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I love Blue Shades! I played the bass drum (exciting, I know...) on that piece my freshman year. Besides playing percussion in my college's Symphonic Band, I played in the pit for Man of La Mancha. That was a fun show!

Ooh, concert band music! We're playing Armenian Dances in this semester's concert. I'm on the xylophone for most of it. The 5/8 part is weird and sadly, some of our players just don't feel it. The rest of the piece reminds me of circus music! I love Eric Whitacre's Ghost Train. I can't imagine writing a piece like that, or performing it. He does some amazing things with the concert band. And I would love to do Hanson's Chorale and Alleluia. I should mention that to our director....

Wow, that was great! I love these transitions between themes! It'd be cool to see this performed.

This is one of my favorite John Williams tracks. SS was the first soundtrack I ever owned, and it's what introduced me to John Williams. I was blown away by the orchestration in this piece, and I'm still blown away today. The harp and glockenspiel add a lot to the section around 2:55-3:00. I also love the rumbling low brass and how it sounds like they're rattling the snares in 3:44. I too hope this is the music chosen at Islands of Adventure. You'll be able to walk from Jurassic Park to Hogsmeade and hear continuous Williams!

I love these kinds of threads! I've never noticed these "tone rows" before.

The Scherzo is my favorite cue. I remember somehow finding a piano reduction of it back in high school and was completely blown away!

I had only just discovered that site when it was shut down.

Sounds like a great concert! I don't think I'm familiar with the Celebration Fanfare. Is it on a CD?

Wow, there's so many cool things going on in this thread! Right now, I'm busy preparing for my Junior Composition Recital. It's a 30 minute recital. The program will be: Psalm 117 for SATB choir and organ - a short anthem for a very short Psalm. Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Piano - a piece from my freshman year that's kind of Catch Me If You Can inspired. String Quintet (movements I. and II.) - this piece was butchered by lousy performers last year, so this is a second chance. Rondo for Flute and Piano - what better way to fill up the required 30 minute time slot than to recycle the A theme three times?

I'd love to hear the opera!

Wow, that's great! I like the juxtaposition at the beginning!

I had no idea a youth orchestra could sound like that! Does anyone know the specific age range for SBYO?

I created an iTunes playlist for all my Christmas music. I have the Bach and Rutter Magnificats, Handel's Messiah, Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and Hodie by Vaughan-Williams. Add to that The Polar Express and a little bit of Narnia, along with Christmas at Hogwarts. A Charlie Brown Christmas is on the list too. Christmas just doesn't feel right without that CD. I also have a recording of that horrible guy butchering O Holy Night lol. I need to get Home Alone 1 and 2. It's on my Christmas wishlist this year, which means I won't get to enjoy it until the 25th.

I really wish this were on the CD! I love the how the flute accompanies their descent on Buckbeak. Oh well.

Thanks for posting that tuba concerto! I hadn't heard it until now. Has this piece been released on CD?

I wish I could afford to see opera. Even the discounted student tickets are out of my budget.... I did get to operate spotlights and therefore watch my college's production of Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors." It was great, and I think it's a good way to introduce someone to opera.

I still haven't heard this piece! I'm surprised this is already available from Hal Leonard.

Harry's Wondrous World, hands down.

Wow, that was a very interesting arrangement! At times, it seemed as though the players weren't quite together. But I love the walking 8th notes in the lower brass near the end. So cool!

Dangit! I was relying on that website's collection of the Bartok string quartets, so I could follow along while listening. That sucks.

I just listened to Mahler's Symphony No. 1 and 2. WOW! I was really blown away, and slightly upset that I'd never heard the pieces until now! I was able to check out the score at the library and follow along, which makes me appreciate the piece even more.

At my school, we're playing a symphonic band arrangement of Sibelius' Symphony No. 1. I'm playing the harp part (on piano...) It's a great piece! I'm especially fond of the timpani part.

I only have the Close Encounters Suite from the Greatest Hits CD in my collection. There's an interesting quote of "When You Wish Upon A Star" in there. Does anyone know the story behind that? The end of that suite contains what appears to be the finale setting of the 5 note theme. It really blew me away! I'm sure this score is out of print. Are there any re-recordings of it, or just the 1977 release on CD?

Or you can arpeggiate that huge interval. Play the bottom note with your thumb (assuming that this leap is in the RH) and then the top two notes (9th and 10th) with your 4th and 5th finger together. Don't worry if they don't sound at exactly the same time, the damper pedal will catch them both. Sorry if that makes absolutely no sense. I hope I'm thinking of the right interval based on your description.

I'm rereading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It's a very flawed book, plotwise.