[Score] Festival Variations - Claude T. Smith (for concert band)

Audio: • C.T.Smith: Festival Va...
NHK Symphony Orchestra Wind Section
Shigeo Genda, conductor

[@cathimini]

And now, a moment of silence for our sisters and brothers in the horn section... 😳🙏😅

[@Sparkle-q5s]

I can't imagine playing anything after this piece....

[@cathimini]

​@@Sparkle-q5s at least if you survive 😅

[@SomeTromboneDudeIdk]

Funny thing, I played this a couple months ago after a piece called "Rising Dragons", which is an insane piece(that you should definitely check out)

[@cathimini]

​@@SomeTromboneDudeIdk I did and... good lord xD I tkink your conductor wants you dead, watch out!
Speaking of insane music programs: once, I played Pilatus by Reineke, the second clarinet concerto of Navarro, Harry Potter (with the famous horn quartet) and Pompei by Piña xD
I also played Mata Hari, Jeanne d'Arc by Poelman, Miss Saigon and Reminiscencia Gitana in ONE concert 🥵😅😂😂

[@Taxi58]

Well, woodwinds work at least as hard!

[@matteaton2716]

There is a great story attached to this piece. Claude T Smith was a 1st chair Horn player in college. His Senior year a Freshman beat him out for 1st chair. Many years later Col. Arnald Gabriel asked Smith to write a piece for the Air Force band that they could not play, so he wrote Festival Variations. Coincidentally the Principal Horn player in AF band was actually the person who beat him out for 1st chair in College. The guy came up to Smith during the rehearsal and said, “I absolutely love the piece, but did you have to make the Horn parts so damn hard?”. Smith looked at him and said, “GOTCHA!!!!”

[@brianbarry5039]

Interesting how a piece they could not play has become basic literature and has been recorded by a bunch of different wind ensembles.

[@TheVrajr]

Played this at Temple University in the 1980s when it was a new work. On horn. Still gives me chills.

[@Lopez_0924]

N響の演奏に酷似してるな。。と思ったらN響の演奏でした。何度も聴いたから耳心地良かったです。

[@bowlerrollercoaster]

The pulse from those time signature changes get me every time! Such a great work

[@robert_270]

I played Tenor Saxophone on this piece and 274 was so much fun to play, such a fantastic piece

[@Sparkle-q5s]

WOW !!!!!! absolutely amazing.

[@TheGoffinator]

High school horn player here and my director is thinking of having us play this. Am I cooked?

[@metrobean]

yeah youre cooked

[@Taxi58]

Love it! Well played!

[@joshuarubin171]

Penn State Bass Clarinet
5:38
10:13

[@off9443jp]

とても難しい譜面。おどろきました。ありがとう！

[@nobumaxzuki]

おい！クロードスミスに金管は各楽器譜の二線上のCまではスラーで余裕で出ますって教えたのは誰だ！ブライアンボーマンか？今すぐここに出てこい！

[@ritardstrength5169]

Thanks!

[@zdm8516]

Where did you get the score for this?

[@健太-p9d]

3:28

[@nobuash]

チューバ吹きがつい吹いちゃうヤツ(^^)

[@evanlarsen9418]

The ending sounds like the composer just took the chord sequence from the ET theme.
haha

[@joeenglert]

nice tune 60s sound to it..out dated for sure,,but much better than most newer stuff

[@Dropboy80]

Outdated? Music like this is timeless. Why would you even say that?

[@AIUEODESU]

やっぱホルンを殺してる。関係ない私たちにはいじめないでください…

[@knottednumber]

1:20
5:40

[@HelloooThere]

Ughhhhhh

[@SisselOnline]

Personally really doesn't enjoy this work... Or else I'd do this work's score vid rather than the Variations on a Hymn by Louis Bourgeois.

[@natheniel]

係咪以前玩band玩過有啲黑歷史lol

[@SisselOnline]

@@natheniel lol nah
I just doesn't like the style...

[@ogqhris2133]

3:36

[@caidenflowers5712]

7:09