UMich Symphony Band - Richard Wagner - Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (1850)

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  • University of Michigan Symphony Band
    Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (1850)
    Richard Wagner, transcribed by Lucien Cailliet
    Michael Haithcock, conductor
    February 5, 2016
    Hill Auditorium
    University of Michigan
    Ann Arbor, MI
    recorded and filmed by Dave Schall
    (www.daveschallacoustic.com)
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  • @pennyp7382
    @pennyp7382 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I haven't played this song in years. I can almost still see the 😂neverending crescendo 😂😂❤

  • @jesse6301
    @jesse6301 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I played this in high school - one of my all-time favorites!

    • @darkwriter_xx94
      @darkwriter_xx94 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here!

    • @tomcline5631
      @tomcline5631 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep! 30some years ago. One of my favorites too. Wagner appreciated the french horn

    • @citlalyflorestorres121
      @citlalyflorestorres121 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I played this in 7th grade it was really tough since it was barely my 5th year of playing my clarinet but the band did amazing it was my favorite piece I have ever played 💙

    • @maxinemajor2882
      @maxinemajor2882 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We marched to this when I was in high school with our military marching band. It was a show stopper. Such an emotional piece of music. Brings a tear to my eye, still!

    • @bbssssssssssssssssss
      @bbssssssssssssssssss 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why?

  • @wimbusbert1249
    @wimbusbert1249 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Dang, this video has great resolution for being recorded in 1850! Colorized, too!

  • @jamesvanover5477
    @jamesvanover5477 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The single most beautiful and stirring piece of music I have ever heard or played. Listening to this, I feel like I'm on that final trip to enter the gates of Heaven.

  • @danawinsor1380
    @danawinsor1380 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This performance is as good as it gets. Bravo UMich Symphony Band!

  • @n2music174
    @n2music174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Love those French Horns !!! Beautiful harmonies !!

    • @skeets6060
      @skeets6060 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The girls that played the French horns were the best kissers ,,,, ever !!!!

  • @danedwards3950
    @danedwards3950 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is absolutely amazing. Tuning, balance, phrasing, commitment, correct Tempo, full breathing. Bravo from an old british pro!

  • @codywright2840
    @codywright2840 7 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Damn this piece is something special. This band is too for playing it that well. I am ecstatic to have the privilege of playing this in my high school's wind ensemble! The concert we play this at is going to be one for the ages

    • @michaelolmoz225
      @michaelolmoz225 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      err jordans go away.

    • @pennyp7382
      @pennyp7382 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ❤🎉🎶 🎵 As a bassoonist who played this in high school...I am so happy to see you younger players appreciating this. 👏 😂 Well in Wagners time me at 41 is a non existence. 😂❤ 🎉Hug yourself. You're worth it.

  • @cavalierfan2008
    @cavalierfan2008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Contrabass clarinet!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @ColonelMarcellus
    @ColonelMarcellus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm glad to see several bassoons in this ensemble.

  • @johnnyjohns5059
    @johnnyjohns5059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    When I was in the MS State Symphonic Band in the early seventies we were invited to play for the National Collegiate Band Directors Association meeting at LSU we did this number and it was one of those times when everything was perfect! Such a great feeling of perfection!

  • @RoberttAvro
    @RoberttAvro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    On a California tour with the University of British Columbia Wind Symphony under director Martin Berinbaum back in the mid 70's, we had a bus poll one day, which was our favorite tour piece, and Elsa's Procession was the winner. I still remember that. And as a trombone player, I gotta tell you, it was an easy decision. Those powerful chromatic melodies, the slow and majestic buildup to the great brass finale, and just the general musical craftsmanship. Truly a masterpiece.

    • @owenhochwald506
      @owenhochwald506 ปีที่แล้ว

      okay

    • @jamesvanover5477
      @jamesvanover5477 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I too played it as a trombonist. At the finally I felt that the trombones announced that the ultimate everything had been reached.

