I showed this entire piece to my music teacher. Throughout the piece, she was shocked at what she was looking at. She told me "Richard is crazy!" (But in a good way)
From 2:37 to 3:11 was heaven when I played this piece in year 6. I'm a viola player and the fact that we got 13 bars of the violas getting the melody made my heart soar. It was only 2 violas against 20 violins and yet we were louder than them at this point on performance night. Truly one of my favourite pieces.
cello is the superior instrument voice deep but not to rumble like bass and able to hit high notes like viola and violin but still retains a rich sound
@@CrazyFlyingMonk no, violin is superior because we get to get higher chairs by screeching our e string until they collapse and then we eventually get first chair
@@nicholasmcintyre so cellos have rich,beautiful and wholesome sounds and violins are cutthroat creatures that screech to assert dominance over other violins?
Played this freshman year of high school and the viola soli at 2:37 has an interesting story. I was one of the only two violas that would play out in our section. The other viola was put on the other part. By the time of the concert, I knew the soli for the first orchestra by heart. I got congratulated for a solo I didn’t have (:
Ultimate Change in this crazy masterpiece 6:54 My music teacher tried this out on her violin when she saw this and she did really good, and she noticed this was a mixture of a famous piece.
hah, the viola soli has "most replayed" on the playback graph also I feel like 1:57 (measure 43) is a Legend of the Ghost Stallion reference (or the reverse, I have no idea when each was published), but just a theory EDIT: this was 2017 and LotGS was 2019. Nevermind
I played this less than a year ago, it was by far the best song I’ve ever played in an orchestra by far. The bass solo was really fun too. Especially because if you messed it up, then the 5k people watching would instantly know. But I nailed that. 😁
Lmao, aside from the fact that this song is not at all about African/African American culture, but is actually about American/Middle Eastern culture. It seems like you're the person who doesn't understand the piece.
Danielle Mitchell this song has nothing to do with black culture. If you read the description of the song, 1 part of the orchestra plays American songs, and the other with Middle Eastern Folk songs.
why do you feel the need to gloat about yourself on the internet? ok, you can shift. congrats. want a cookie, bitch? i can shift, the rest of the violin I's can shift. the violin II's can shift. the violas. the cellos and basses (obviously but still). no one cares that you can shift. if someone cared to know, they would've asked you
richard be on some crazy shit when he making these songs and thats why hes my favorite person like ever
Lol
Your old profile picture was so good
istg he snorts a line of coke and makes shit like this
We have _the sound of a sound_ and then we have *_hemispheres_*
Naw fr LMAOAO
I showed this entire piece to my music teacher. Throughout the piece, she was shocked at what she was looking at. She told me "Richard is crazy!" (But in a good way)
Not a hard piece for middle school tho. (Tmea💪)
I showed this to mine and she looked indifferent the entire time
@AcaciusR fr
From 2:37 to 3:11 was heaven when I played this piece in year 6. I'm a viola player and the fact that we got 13 bars of the violas getting the melody made my heart soar. It was only 2 violas against 20 violins and yet we were louder than them at this point on performance night. Truly one of my favourite pieces.
@Jordan Yu thats so awesome violas never get any attencion sadly
Seems like our viola kin got a little too excited (there was a little bit of rushing at one part)
Now imagine that with a bass😂
My first listen I thought that was a cello solo 😭
The cello soli is absolutely beautiful. I am a cellist so I may be biased, but it is very comforting to hear the deep "voice" of the cello.
cello is the superior instrument voice deep but not to rumble like bass and able to hit high notes like viola and violin but still retains a rich sound
@@CrazyFlyingMonk no, violin is superior because we get to get higher chairs by screeching our e string until they collapse and then we eventually get first chair
@@nicholasmcintyre so cellos have rich,beautiful and wholesome sounds and violins are cutthroat creatures that screech to assert dominance over other violins?
@CrazyFlyingMonk it was a joke
@@vio1827 i know
I played this in my Sophomore year in high school 3 years ago, I used to play the viola. I absolutely loved playing the Soli we had at 2:37
I'm playing sophomore year (now) but as cello
Same here! I had so much fun playing this piece junior year.
our conductor is throwing this piece at us and we are 8th grade. .....im a bass player so I don't mind but the violins are freaking out
i always thought that was a cello solo LOL
Aaah fellow violaaaaaa playerr
7:50 all the way to the end has my eyes watering
Exactly can't help but tear up
(6:54) i literally cannot imagine the nerves the two solo violins would get in this section
Played this freshman year of high school and the viola soli at 2:37 has an interesting story. I was one of the only two violas that would play out in our section. The other viola was put on the other part. By the time of the concert, I knew the soli for the first orchestra by heart. I got congratulated for a solo I didn’t have (:
@LIttleJaxel Damn thats hillarious, I've had that happen before... in first violin...
