This has to be my all time favorite peice. I played this for my schools concert districts, but theat marching season we had it aranged into a marching show we has over all superiors with it for the first time in the history of our band.
We played this song in my orchestra in high school. I played Viola. This is an amazing piece. If you close your eyes you can imagine being in the middle of a storm.
I love this piece!!!XD. I first got to hear it back in 2005 when my sister played the flute part. Fell in love with it then. I got to play it at band camp of 2009 and I played the bass clarinet solo. Now in 2013, I'm playing it for my school and playing bass clarinet again and the solo again!!!XD. Great way to end my senior year!!!XD
My old junior high school band played this my 9th grade year at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, AR. I am 33 now, so you all can see how old this piece it is. It's a great piece that I think of often.
I LOVE R.W. Smith... Most of his songs remind me of Highschool concert band. I started in grade 7, and slowed down my clarinet obsession upon graduating.. but ill slowly pick it back up.
We played this for an ajudication my senior year! Loved it... We took the tempo a lot quicker because it wasn't that hard of a piece for my band. I loved it! I was first chair clarinet that year, too. Totally rocked it. :)
I'm a senior at my high school in Smithfield, North Carolina. I played this piece about a year or two ago. I loved this piece. It has a lot of cool parts for each of the instruments. I personally enjoyed the clarinet parts, since I am one. (WOOD WINDS! WHOOT!)
I love this piece. Our high school is playing this piece this year. My favorite part would be in the beginning. I love the clarinets and the flute accompaniment (which I play) is simplistic and captivating.
One of my all time favorite orchestra pieces. I used to play first chair clarinet back in high school and this was my favorite to play, especially since I was the only who could get the climax right. I really need to either find or purchase the sheet music. Haven't pulled out my clarinet in years.
Played this last year in middle school. It was an amazing piece of music to play, difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's smooth sailing from there. Seems easier now when I hear it since I'm in high school.
My band is marching this for competition band this year. It is unreal. It's so hard and the drill is crazy. MR. RENDECK IS THE GREATEST INSTRUCTOR IN ALL THE LAND! SCRATCH THAT, THE UNIVERSE!
I'm playing this song for a concert! Half the people in my class say they don't like it because it's difficult to play, but I LOVE IT!...It's sad that although I got 1st clarinet on this piece I'm in the class of people who didn't make audition to get in synphonic band...Which means we're not as great...Good thing we're playing the same songs at this concert. I plan on practicing my best so it will sound as beautiful as it should be!!!
We're playing The Tempest right now in middle school we played Tonoan Echoes this year and we played African Bell Carol Robert W. Smith is a great composer I play in the low brass section Bari Sax to be exact
I love this piece! I played this in Junior High some odd 10 years ago. I'm now in college for Music Education and maybe I'll get the chance to direct this piece with a junior high band of my own some day! This is an excellent piece to teach endurance to young students!
My band played this today for ISSMA, along with 2 other concert pieces and a sight read, and we got gold! I love this song so much. I play the bass clarinet btw :3
i played this on the Alto clarinet in 9th...i play it on the bass clarinet in 12th now....this song is like one of those starter songs but it can actually only be played correctly and with appropriate enthusiasm in a high school band or higher...it's a really beautiful piece.
Heeeeyyy!!!! One of my ladst peices of eighth grade!!! It was our full orchestra piece! We got it two/three weeks before the concert, andhad to change it, because our notes we a third to high! SOOOOOO much fun! Rocked it! And the 1812 overture! (an easier version)
Amazing song! We played this in our Orchestra with the woodwinds and drums and whatnot, and it sounded amazing. I wish we could play it again, but our band director wouldn't even touch it after that. >.< I love the cello part, but of course I do, I play the cello! :) Phantom of the Opera is an amazing movie, and I love the main theme. Had to play it in 8th grade. It was easily the hardest thing I've ever had to play in orchestra. o.0
a school band came to our school and played this for us and it was really cool. The loud drum and tumpets sound representing lightning made me jump back and my heart pound. I almost fell off the high jump mat (I was sitting on the top of it)
This is the best song I ever played and I played the bass clarinet solo on this song but played clarinet for the rest of it so it was fun having to switch my instrument in the middle of the song
This song is telling a story. It was written about the blizzard in north Georgia in 1993, i do believe. The man was snowed in and deside to use his time wisely. He did amazingly well letting the music bring the feeling of the blizzard to life.
