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 Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:59 am
So, I have to go play at graduation in a few hours, so I thought I'd make a topic.
In my experiences, nobody likes to play the dreaded, predictable Pomp and Circumstance.
Share stories, opinions, and the like.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:11 am
lol...
This last year we had to play it many many times and I played it every single time. (I'm sure some others didn't.) The awkward sounding quarter notes of the bassoon part bother me. XD
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:45 am
Haha I was one of the last ones done, I only had to play about twenty measures, my poor friend... She had to play it four times... Haha I laughed...
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:26 am
My band director slightly changed it, so it didn't seem as a drag. but normally i don't mind, because if its basically the same thing, you can let your eyes wander to the graduation ceremony (while using peripheral vision to take note of the beat)
3nodding
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:27 pm
I hate that song with a raging passion. Especially the repetition in the tuba part. It's very, very boring to play.
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:50 pm
In my band the saxes and the clarinets trade off the first half of the song every time we repeat so they don't get tired, but once both sections thought it wasn't there turn so no one played except for the percussion while my bd just kept on conducting until we all started laughing. It was awesome blaugh
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:44 pm
Percussion part is soooooo boring...
Only three parts, and like, eight of us.
I figure everyone else'll switch off at some point or another but I'll just be sitting there reading or watching the seniors come in, or attempting to mess with my boyfriend's head. XD But that'd be bad 'cause he'd actually be playing...so...maybe not.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:49 pm
Three words: The Tuba Part.
It's so boring. We actually count how many times we play it every year. This year, we hit a new record: 27 Times.
Agh!! And the tubas can't really switch off, there was only two of us. The other three were graduating.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:27 pm
Bleh! I loathe that song. All we play are those constant quarter notes! Since I had the 1st trombone part, they moved a little, but it was all in my upper range. At least our BD had us switch to Olympic Spirit in the middle (as a surprise) and my lips got a break.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:55 am
oh my god i hate pomp and circumstance!! and at the stupid rehearsal our band director forgot the dang music xp and this was my 1st time playing it so i sat there the whole time acting like i new it. at least at the graduation she brought the music....
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:26 pm
Pomp & Circumstance must
BURN IN HELL! twisted
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:35 pm
Last year since the other euphonium player didn't show up to play I had to play it every time and had to play a bit louder than normal. By the end my mouth was hurting. I did end up memorizing the evil song.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:35 pm
The song is so traditional, I just hate it.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:42 am
DUHHH DUHDUHDUH DUAAAHHH NUAAAHH...
It's pure s**t.
(' > . <)
I skipped playing at graduation last year... and the year before... *snort* So I've never actually had to sit through the torture of playing it during the actual cermony. Just hearing it is enough to send me on a homicidal rampage... just the disorder of the rehearsals, no one wanting to be there, everyone at the band director's throat, having to play that wretched song over and over and over until the band director can feign confidence that we will actually show up, never mind play it well, at graduation.
(-_-)
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:43 am
exdraghunt Three words: The Tuba Part. It's so boring. We actually count how many times we play it every year. This year, we hit a new record: 27 Times. Agh!! And the tubas can't really switch off, there was only two of us. The other three were graduating.
I play tuba now.
I'm in for it aren't I? xD
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