Saxman717 22 Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 For anyone new to the board and for those who missed these links last time, here's a repost of The Planets and of the Donald Hundsburger Suite of Star Wars themes performed by the Fall 2001 Cornell University Wind Symphony.....enjoy! And thanks again to ecurbh for allowing me to post them on his FTP!-Stevewww.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_imperial_march.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_leia_theme.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_battle_in_the_forest.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_yoda_theme_main_title_encore.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_mars.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_venus.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_jupiter.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_uranus.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,263 Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Who was the conductor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 6, 2002 Author Share Posted August 6, 2002 Mark Davis Scatterday. This Fall of 2002 he is replacing Donald Hundsberger as the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble conductor-Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecube 0 Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Thanks for thinking of the new guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 no prob, enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruciformSword 2 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 I really am enjoying listening to the files. They sound amazing. Thanks alot for posting them. -Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 The files sound great.I am really enjoying them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 Good! I like them too, a unique orchestration of all 5 pieces. It was awesome performing them in concert setting too :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beowulf 4 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Hunsberger is retiring?He will be missed as a conductor...he was awesome! :cry: I had a great time performing under his baton. BTW saxman...are you at Eastman, and if not, what wind-ensemble are you in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 Yup, Hunsberger is throwing in the towel after like 30-40 years of conducting......you were conducted by him? Were you at Eastman? I'm at Cornell University now, a Junior studying electrical engineering, and am in the wind ensemble here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 A concert note: The Encore of Imperial March after the Star Wars Main Theme was conducted by "Darth Vader", Mark Scatterday wearing a full vader outfit......the depth and intensity of the encore compared to the 1st movement when it was played is considerably greater....playing the theme of the character who was conducting us was truely one of the most awesome musical moments of my life so far. Everyone was so completely into it! Can any of you sense the difference in intensity? I sure can(especially having played in it), and I think it's really cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beowulf 4 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Nah...I never went to Eastman. I'm headed off to medical school next year, but sometimes I wish I did go to Eastman...lol. I was priveleged enough to be under Hunsberger's baton at the mid-continental music conference in Chicago a few years ago during my high school years. Man was it a blast.So out of curiousity Saxman, what is your fondest memory of wind ensemble (besides the awesome one you just mentioned of being conducted by Darth Vader...LOL!). Mine would have to be playing "To Tame the Perilous Skies" under Holsinger's Baton at All-State a few years back.btw....great recordings. You guys are good! I have a recording of you guys playing the last movement from Shostakovich's "Symphony 5", and man, it is one of the best wind-ensemble performances I have ever heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 I almost went to Cornell. Just didnt dig the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 Haha, too many cows and farms rogueleader? It's nice but doesn't have much city life just lots and lots of frats :roll: Hey we played To Tame the Perilous Skies my freshman year, that was fun.....really really intense piece of music. Hmmmm, fondest memory of wind ensemble......there have been many! One of the most recent ones was this past semester......in 1 concert we played pieces by 3 of my favorite wind ensemble composers, Ticheli, Husa, and Hindemith. We played Postcard, and I had a bunch of sax solos in there, and Music for Prague 1968, the most intense piece of music I've ever played, with the 2nd movement being a sax quintet(with Bass sax!!) with the wind ensemble accompanying, and then the 4th Movement (the March) from Hindemith's Metamorphosis. That concert ties the "Space-Themed" concert as my favorite ever....and both happened in the same year! Last year is going to be hard to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beowulf 4 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Wow...that sounded like an intense concert. Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphosis" is definitely one of my favs.Now this is f-ed up. Right now as I am reading your post, I am listening to "Blue Shades"! I mean, I saw the name Tichelli and I was like damn!ahhh "Blue Shades"...now that is a fun peice to play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Sax literally took the word out of my mouth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 Yeah lots of people shy away from Ithaca 'cause it's like hicksville :-) Where'd u end up rogueleader? Blue Shades was the first Ticheli piece I ever played, we played it in my HS wind ensemble and yeah that was our favorite piece throughout all of HS. It remains one of my absolute favs to this day! Postcard is right alongside it 'cause it is so similar....you heard that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beowulf 4 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Oh yeah...it's on my favorite "Wind-ensemble" CD that has my favorite wind ensemble peice ever --> Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra playing:Celebration - Phillip Sparke ---> My favorite peice ever! Apocolyptic Dreams - David GillinghamArmenian Dances - Alfred ReedPostcards - Frank TicheliThough i've never got to play postcards, I must say that it is a very idiosyncratic and syncopated peice. I bet it would be fun to play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 I actually ended up going to the University of Virginia for a few years until I went back closer to home. Anyway, as for the music, its really good. However, hearing this makes me want to hear a NON-LUCAS edited Williams Prequel SW score release even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,263 Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Who wrote the arrangements? Are by Hunsberger himslef? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxman717 22 Posted August 7, 2002 Author Share Posted August 7, 2002 Yep, the Star Wars arrangements were done by Hunsberger himself, I believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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