I know! There's very loud and serious parts on both sides of the song to represent possibly a hurricane, and a very calm and almost relaxing part in the middle that I assume represents the eye of a storm. Truly a magnificent piece
The feeling I got in my chest as a 7th grader was insane because the way we divided our 7th grade band was brass w/ male percussionist and woodwind with female percussionists (idk why we did that but whatever). So what I’d hear in the Brass class was just a big BOOM and then dead silence over and over. It wasn’t until about 3 days before the concert that I got to hear everything. It was such a fulfilling moment, to hear the rest of it. My middle school band was so much better than my high school band.
my middle school band played this at OSU university while it was raining on the metal roof and it sounded amazing :) im a flute player and still remember how to play most of this by heart
@indidude1994 As a band director, and as someone who has had the GREAT honor of playing the trombone part for both Smith's "Into The Storm" AND Hazo's "Ride", you play in a Wind Ensemble for the experience. Some experiences may be great, others maybe not so much, but the mere fact that you're creating beautiful music for a live audience is what you live for as a performer. Yes 'Ride' is more technically challenging, but like I said, the experience is everything!
i have never heard this song before only songs by robert w smith and i thougth i should check it out and yeah its a cool song and i would have loved to play this song so i could play the flute solo sounds awesome
man the end with the percussion is so insane. im in the freshman concert band and we split the class up with brass and percussion in one and low woodwinds, saxes, clarinets and flutes in the other, so i havent really heard the percussion's big ending. so intense.
My High School's Symphonic Band played this last year... Man, I remember having so much fun with this. I think it was my favourite out of the two other ones that we played in that concert. I was a Freshman then, so hitting the high notes on my Euphonium was a bit difficult. ^^'' Still love it though.
i LOVE THIS SONG!!!! my high school band is playing this song in Concert Contest and im first Saxophone :D and we r just learniong it but we sound pretty amazing so far ^_^
Quite an excellent song. I wouldn't rate it above Great Locomotive Chase, but it's still superb. I play bari, and many of Robert W Smith's songs show why you should not wake up the base section from their sleep. I did some research, and the "Storm" the title refers to is the "Great Blizzard of 1989." It was a huge Blizzard striking eastern US in 1989. Apparently, it made such an impact on Robert W Smith that he decided to write a song based on it.
I played this in 8th grade. I play bari sax. I got to play all the accented notes. And the melody. So fun. I love this piece the hardest we played that year. Except maybe Dreams of Scotland or Drums of Daruma
Same. Im playing this for my eigth grade spring concert, we did the tempest in sixth. We were like, the only band in south georgia that did all level four music.
The evolution of my music experience through public school: The Tempest, Anasazi, and Thundercrest in middle school, Great Locomotive Chase, Arabesque, Copper Mountain Legend, Ross Roy, Persis, Krakatoa, Vesuvius, English Folk Song Suite and on and on and on... THANK-YOU, HAZO, DE HAAN, TICHELI, SMITH, VAUGHN-WILLIAMS, AND WILLIAMS!
I'm playing this tonight at my band concert!!!! We rock at this song. It's all of our favorites.
This song is sooo intense! We marched to this in high school. Probably my favorite show we ever did.
This has to be my all time favorite peice. I played this for my schools concert districts, but theat marching season we had it aranged into a marching show we has over all superiors with it for the first time in the history of our band.
We played this song in my orchestra in high school. I played Viola. This is an amazing piece. If you close your eyes you can imagine being in the middle of a storm.
