls 2. up on the housetop 3. santa claus is coming to town 4. jolly old st. nicholas 5. here comes santa claus 6. we wish you a merry christmas 7. silver bells 8. jingle bells 9. rudolph 10. sleigh ride 11. here we come a wassailing 12. nutcracker
@@mittromney568 I love this piece. The puns were inescapable: 1. Hit the deck 2. Up on the housetop, reindeer prowl 3. Krampus is coming to town 4. Grouchy old St. Nicholas + Sally's song from Nightmare Before Christmas 5. Here lies Santa Claus + Shostakovich Waltz #2 from Jazz Suite 6. Bring us some liver pudding 7. For whom the silver bell tolls + Chim chim cheree from Mary Poppins 8. Fleeing through the snow + Chim chim cheree from Mary Poppins 9. Rudolph the red-eyed reindeer 10. Hearse ride (maybe + traffic from American in Paris by Bernstein?) 10.5 Echo carol, the lost verse: Do you smell what I smell? 11. Here we come a wassailing among the poison ivy 12. Kalashnikov dance by Tchaikovsky's evil twin + Hit the deck, reprise
I'm playing this with my band now and it honestly sounds straight of a Nightmare Before Christmas
We just started playing it today, and we said the EXACT SAME THING
@@hopeboland3116 same tho we started yesterday
Honestly from T to the end I just fake i don’t want to deal with it my band director doesn’t even notice
dang all these people have played it before me and now i get to feel the same thing with this song and a bass clarinet :)
We’re actually playing a piece called that along with this one
I never realized how creepy and sinister Christmas carols sound when they're in a minor key
That's really any song.
Dillon Ohlemiller
I’m not sure how much of this is how we hear them happy and major so much and when it gets twisted our brains think it’s spooky. But yeah you’re totally right.
That sax solo is just magnificent!
Agreed
The composer is a saxophone player. I competed against him at Texas Music Educators Association All-State band tryouts in 1979. He got 1st chair, I got third (which was considered alternate).
@@excalibur1812 That's cool. I found myself listening to this because I'm playing this in Wind Ensemble and me being first chair I get the solo and wow it sounds amazing. I hope I can play it just as good. I'm a sophomore in highschool.
It's actually clarinet solo, we just started playing it in band today
@@hopeboland3116 It's alto sax. I'm playing it for my winter concert in Wind Ensemble. I'm talking about the solo of the second page not the first part of the piece.
Minor keys make everything sound better 👌
Indeed
This piece is SO much fun to play! Though those runs in the beginning took some time to get up to speed, lol. Shout out to my Oboe players out there!!
Hello my fellow oboe!
@@naddollie Aye!! Our breed is rare but awesome! I don't know how many times someone looked at my oboe and called it a clarinet. It hurts my soul.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeee oboeeeeeeeeeee
So here’s the funny my band has 15 in total days until our winter concert so he’s making us play things at tempo to get this song done
YESS FINALLY A PIECE I DONT HAVE TO PLAY FLUTE PART ON
I just realized that the reason I don't like christmas music is because it's all in major key, and way too sugary sweet for me
Minor key makes it 10000000x better
are we sure about that?
@@Pheonix_7930 Yup. 100%.
Such a glorious celebration of Christmas music from all over...the arrangement is reminiscent of the wonderfully whimsical mind of Leroy Andersom. So professionally performed . Great talents!
Thank you so much...made my Christmas Day!
2:44
Every time I hear this part, I imagine the lyrics being
"We wish you a merry christmas (or not) (or not)"
I can’t unhear it
I can’t unhear that now that I heard it
i just went to the dallas winds concert and they played this song, it was awesome
This is probably the best song and arrangement for a concert band, it sounds like a real orchestra even though there's no strings!
There's a harp part actually written in it but I agree
there's actually string bass in here! i play tuba and my bd wants me to learn string and electric bass so i played the tuba and string bass parts on tuba for our concert :)
@@cosmicsuccubus6515 and string bass!
