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So do you guys like any other composers besides Elfman, the genius?
Film composers:
Evan Evans – you’ll see him popping up a lot on my lists
You can download his stuff at mp3.comHarry Gregson-Williams
Bernard Herrman (sp?)
Korngold
Zimmer’s original release of the “Gladiator” score
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Pure music – so many that I’ll list just a few:Carolyn Bremer – Early Light, etc…
Johan de Meij – LOTR symphony, La Quintessenza, T-bone, etc
Rolf Rudin – Dreams of Oenghus, The Druids
Shostakovich
Mark Camphouse – the Watchman (I think that’s what it’s called…I played it in All State about 4 years back…)
(There’s also another All State piece, for which I can’t remember the composer, but its called “Vesuvius.” And it rocks my world, baby! It’s a lot like POTA: driving percussion and nice powerful horn riffs…like Spidey! Playing that was just about the most satisfying experience of my entire life: 125 creme de la creme musicians on a massive stage with a packed house – only about 25% were parents – cranking out sheer power and emotion. I cried like a baby after that, just because the entire experience was three days of putting forth massive quantities of emotions I didn’t know I possessed. Man, that was the life! If everything could be as mind-blowing as that, I’d be in heaven…dead from exhaustion, quite literally).
etc, etc, etc…the list could go on and on! Think of just about anything 20th-cent. and I’ll probably include its composer on my list
Well, there is John Williams, of course. I say this because he’s the first composer I heard. E.T. was my first movie experience when I was 2 years old and it greatly affected me. I went into hysterics in the theater because I didn’t want E.T. to go home. My family has not let me live it down to this day. I still love the score and it’s always stuck in my head.
Vesuvius is by Frank Ticheli, and it’s a grade 4 – – that’s one of the things I love about Frank Ticheli, is that he writes really good music for all grade levels. I feel like most other composers just stay stuck in one grade for their whole lives :-p
My band teacher got to be Frank Ticheli’s chauffeur and show him around and stuff when he came to their school to do the premier of a piece that was commisioned for them. He said the whole time he kept asking him, “Do you know this piece?” “Nope.” “Well, do you know this piece?” “Nope.” “Then do you know this piece?” “Nope.” Thought that was kinda funny
Cool…Tichelli, I should of realized! Thanks, Infynitie
Have you played it? What did you think?-E
Uuuhhhmmm, I *might* have played it back when I was a scum-sucking flute player, but if I did I don’t remember it that well! From the recording I’ve heard, I’m not particularly crazy about it . . . not enough low stuff. Of course, I say that as a bassoonist and beginning tubist, so what do you expect? One similar piece that I played this year (that you might enjoy . . . and that I thought sounded like a cross between Danny Elfman and The Lost World by John Williams) is Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance. A crapload of percussion, some cool low reed stuff, and lots and lots and lots of trombone . . . In my experience, recordings of it are a bit hard to come by, so if you want to hear one just let me know and I’ll e-mail you a recording of my band playing it (which would be a lot better if we had actually TRIED . . . stupid people not practicing)
Alan Silvestri is fantastico! He doesn’t get much credit has he should do. Just like Elfman!
I played alto sax in that!
I don’t remember much except the cool bongos (and other assorted percussion).
Have any of you played Laturgical Dances by Holsinger?
That and Reed’s Armenian Dances No.1 were my two favorite pieces while in band.
Yup, I’ve played Reed’s Armenian Dances, and a heck of a lot of other stuff by him as well. (He taught my college band director at University of Miami back in 92). Met the guy…kinda old and goofy, but seemingly very nice. (He directed my college wind ensemble last year for a concert in the Spring…we premiered his “King Lear” piece…good, but not as good as Hamlet). Not played the HOlsinger piece, though…what’s it like? Anything you could compare it to?
Infynitie – yeah, I’d love a recording sample. My email should be listed on top…
-E
Tichelli also wrote a killer piece called Blue Shades. Very cool.
I’ve played it twice (with two different bands!
)Jonny
Ticheli, people, not Tichelli!!
Not really. Lots of composers do amazing work–but I’ve only found Danny to be obsessive-worthy.
How could you guys forget about Shore?!?!
Reed….it rings a bell for me. I think I played Armenian dances before, but when I played contrabass clarinet. I hated the damn thing. Incantation and Dance I played just this year. And recordings of it aren’t really hard to come by, just good recordings are hard to come by. I played Vesuvius as a 1st Trumpet and I looooooved it. I tried playing it again on my Bb Clarinet and Bassoon, but it just wasn’t the same. Shostakovich…I think I played Oboe in an honors band somewhere with a song called Galop. I think that was by him, but I’m not sure. I also played Variations on a Korean Folk Song on my English horn, but that wasn’t as good as Incantation and Dance. Did anybody ever play a song called Hill Country Flourishes? I played it in my Junior Winds Ensemble a while back and don’t remember how it sounds.
Cool, found this site while looking for a recording of Vesuvius. My band’s playing it for a competition next year.
Sounds like some of you play more than one instrument… must be tough. Had to drop learning the violin to enter my school’s wind ensemble, playing the trombone now. Thank god for grade 8 music background.
My band conductor refuses to get the orchestral versions of John William’s pieces… says we’re only good enough to play a simplified version. Howard Shore’s LOTR: Two Towers is a great piece but the trombone part is as dull as ever.
Just a question. Anyone played Mark Camphouse’s Movement for Rosa?
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