I love this piece!!!XD. I first got to hear it back in 2005 when my sister played the flute part. Fell in love with it then. I got to play it at band camp of 2009 and I played the bass clarinet solo. Now in 2013, I'm playing it for my school and playing bass clarinet again and the solo again!!!XD. Great way to end my senior year!!!XD
We played this song a few years ago in band when I was in high school.
Still the best song we've ever played.
My old junior high school band played this my 9th grade year at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville, AR. I am 33 now, so you all can see how old this piece it is. It's a great piece that I think of often.
I LOVE R.W. Smith... Most of his songs remind me of Highschool concert band. I started in grade 7, and slowed down my clarinet obsession upon graduating.. but ill slowly pick it back up.
Playing this for our Spring Concert. Wish us luck! Most epic piece ever so we AREN'T going to give up.
I played French Horn and it was so much fun! I love this song and R.W. Smith writes some GREAT music
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We played this for an ajudication my senior year! Loved it... We took the tempo a lot quicker because it wasn't that hard of a piece for my band. I loved it! I was first chair clarinet that year, too. Totally rocked it. :)
I'm a senior at my high school in Smithfield, North Carolina. I played this piece about a year or two ago. I loved this piece. It has a lot of cool parts for each of the instruments. I personally enjoyed the clarinet parts, since I am one. (WOOD WINDS! WHOOT!)
I listened to this piece at state band festival today. It was absolutely amazing.
Love this song. We get to play it for our spring concert in May!~!!!!
My Middle School band played this last year. I fell in love.
Clarinets, FTW !
I loved the clarinet part in this song =) One of my favorites to play!
I fell in love with this after I heard it played by our advanced band:-)
Played it with my friends in a concert, high school band played this with us, it was awesome...
Played the trumpet and 2:30-3:30 will never leave my head. Such a great piece might pick up my trumpet again!!
The senior high concert band plays this every three years for our christmas concert.. And this is my first year, so I'm really excited to play it
this is one of best recordings of this song i have heard nice job to the band that played this peice
Flute for life!!!!
we're gonna be playing thus for consert in a month
same for me
I love this piece. Our high school is playing this piece this year. My favorite part would be in the beginning. I love the clarinets and the flute accompaniment (which I play) is simplistic and captivating.
One of my all time favorite orchestra pieces. I used to play first chair clarinet back in high school and this was my favorite to play, especially since I was the only who could get the climax right.
I really need to either find or purchase the sheet music. Haven't pulled out my clarinet in years.
this song is awsome and i love how alot of woodwinds are focussed on this song
Played this last year in middle school. It was an amazing piece of music to play, difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's smooth sailing from there. Seems easier now when I hear it since I'm in high school.
Oh snap! i have that awesome bass clarinet sound! i play that solo during band! give thumbs up to encourage me!
So much nostalgia. I played this 20 years ago.
omg!!! i miss playing so bad. i played this once upon a time with my orchestra. :( loved it so much, especially the fast part. go clarinets!!!
i am playing this song with my youth orchestra and it is an AMAZING piece
I love this song. The flute part at the beginning is so much fun to play
This song is awesome. YOu really feel you're passing through a storm
Robert Smith has a very... distinctive style. I listen to a lot of band/wind orchestra music and I can always tell when it's this guy.
I played first trumpet and I loved playing that solo soooooooo much it sounds so nice!
My band is marching this for competition band this year. It is unreal. It's so hard and the drill is crazy.
MR. RENDECK IS THE GREATEST INSTRUCTOR IN ALL THE LAND! SCRATCH THAT, THE UNIVERSE!
This can be a total marching band song like the whole show. Playing it in band and just am so happy -3 :)
I'm playing this song for a concert! Half the people in my class say they don't like it because it's difficult to play, but I LOVE IT!...It's sad that although I got 1st clarinet on this piece I'm in the class of people who didn't make audition to get in synphonic band...Which means we're not as great...Good thing we're playing the same songs at this concert. I plan on practicing my best so it will sound as beautiful as it should be!!!