    • @pennyp7382
      @pennyp7382 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wagner as a bassoonists is one of my favorites. He really used instruments to make a new kind of hauntingly beautiful music.

  • @thefruitofpassion6304
    @thefruitofpassion6304 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember when I went to band camp my jr year we got to play this song and they had a huge pipe organ that they played on instead of a harp and boy did that sound amazing. I considered to be the most beautiful piece of music I knew at the time, and still on of the top. The goosbumps of being right in the middle of that sound was one of the greatest feelings I've had. What I'd give to go back and do that again.

    • @turnersugg
      @turnersugg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you happen to have a recording of it? I would love to hear the organ

  • @bqpahdoesstuff5123
    @bqpahdoesstuff5123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I am a trumpet player, and this piece is in somehow different keys, all of which are played beautifully.

  • @stefanopiovani1919
    @stefanopiovani1919 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Congrats! Very high level of music, I feel your energy!

  • @macpretzelmc3599
    @macpretzelmc3599 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Every march my High school's bands get to perform in Hill auditorium for one concert, our freshman band, 2 separate concert bands, and our highest level band, symphony band. the acoustics there are unlike anything i had ever experienced when i first went there as a freshman.
    Every year in may at our symphony band's last performance the symphony band gets to perform this piece as a sort of send off for all the seniors of that year. every year it has left me in tears, especially the last 2 years when i've played it personally. i've never heard it played in hill but it's on my bucket list without a doubt, especially seeing as just this video managed to bring me to shed a few tears.

    • @phazed3156
      @phazed3156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sounds like your school does exactly the same as the school I'm currently a band member in, Belleville High. Hill Auditorium has acoustics that are unparalleled.

    • @ericanthonyjones2131
      @ericanthonyjones2131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pioneer High 1967-1970, Baritone Saxophone for me -- the recurring event you mention -- we did excerpts from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (O Fortuna, Venit Luna...)

    • @evandytyniak3258
      @evandytyniak3258 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am also a member of the Belleville High School symphony band. Words can't say how sad I am to not have been able to play at Hill Auditorium this year or even have one last concert as a Senior. We always play Elsa's Procession as our ending piece at our last concert.

  • @jakemf1
    @jakemf1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Goosebumps!!!!!!

  • @rocioaguilera3613
    @rocioaguilera3613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The stupendous Herr Richard. Thanks

  • @jrdroptini
    @jrdroptini 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beautiful!

  • @lylereinhard8652
    @lylereinhard8652 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent!!

  • @JanVrehen1
    @JanVrehen1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A very correct interpretation of this beautiful masterpiece.
    Big compliment to everyone for measuring the musical intention so preciese and choosing the only right tempo that fits!
    I am thruely impressed!

  • @kdkeydude1
    @kdkeydude1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Superb ! Bravo !!

  • @paul-zx5du
    @paul-zx5du 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gorgeous. All is right with the world.

  • @arickquinton1268
    @arickquinton1268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's a great piece. Probably my favorite.

  • @Esteban-yr8hm
    @Esteban-yr8hm ปีที่แล้ว

    This piece definitely grew on me

  • @Glamdotzan
    @Glamdotzan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    yassssssssss beautiful piccolo!!!!!

  • @donalddodson7365
    @donalddodson7365 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Marvelous to control these lagato pieces with seamless phrasing and focused attention to precision. Thank you.

  • @cynyalater
    @cynyalater 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful job!!!!!!!! Reminds me of my flute days in high school 🥹

  • @thedadda
    @thedadda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Absolutely amazing performance. Thank you for sharing.

  • @jonathanmacpac
    @jonathanmacpac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent acoustics at Hill.

  • @josuepedrozobaptista8806
    @josuepedrozobaptista8806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Muy bueno. Som extraordinário!!!

  • @peelbewoner
    @peelbewoner 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    grandioso

  • @itzbloolive5100
    @itzbloolive5100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    part three of our marching show is based off of this!! it’s so pretty i love it so much

  • @BonnieBunny53
    @BonnieBunny53 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the near constant presence of the Oboe as a crucial-and, more importantly, **heard**-part of the melody/song!
    My school's band is playing this this year/quarter(?) and I am-unfortunately-the sole Oboist of my band level. There is only one other Oboist in the school, but-since they are a freshman-they are in the lowest of the three bands of the school.

