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    OK, everyone remember that weird little recording thingy of Sleepy Hollow (for marching band) at the Hal Leonard website? This first (and unfortunately it has to be the last) year that I’ve been in marching band, our field show is called “Blockbusters” and has 3 things from Hal Leonard – – Mission: Impossible, The Patriot, and Gladiator (part 3 of Gladiator, it’s Barbarian Horde). We’ve listened to the recordings (2 of which are available for listening on the Hal Leonard website) and . . . yeah, I know, it sounds really crappy. It’s all synths. We’ve only worked on Gladiator so far, but I can tell you that the demo version sounds about as much like us as diet tastes like the real thing.

    I guess my point is . . . the Sleepy Hollow thing probably sounds a bizillion times better when it’s done “for real”. Anybody wanna convince their band directors to do it next year? I know I would kill to hear a real recording of it.

    #41234
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    Hm…they have the “Spider-man” main title sequence there as well…how odd…I wasn’t aware that they arranged film music so quickly!

    -E

    #41235
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    Wow! Thanks for pointing that out. Did you listen to the concert band (demo!!!) recording?? It’s only a grade 3, but I bet with actual *people* playing it, it would be kind of cool (ooh, and for the love of god, can it PLEASE be sped up a little?)

    I’ll work to convince my band director to at least let the freshman band play it. I convinced him halfway through last year to start getting our concerts recorded, so maybe I could eventually get a real recording of a band playing it :-) I am quite content to be the teacher-manipulating flutist-turned-bassoonist-and-tubist who wants to hear everything ever written for band . . . playing it is great, but I get giddy just hearing things like that.

    I remember in December I was talking with the school’s orchestra director and he had just ordered a Harry Potter medley (our orchestras are strings-only though, so it didn’t really affect me). And I remember something like a month after Titanic came out, my band played a Titanic medley in middle school (and all 4 of the school’s concert bands played it . . . sickening, huh?)

    It’s really a shame that until just now, I didn’t think that there were any arrangements whatsoever of Elfman scores for concert bands. There’s a whole crapload of John Williams stuff (and I swear to god, I’ve played every one of them in community band . . . I would die of shock if we ever played anything that wasn’t by Williams or Sousa), but other than that, I actually can’t think of much film music for bands from any composer. I bet Beetlejuice could be really awesome, and as long as they made sure not to dumb it down, Sleepy Hollow would be great.

    #41236
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    what’s the link?

    #41520
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    If our band director can get a thousand dollar donation, we can definitely get the music. We also need new tubas, baritone BC’s, bass clarinets, etc… But anyway, I didn’t like the band version too much.

    There are three ways to look at music:

    ONE: I you play any band instrument beside clarinet, flute, or trumpet, you’re doomed to a band. You will BASICALLY always have boring parts in orchestras. So, on the which-music-is-better-side, you will have to like band music. Trumpets, clarinets, and flutes have a LOT of parts in orchestras. So they could be either side.

    TWO: If you play any stringed instrument (bass, violin, viola, cello) you are doomed to an orchestra. No way you’re getting in a band! Consequently, you’re also doomed to liking orchestrated music. However, you can be a groupie in a rock band and when they need orchestrations join them. Bluegrass bands always need bass and violins. So there.

    THREE: If you play both a band instrument and a stringed instrument, you can prefer both! Because you could either be in two different orchestras, (that’d be hard) or join an orchestra and a band. Or, piano, which you can imagine…. Pretty hard to get a spot as THAT, though. Now there’s also the possibility of a boner going into an orchestra, ‘cos you know they need ’em…

    -Em
    “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire a Public Relations writer.” -Boorstin.

    #41824
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    There you guys go….getting all excited and talking in that music jagon that I will never understand! Excuse me while I scrape the envy from my walls….

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