@@rachelmarrone much sad! This is a piece that has an actual string bass part, as opposed to just doubling the tubas, and its different from the tuba part .... it makes this poor string bassists heart happy (because i'm so used to bloody tuba charts 😂😂)
So our band director handed it out and I was joking around and said "Who wants the timpani part, I don't think I can do this" (it's really easy btw) and the percussion section just starts flipping their lids like "HOLY SHIT IF SHE CAN'T PLAY IT NOBODY CAN OH GOD"
today I made the world accidentally burn
whoopie
I love how it goes from nice sweet Christmas music to sinister music in a snap
My favorite song I've ever played at any concert in band😍
I absolutely LOVE the saxophone solo at the beginning of the waltz section when it played "Here Comes Santa Claus!" Whoever was playing on that night was perfect in their execution; I've learned to match my humming to its distinctive timbre whenever I (re)listen to this. I played this as trumpet when I was a sophomore at university. The section gave me a chance to recollect my chops before the final section (I played second part)
The best part is the random Chim Chim Cheree in the middle of nowhere. XD
~:~
Literally where?
@@bigmustang1972 this comment is 3 years old bro, but it’s at 4:17, it plays the end of chim chimeree
Intro is incredibly well written. The trumpet part sounds epic...I might use that as inspiration whenever I get to writing a piece for band.
This is what Christmas music sounds like for folks working in retail. I speak from experience after first hearing this after a working a shift at home depot around black friday.
That is hilarious!
Minorchristmasmusic…Minorchristmasmusic…MERRYPOPPINS… Minorchristmasmusic
All these songs have a minor song associated with them like Swan Lake for the sax solo section, chimney for jingle bells, etc. In minor alterations 2, the composer pairs oh holy night with ride of the Valkyries, and joy to the world with that one Serbian song I can't remember the name of.
Very Nightmare Before Christmas-esque, I love it!
They do play Here Comes Santa Clause in both this piece and the movie, in a minor key. They are very similar, so I see what you mean!
Doing this for my marching bands field show this year!
+tylivia4 OMG THAT IS SO AMAZING :DDD I WANNA SEE THAT SO BAD
+tylivia4 isnt it kinda weird.... Christmas music.... in the middle of september?
Adrian Cantu IT'S ALWAYS CHRISTMAS BRAH THAT IS LIKE THE BEST FUCKING SHIT I HAVE EVER HEARD OF I WISH I WAS IN THAT MARCHING BAND GOD DAMMIT XDDDD
Lol well tbh, I would too :)) I guess their show has something to do with a Christmas-y feeling and omg that would sound so awesome! ITS LIKE AN ORCHESTRAL CHRISTMAS FOR MARCHING XDDDDDDD
Hanako Mitsu
I loved playing the bass trombone part for this ❣️
Ahhh, damn. A player who played it 12 days ago (or so), I play this December 7th and… I’m looking forward to playing this. I play 2nd part, but I was supposed to receive 3rd part, but I hope it was amazing to perform
As someone who played Trombone in this song a few years ago, I can confirm that Trombones had a damn field day with this piece
This is amazing. I've listened to it 3 times in a row!!
Only 3?
I competed against David Lovrien at Texas All-State tryouts in 1979. He got 1st chair on Alto sax. I got 3rd.
For Texas that is really good. I know that is a competitive state for lots of things. You would’ve gotten first in so many other states, probably over half of them.
It's not Christmas and I'm still here
My old high school band played this at their concert and I'm mad cause it's really hard taking their music cause it's too cool to not play again much less to leave alone!! P.S. Minor Christmas music is the best!!!!!!
You should listen to Darth Vader's theme in major key, it sounds like someone's getting married to it XD
I love some of the bassoon parts in this, it was fun to learn and play
I’m playing this in my band and the oboe nailed her solo. I had flute 1 and oh those notes where so high.
I def enjoyed playing it on piccolo back in my day :)
This song is pretty amazing. And my band is going to play it!