  • @justacasual7927
    @justacasual7927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't play any instruments but I love this piece...

  • @jeromemourat2592
    @jeromemourat2592 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW!!

  • @arickquinton1268
    @arickquinton1268 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When first chair players are assembled from the entire state.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This performance is unrivaled by any other performances

    • @starwarsjunkie7777
      @starwarsjunkie7777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Baylor…WAY better.

    • @starwarsjunkie7777
      @starwarsjunkie7777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You have no idea how much better Baylor is. The ending is the best I’ve ever heard.

    • @starwarsjunkie7777
      @starwarsjunkie7777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is the most clinical interpretation I’ve heard of this piece. This piece should be banned from being played so goddamn straight.

  • @xaviercross3285
    @xaviercross3285 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The phantom regiment played this piece. If you liked this you might want to check it out.

  • @alternatemusicaddict5226
    @alternatemusicaddict5226 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    3:12 look at this dude tuning the timpani lol

  • @band_nerd
    @band_nerd ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:23 the double bassist’s smile 😁

  • @KBMOORE98
    @KBMOORE98 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was that an extra suspended cymbal crash in the next to last measure? Seemed random. Good performance.

  • @HyunjinnieFerret
    @HyunjinnieFerret 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the reason my dad chose to give me my name. Maybe I’ll play it at my wedding some day, just for him

  • @benjaminlogan9432
    @benjaminlogan9432 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I played this for drum corp

  • @poopoopants7904
    @poopoopants7904 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I need help with the trumpet part it seems wrong to play in this piece my concert is in Two weeks any advice fellow trumpet players??

    • @ashem0150
      @ashem0150 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just be very soft with your articulations! be very dramatic with your dynamics and play confidently with a great tone, you'll do great! :)

    • @luisvillanueva6714
      @luisvillanueva6714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Air

    • @silaskuemmerle2505
      @silaskuemmerle2505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a bit late now, but... switch to tenor sax (it's what I did)

    • @zachc9532
      @zachc9532 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@silaskuemmerle2505i did the opposite, T sax to trumpet

    • @jamesvanover5477
      @jamesvanover5477 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@silaskuemmerle2505 If you switch to anything, make it trombone. Then you get to announce the total glory of this piece.

  • @nathanspergel8842
    @nathanspergel8842 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:21-4:57

  • @amanthatlikesfromsoftware
    @amanthatlikesfromsoftware 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:49

  • @starwarsjunkie7777
    @starwarsjunkie7777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Look up the ending of Baylor’s performance of this. Miles ahead of U of M.

  • @sgsmozart
    @sgsmozart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Excellent performance. ..however. .Dr. Revelli's stretched out final crescendo is better.

    • @joeheid2776
      @joeheid2776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Revelli was on a different level. Still the best ever

    • @ericanthonyjones2131
      @ericanthonyjones2131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dr Revelli came over to Pioneer High (1969) to conduct our band (under our beloved Victor Bordo) in Prelude and Leibestod. Great memory

    • @fredoguzman
      @fredoguzman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Listen to the U of M Russian tour 1961 tape, then get back to me.

  • @asmundpinas3192
    @asmundpinas3192 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Contrabass clarinet, could go an lower

  • @tantricsurfer
    @tantricsurfer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    sssh... just play

  • @pigeon4422
    @pigeon4422 ปีที่แล้ว

    as a high school percussionist I despise this piece

    • @lukealadeen7836
      @lukealadeen7836 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol why? 😂

    • @jamesvanover5477
      @jamesvanover5477 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Never pass an opportunity to become a musician rather than just a percussionist.

  • @starwarsjunkie7777
    @starwarsjunkie7777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This piece should be banned from being performed with such a clinical interpretation.