I went to all county and our band played this song. it was freakin AWESOME!!
this song is AMAZING!!! it tells a story....the story of a strong hurricane(: all in all, a beautiful piece(:
We're playing The Tempest right now in middle school we played Tonoan Echoes this year and we played African Bell Carol Robert W. Smith is a great composer I play in the low brass section Bari Sax to be exact
I love this piece! I played this in Junior High some odd 10 years ago. I'm now in college for Music Education and maybe I'll get the chance to direct this piece with a junior high band of my own some day! This is an excellent piece to teach endurance to young students!
I remember playing this with my high school band. I played Oboe. I always loved this song.
My band played this today for ISSMA, along with 2 other concert pieces and a sight read, and we got gold! I love this song so much. I play the bass clarinet btw :3
i played this on the Alto clarinet in 9th...i play it on the bass clarinet in 12th now....this song is like one of those starter songs but it can actually only be played correctly and with appropriate enthusiasm in a high school band or higher...it's a really beautiful piece.
Heeeeyyy!!!! One of my ladst peices of eighth grade!!! It was our full orchestra piece! We got it two/three weeks before the concert, andhad to change it, because our notes we a third to high! SOOOOOO much fun! Rocked it! And the 1812 overture! (an easier version)
My band sight read this piece today in class.
I instantly loved it.
Amazing song! We played this in our Orchestra with the woodwinds and drums and whatnot, and it sounded amazing. I wish we could play it again, but our band director wouldn't even touch it after that. >.<
I love the cello part, but of course I do, I play the cello! :)
Phantom of the Opera is an amazing movie, and I love the main theme. Had to play it in 8th grade. It was easily the hardest thing I've ever had to play in orchestra. o.0
a school band came to our school and played this for us and it was really cool.
The loud drum and tumpets sound representing lightning made me jump back and my heart pound.
I almost fell off the high jump mat (I was sitting on the top of it)
Middle-school memories flowing back through. Percussion here!
I have to play it his weekend for our OBDA Festival of bands and our spring concert! Wish our Middle School band luck! :')
i always rewind it and listen to the beginning :D soooo EPIC!
Nothing short of amazing!
i played this song for my last jr high band concert and i was a clarinet! i miss jr high band!
this song is amazing i played this in highschool i played 1st trumpet robert w smith is THE MAN!!!!!
This is the best song I ever played and I played the bass clarinet solo on this song but played clarinet for the rest of it so it was fun having to switch my instrument in the middle of the song
This song is telling a story. It was written about the blizzard in north Georgia in 1993, i do believe. The man was snowed in and deside to use his time wisely. He did amazingly well letting the music bring the feeling of the blizzard to life.
I know! There's very loud and serious parts on both sides of the song to represent possibly a hurricane, and a very calm and almost relaxing part in the middle that I assume represents the eye of a storm. Truly a magnificent piece
thanks a lot finally a band song i play that's on youtube an good quality!
#percussion (drums)
this is so amazing i love it very nice
I play this song in band, and I play the amazing bass part! It so much fun!
Ah. I remember playing something that I can not remember. I think it was tenor or tambourine. I remember for sure playing that gong part. Fun stuff!
omg i play clarinet and this song is amazing. i hav this song memorized haha good memories in my old band with this.
The feeling I got in my chest as a 7th grader was insane because the way we divided our 7th grade band was brass w/ male percussionist and woodwind with female percussionists (idk why we did that but whatever). So what I’d hear in the Brass class was just a big BOOM and then dead silence over and over. It wasn’t until about 3 days before the concert that I got to hear everything. It was such a fulfilling moment, to hear the rest of it. My middle school band was so much better than my high school band.
my middle school band played this at OSU university while it was raining on the metal roof and it sounded amazing :) im a flute player and still remember how to play most of this by heart
I'm an Alto Saxophone player and I just got this music, it sounds epic! It's difficult so far, but epic!
