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I was browsing at jwpepper.com getting all nostalgic about high school band again (even though my last performance was only 2 months ago . . . I still really really miss it) and found a coupla things. One was the Batman band music . . . yeah, been there, done that, but there was a Real Audio recording. I’m too lazy to find it now, but I’ve given all the necessary information for anyone to find it themselves.
Another was a really awful Planet of the Apes main titles arrangement for an elementary school band. Oh well. It sounds like it gives the wee little percussionists SOMETHING to do besides pick their noses and flick boogers at each other. http://jwpepper.com/ram/2471361.ram
Probably the best of the three was an arrangement of the Spider-man main titles for a full orchestra. http://jwpepper.com/cgi-bin/bandCGI?id=GUESTUSR&passwd=
LOOK&wwwinvno=NONE&catcde=A&inclass=I&ccode=16&ingrade=
A&bytitle=T&group=100# It sounds like it’s maybe a grade 3 or 4 or something, middle of the road difficulty. And it sounds like a lot of fun to play. It’s basically intact . . . but without the annoying skittery synthy crap, just the way I like it! And again, it gives the percussionists something to do, because they still have not grown up since elementary school and are still picking their noses and flicking boogers at each other.OK, I just looked and there’s some more, too. I see a few more Spider-mans (for concert bands) as well as a Simpsons concert band arrangement. I haven’t really looked through the marching band or jazz band yet. Just in case anyone’s interested :-p
I’m actually way more excited about some of their Lord of the Rings arrangements, but none of the Elfman scores I REALLY love will probably ever get this treatment, and never should anyway (Edward Scissorhands, for example).
I really don’t know why you think this music was performed by a bunch of elementary school students. Have you ever been in the band when you were that young? It’s probably the most horrible music you’ve ever heard! If these, so you say, 3rd and 4th graders are performing Spiderman like this, I’d sure as hell like to see them!
Have you ever been in band, Jay? It is level 3 or level 4 that’s the level of the music. That would be like 8th, 9th, maybe even 10th grade.
What are you talking about? Maybe it is arranged for elementary school band, but the demo was probably performed by professionals…
The demo is synths.
why would an elementary school band play POTA? of all things, I would think maybe batman, or beetlejuice, maybe even spider-man, but POTA, c’mon
Like band kids ever get a choice . . . music is expensive, school music programs are NEVER going to have enough money, and a good band teacher will pick music that he thinks will be appropriate for his or her particular band and help them develop.
Personally I don’t think this arrangement sells well at all. Maybe there’s a few Elfman-loving band teachers out there that wouldn’t mind hearing the music butchered both by the arrangement and their students, but honestly . . . I was never even in a band with a tuba player until my junior year (and of course sitting directly in front of the tuba I quickly fell in love with it and picked the tuba up myself after a few months!) . . . and you would have to have some tall elementary school kids with freakishly strong lungs to be playing tuba as their first instrument. Plus, percussion-wise I know my middle school band would have had those instruments but definitely not elementary school (although of course there’s no law against middle schoolers playing this, it just sounds boring as heck for them).
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