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However, I would have to add October(Eric Whitacre) to the list. and this is from the frst chair euphoniums POV.[/quote]

eric whitacre writes such unbelievably beautiful music...i am the first chair euphonium at hart and i have been totally blessed with getting to play his beautiful solo...we also got to play Cloudburst at BOA Nationals last year!

Also Philip Sparke rox my sox!

iamnotabandnerd wrote:However, I would have to add October(Eric Whitacre) to the list. and this is from the frst chair euphoniums POV.

eric whitacre writes such unbelievably beautiful music...i am the first chair euphonium at hart and i have been totally blessed with getting to play his beautiful solo...we also got to play Cloudburst at BOA Nationals last year!

Also Philip Sparke rox my sox![/quote]

Nice, I am the Principle chair at Mt. SAC, and was Principle in All County Honor Band, and I got to lay it, but I have played other stuff, and that is why I belive that anything Whitacre rocks.

My fav are:

Spirit of Orpheus
Fate of the Gods
Masque
Pageant

For once I actually had something hard to play, well challenging not hard. Stupid 32nd notes.

heh,i could hardly play em i hated spitrit of orpheus,but loved pageant and fate of the gods and i love swords against the sea too!!!!!

my favorite are Armenian Dances and Variants on a Moravian Hymn. they're also very difficult. I still can't believe RB is playing Armenian Dances for marching band.

i see people do like armenian dances.....well anyways how sad that marching season is almost over and i didnt see Rancho Bernardo do Armenian Dances on the field i hope that i might go to a tournament just to see them i would really enjoy that..

I like this one we played last year: Florentiner.. or something like that.. I play bassoon, and this piece had cool parts for it like sixtheenth notes and junk.

Shorty41 wrote:I like this one we played last year: Florentiner.. or something like that.. I play bassoon, and this piece had cool parts for it like sixtheenth notes and junk.

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The USMC Band plays the Florentiner on it, and the low brass in the second strain produces some of the best accents I've ever heard. I just about wet myself the first time I heard it.

It's an outstanding CD all around, btw. The Kozhevnikov Symphony is enjoyable, the recordings of Florentiner, Children of the Regiment, and Farewell to a Slavic Woman are all top notch, and they also give a first rate performance of the Looking Upward Suite, which I think is one of Sousa's best works.

It looks like most of my favorites have already been mentioned, since they are such great pieces! But I will still mention them anyway lol.
My ultimate favorite wind ensemble piece is October by Eric Whitacre. I want to play it soooo badly. I listen to a recording of it all the time, and it sends chills down my back every time!
Next... Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli and Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed. We played these in our wind ensemble last year, and I absolutely loved them!
I also love... Puszta by Jan van der Roost (spelling?). I don't know if you consider that a wind ensemble piece, but it is the most fun and entertaining piece I've ever played!

October
American Elegy
Symphonic Dances No. 4 "Fiesta"
Elegy
Shenendoah
Vesuvius
Incantation and Dance
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Suite of Old American Dances
Alleluia! Laudamus te
Marche Slav

Out of the ones I've heard, I'd have to say Persis and El Camino Real are my favorites. I also love Russian Christmas Music with a passion. They all have so much emotion in them. Out of the ones we've played though, I'd have to say either Variations on a Korean Folk Song and Vesuvius. They're written so cleverly, and it's just so fun to play them.

I'll put some down off the top of my head:

Molly on the Shore
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Rocky Point Holiday
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Morning Star
Dance of the Jesters
New Century Dawn
O Magnum Mysterium (listening to now, Northwestern University SWE with Mallory Thompson, thanks iTMS) - if you like "October", you might like this one, although not a Whitacre.

Symphonic Movement
1812 Overture
Shenendoah
American Elegy
Incantation and Dance
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Alleluia! Laudamus te
March from Symphonic Metamorphosis
Chester
Shostakovich 5th Symphony Finale
Suite of old American Dances
Toccata
Folk Song Suite
Firebird Suite
Great Gates of Kiev

Wildabeast wrote: O Magnum Mysterium (listening to now, Northwestern University SWE with Mallory Thompson, thanks iTMS) - if you like "October", you might like this one, although not a Whitacre.

Just wondering, who's the composer? Because this year in academic decathlon we studied an "O Magnum Mysterium" composed in the Renaissance period.