While listening i got a Chick-fil-A ad and i thought the plucking was part of this piece😂😂😂
Ultimate Change in this crazy masterpiece 6:54
My music teacher tried this out on her violin when she saw this and she did really good, and she noticed this was a mixture of a famous piece.
i love the bass solos!
Bass gang
All 3 of them in the entire selection of orchestral songs!
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8:34 is the best part prove me wrong
Not wrong
It's so beautiful bro
Its too hard to not agree with you lol its just so good
4:49 to 5:45 was so amazing us basses getting to have the melody for so long, it was really nice :')
i love this song
CHARLIE Starbellagiok agreed
don't we all haha
Who wouldn't? Unless you're playing it lol
Its not a song, its a "piece" 😒😂
piece* 🙄🙄
This piece just gives me goosebumps, it sounds so good all the way through.
that cello solo at 3:37 is so gorgeous
Thank god I'm going to play that for my upcoming concert.
i'm just looking at music i want to play but can't and holy fuuuuuuuu this is incredible richard is like my favorite composer
idk what richard meyer is on but i wanna be on it too
also you can hear, in the cello solo, a TON of influence from Ode to Joy.
8:58 is so amazing ❤
1:53 the melody is awfully familiar with another piece called hoedown expect for barnyard like
it's called bonaparte's retreat with the 16th notes, and then the violin solo is called Stars and Stripes Forever.
yeah, i played hoedown a couple years ago. its exactly the same
Well at 1:30 and 1:35 he directly quotes hoedown
well yeah it's a direct excerpt from that song lol
hah, the viola soli has "most replayed" on the playback graph
also I feel like 1:57 (measure 43) is a Legend of the Ghost Stallion reference (or the reverse, I have no idea when each was published), but just a theory
EDIT: this was 2017 and LotGS was 2019. Nevermind
I kinda hear the star spangled banner in this for some reason...
Well one of the themes he uses to represent the west is Stars and Stripes Forever, so that might be it
richard be doing 3 on 4 why u do dis to us
To represent cultural dissonance
He also be doing 10/8
Bro we had to play this in the camerata group for my seventh grade yearrrr now all I can think of when it comes to playing the high “b” is this song 😂
Those violas at 2:26 🥰
If you're talking about the top part, that's violin 2!
1:34 sounds like Vivaldi violin concerto in A minor, near the end
Cello soli is actually Isma’a by Leanne Darling!
I love but to scared to do bass solo part
magma king 101 I'm a bass player too😁
Same
Ayyyy family
I played this less than a year ago, it was by far the best song I’ve ever played in an orchestra by far. The bass solo was really fun too. Especially because if you messed it up, then the 5k people watching would instantly know. But I nailed that. 😁
MoonLyte technically more of a duet but It’s still fun ;-)
Super Grâce carry on the good work .So proud of your music talent...mamie and papi in France
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who puts ads in the middle of a piece
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this song is great, but listening to it/playing it IRL is a COMPLETELY different experience.
This sound like a song that we would play in my 7th grade orchestra
when I got this, I was like NA-NI
Is that Stars and Stripes forever at 2:00 😂
2:05 to 2:15 is nice
Idk what richard was on while writing this, but i want some
people who aren't black probably won't understand the approx. 4:00-5:00 region. but this song made me cry for real.
Lmao, aside from the fact that this song is not at all about African/African American culture, but is actually about American/Middle Eastern culture. It seems like you're the person who doesn't understand the piece.
actually, this is about all the cultures of the Earth, hence the name “Hemispheres” . So, in a way, y’all are both right.
Danielle Mitchell Why? Sorry I'm white 💀
Danielle Mitchell this song has nothing to do with black culture. If you read the description of the song, 1 part of the orchestra plays American songs, and the other with Middle Eastern Folk songs.
It’s god save the queen which is a British song
8:52 i can feel a bassist take it down an octave
Anyone know that actual name of the piece they play at the end?
My highschool cellos could never 😂
I just realized the main upper violin theme is kind of just hoedown from Copland’s rodeo
I wanna play this song so bad with my school orchestra but they cant shift yet. Im the only one who can shift
why do you feel the need to gloat about yourself on the internet? ok, you can shift. congrats. want a cookie, bitch? i can shift, the rest of the violin I's can shift. the violin II's can shift. the violas. the cellos and basses (obviously but still). no one cares that you can shift. if someone cared to know, they would've asked you
Danielle Mitchell y u such a bitch
Holy shit why are you so angry?
Danielle Mitchell I’m sure that’s not what they meant. Furthermore, why do you care?
I’m sure they are saying that there sad the rest of the orchestra can’t shift yet
i still think them playing stars and stripes forever in the middle of the song is funny 💀
2:46
Guess who’s the soloist 😬
Ikr
It’s not the violas that’s for sure 😂 congrats tho
Who
the add starts playing me: YOU JUST HAD TO RUIN IT 😡😭
Fun
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