I am playing this song in my seventh grade band! its so fun!!!
this is an amazing piece, our MIDDLE SCHOOL band played it for concert festival
@indidude1994 As a band director, and as someone who has had the GREAT honor of playing the trombone part for both Smith's "Into The Storm" AND Hazo's "Ride", you play in a Wind Ensemble for the experience. Some experiences may be great, others maybe not so much, but the mere fact that you're creating beautiful music for a live audience is what you live for as a performer. Yes 'Ride' is more technically challenging, but like I said, the experience is everything!
i love the flutes.. i pplay flute.. i hope we get to play this.. we play the tempest right now... i love this. so beautiful...
My high school is playing this for our spring concert. Im so excited to play it :D
This remains the most amazing song I have ever had the honor to play. The song itself is incredible and it's just fun to play.
I love this song. I played this at my school Christmas concert. I play percussion:)
This is absolutely fantastic
dude! this song is awesome! our marching band is playing it this year!
This great but I'm sure you know that.
Absolutely fantastic intonation :-$
Played this last year in band and it was the best piece we played in band
I'm playing this in high school concert band
1st trumpet :D
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i have never heard this song before only songs by robert w smith and i thougth i should check it out and yeah its a cool song and i would have loved to play this song so i could play the flute solo sounds awesome
we're playing this right now in band and it sounds amazing!
Concert? Bring it to contest ;) Its a great piece for middle-high school bands to play to wow the judges :)
Played this song in band. Loved it
man the end with the percussion is so insane. im in the freshman concert band and we split the class up with brass and percussion in one and low woodwinds, saxes, clarinets and flutes in the other, so i havent really heard the percussion's big ending. so intense.
im playing this for my spring concert (we are a 9th grade band) cant wait love this song its hard but thats the best part lol
My High School's Symphonic Band played this last year... Man, I remember having so much fun with this. I think it was my favourite out of the two other ones that we played in that concert. I was a Freshman then, so hitting the high notes on my Euphonium was a bit difficult. ^^'' Still love it though.
Have you always played euphonium
Aliah Lacy Yep. ;3 I love it.
woo!!! the 1000th comment!!! Love this song. We are about to play it
I can't believe it, that is too cool!
i LOVE THIS SONG!!!! my high school band is playing this song in Concert Contest and im first Saxophone :D and we r just learniong it but we sound pretty amazing so far ^_^
i am surprised that my band doesn't play this. it sounds like a blast to play
Played it in band, it was awesome :)
Quite an excellent song. I wouldn't rate it above Great Locomotive Chase, but it's still superb. I play bari, and many of Robert W Smith's songs show why you should not wake up the base section from their sleep. I did some research, and the "Storm" the title refers to is the "Great Blizzard of 1989." It was a huge Blizzard striking eastern US in 1989. Apparently, it made such an impact on Robert W Smith that he decided to write a song based on it.
I played this in 8th grade. I play bari sax. I got to play all the accented notes. And the melody. So fun. I love this piece the hardest we played that year. Except maybe Dreams of Scotland or Drums of Daruma
I played this in my school band last year and it was fun to play
this is the best song i played on my sax a few summers ago in sixth.
Same. Im playing this for my eigth grade spring concert, we did the tempest in sixth. We were like, the only band in south georgia that did all level four music.
We're playing this in band. I love the horn part so much.
Very fun song to play !!
I love this song.
Played this last year for Band Festival. Got a 1! :D Flutes FTW!
The evolution of my music experience through public school: The Tempest, Anasazi, and Thundercrest in middle school, Great Locomotive Chase, Arabesque, Copper Mountain Legend, Ross Roy, Persis, Krakatoa, Vesuvius, English Folk Song Suite and on and on and on...
THANK-YOU, HAZO, DE HAAN, TICHELI, SMITH, VAUGHN-WILLIAMS, AND WILLIAMS!