Playing this for band, love it with all my heart
Like Tim Burton does Christmas songs. Super.
Danny elfman
This collection is wonderful. It is so creative and inspired. I just love it.
I love the pic part especially on the rouldoff song
Just heard this on WRTI. Great stuff! The only way to make these saccharine pieces we've all heard a million times tolerable!
Shostakovich 2nd Waltz is in there. So crazy. I am playing this in community band this year. Sight read if last night. This took a lot of theory knowledge to make this work.
2:03 sounds like Sally's Song. Love this.
I've always thought that too!
There are a lot of quotes. Sally's Song is one of them, also Shostakovich's Waltz No.2, the Looney Tunes theme song, If I Were a Rich Man and several others. I love this piece to no end.
My community brass band is playing an all-brass arrangement of this song, it’s so weird but so fun. I love the ending where it transitions to the nutcracker after here we come a wassailling
I'm playing this for my winter band concert high school band is the best!
Love a good clap at the ending
That bass bone part in the beginning 😫
I can’t relate. My band director was supposed to give me the 3rd/Bass part, but I’m playing the first/second part (only difference is splits, we just play the bottom ones), so I will never sadly get to see what it looks like
Bass bone part goes crazy
5:19 and 5:28 best moments for French horn
Noel Still You mean best part for the band? ;)
Yeah i agree with Evan that i'd say is probably is one of the best parts of the performance
My band had played this a bunch of times and we're playing it again this year!
my flute band is playing this year. I'm on piccolo ;) and I'm gonna play flute for any parts only flutes play and picc doesn't cuz I have many rests lol
my band is playing this for Christmas ( north point symphonic band)
So is my band
My band is playing this for our Christmas collage concert.
Keegan your collage concert! wow it sounds great! I love collages! you can put so many pictures all together at once! lmao learn how to spell college if you're in college
Carson Cloud lmao maybe you should look at other definitions of collage or maybe ask me what I meant before you look like a dumbass.
A collage, while also being a piece of art made of various things, it can also be a collection of things, such a the band, orchestra, and choir coming together for one concert instead of 3 different ones.
Keegan LOL I really don't think so
When sightreading this I did t realise it was cut time instead of common time till measure 55 and had a oh sh*t moment in my head when they wer already at measure 110 .
Just performed this at our Xmas concert. Loved it.
My band class played that last month and my mom and my brother said it sounded like it's from Nightmare before Christmas!
santa clause is coming to tow-BYUUM BUM BOUM
The song of my nightmares on flute
to all the flutes out there, i’m so sorry. i feel your pain 🥲
sadly I don’t play flute, but I know a lot of friends who do, and they say they all… dread it… I understand the idea of playing flute and see why it is difficult, but damn… it is… painful to look at their music… (I play trombone btw)
Love it!! I appreciate it even more because i'm playing it!
@panther Owl, I agree!
To everyone listen to this on Christmas Day, I hope you guys have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
We are...listening to this delightful parody of our favorite music. It's great!😂❤🎶🔔🌲
My middle school band is playing this....... my band director will probably drop the piece though
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We’re playing this for the current concert and I got put on first clarinet (help)
We got it for our window ensemble I play 2nd cornet
NTS Azazel I’m playing first clarinet part for our concert too ^^; Good luck to us both
Smiling Kitty1011 funny that you reply now, we actually just finished our concert and it went pretty well! I wish you good luck!
Lol watching my clarinet friends struggle for this piece was great 😂
Ahh, the solo. I'm sure you did awesome!! We just got the music today, and our first clarinet was perfection
2:30 English horn solo
Our band in Bromyard (England) has been in existence for 42 years, and tonight was the first time we've ever had a cor (English horn) solo, playing this piece.
played with my high school band, would recommend to anyone it is truly amazing- especially in person
I LOVE this! What I would give to play it!
played this at a school Christmas concert, best concert by far
David Loverien is a genius
3:41 has got to be My fav part ❤
Realll or letter M and N in the piece
this would be like if tim burton wrote christmas carols.
