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Post by LovableSheep » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:47 pm

Today at our senior class graduation practice, one of the administators said that one of the other administrators would give $10 to the first person who could name the composer of Pomp & Circumstance. :lol: I didn't really feel like getting up, though. And besides, I thought it would be kind of unfair for me to say it since I've played it for 3 years and I'm our band librarian, so I figured I'd give someone else a shot. I don't know if anyone else ever got it or not.
He should have asked who arranged the version our band plays; that probably no one would have gotten :twisted: (The answer is Gardner)

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Post by gloria » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:31 pm

We're doing Pomp and Circumstance arranged by Grundman.
But I don't want the seniors to graduate!
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Post by swuster » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:39 pm

...yeah...grundman...but i can never remember his signals...one finger means take fist ending and go back to repeat sign...fist means go to 5 after first ending, and hang loose means finish it i think...someone correct me if i'm wrong.
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Post by EMT-911 » Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:52 pm

swuster wrote:...yeah...grundman...but i can never remember his signals...one finger means take fist ending and go back to repeat sign...fist means go to 5 after first ending, and hang loose means finish it i think...someone correct me if i'm wrong.


lol. I think we should try those......well, I just like the hang loose!!!!
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Post by TMR Quint Kid » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:39 am

in high school we played the hiphop arrangement from kanye west.



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Post by LoyalTubist » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:46 am

Pomp and Circumstance is actually a series of marches by Edward Elgar. The theme we know as "P and C" is actually only one of the sections of Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. If a a band were to play a good arrangement of the entire piece, even though it is very difficult, I think the band members might enjoy it better. But the best graduation march I ever played was Crown Imperial March by William Walton. We used it when I was a student at San Bernardino Valley College. We never had to play it more than twice through.

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Post by LoyalTubist » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:47 am

Pomp and Circumstance is actually a series of marches by Edward Elgar. The theme we know as "P and C" is actually only one of the sections of Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. If a a band were to play a good arrangement of the entire piece, even though it is very difficult, I think the band members might enjoy it better. But the best graduation march I ever played was Crown Imperial March by William Walton. We used it when I was a student at San Bernardino Valley College. We never had to play it more than twice through.

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Post by LoyalTubist » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:48 am

Pomp and Circumstance is actually a series of marches by Edward Elgar. The theme we know as "P and C" is actually only one of the sections of Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. If a a band were to play a good arrangement of the entire piece, even though it is very difficult, I think the band members might enjoy it better. But the best graduation march I ever played was Crown Imperial March by William Walton. We used it when I was a student at San Bernardino Valley College. We never had to play it more than twice through.
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Post by mightyhorn » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:41 am

Every school I've taught at....
Every school I've played at....
We've either done the standard Grundman arrangement or an arrangement so watered down that you could cry playing it.
But... most schools have their traditions and EVERYONE is used to the same music each year/ Want to see a senior advisor freak? Play different music. When I was in high school, our band director was "fed up" with P & C so our combined A/B Bands played Procession of the Nobles. He got in hot water for that one so the next year....
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