Playing alto part on this one! Absolutely love this piece
Loved playing this at our Winter Concert last year
I had listened to this piece before, and when I was told my school was doing it for a concert, I was extremely happy. I play alto sax, so I'm not excited for the little solo:/
Sword art online Fan it's super easy 🙂 I'm playing it this year for my christmas concert and I got to play it because they wanted to challenge me as a freshman
I got the triangle, and only the triangle, but I still love playing this song :)
Bass Trombone part goes Crazy!!
Playing this this year. My part is so much fun (I play Bassoon)
I always wished ballet studios would do a little preshow before the nutcracker with droselmeyer’s toys and the mice just scheming and partying to this while everyone’s asleep
Would anyone happen to know a full song-by-song or track-by-track list of what songs are featured in this piece from beginning to end? I wish that the score/info about the piece had some sort of breakdown, but it doesn't.
1:33 to 1:44 sounds Soviet as hell so does 3:30 and 4:24 and 5:27
Playing this for Christmas concert next week :3 🎺
I got bells xylo and marimba on this song for the Christmas concert
This smacks harder than an angry dad for NO REASON!!! 🎶🎵🗣🎶🎵🗣🎶🎵🗣🗣🗣
R u ok
@ yeah this music is crazy good 🗣️🔥🔥
9 year old type comment
I like the sleigh ride
This shit was banging blud 💯🔥🔥
I just want to point out that basically no one is complimenting that sweet glissando.
What is the part that starts at 5:16 ? It turns into "tidings of comfort and joy" but I cant place the song ?? It sounds super familiar too
Try ‘here we come a caroling’ sounds like it
That part is God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
@@Instrumentsgalore-c6o THANK YOU SO MUCH OMFG
A Russian Christmas
You don’t realize how creepy the lyrics are until minor key
I was like “he sees you when your sleeping he knows-“ wait a minute 🤨
Here comes Santa Claus 🤨
I’m playing this in concert band and we all think it sounds like klesmyr (sp?) music. So far we have Rudolph the Jewish raindeer
Why Would people dislike
we wish you a merry christmas sounds like chim chim cheree from mary poppins
Which one is the Tchaikovsky at the end I cant remember the symphony #
Anyone know what all the original songs are called?
if youre still interested:
1. deck the halls
2. up on the housetop
3. santa claus is coming to town
4. jolly old st. nicholas
5. here comes santa claus
6. we wish you a merry christmas
7. silver bells
8. jingle bells
9. rudolph
10. sleigh ride
11. here we come a wassailing
12. nutcracker
@@mittromney568
I love this piece. The puns were inescapable:
1. Hit the deck
2. Up on the housetop, reindeer prowl
3. Krampus is coming to town
4. Grouchy old St. Nicholas + Sally's song from Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Here lies Santa Claus + Shostakovich Waltz #2 from Jazz Suite
6. Bring us some liver pudding
7. For whom the silver bell tolls + Chim chim cheree from Mary Poppins
8. Fleeing through the snow + Chim chim cheree from Mary Poppins
9. Rudolph the red-eyed reindeer
10. Hearse ride (maybe + traffic from American in Paris by Bernstein?)
10.5 Echo carol, the lost verse: Do you smell what I smell?
11. Here we come a wassailing among the poison ivy
12. Kalashnikov dance by Tchaikovsky's evil twin + Hit the deck, reprise
Just preformed this tonight faster than it is right here
Aaron Cannon I’m Ready to do it again. Dougs last epic Christmas concert.
Did anyone notice a little Sally’s song melody
Dat tuba tho
I get to play that part :)
Me too
I've been doing this to church hymns for years.
You know why you’re here
Is that a violin or sax solo?? It sounds so much like a violin
Kayjaay Robinson sounds like a Sax.
It's a sax
How'd you get violin?
Joseph Stalin's coming to town.
I had Trumpet 3 for this last year it was SOOOOOO BORING
This is 2020 christmas
5:40
.25 playback speed, goodnight