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 Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:26 pm
So in preparation for our upcoming Aloha Concert (Aloha meaning 'Fare thee well' to the graduating seniors) Our band director has graced us with a new piece. And although our rendition of it isn't perfect, I found it to be rather enticing. I looked it up on YouTube, and found my new favorite musical piece ever. I thought to share it with all of you musicians. It's called Pictures at an Exhibition by a guy named Modest Mussorgsky (I'm REALLY hoping I spelled that right). It has 6+ movements. The band arrangement that we're doing only includes six, the six that I personally believe are the most interesting. The piece is Russian, and was composed for Mussorgsky's deceased friend who had done a load of paintings that were hanging at an exhibition. Pictures at an Exhibition is pretty much Mussorgsky's journey through the exhibition, looking at the different pieces his friend did (i.e. The Ox Cart [Bydlo] and The Great Gate of Kiev). If you haven't already heard of this piece, I highly recommend you listen to it and note the musical craftsmanship of it. I'm only a high schooler, so I wouldn't know, but there truly is something about this piece that makes me feel like I'm somewhere so much better than where I am now. I. Promenade / II. The Old Castle My favorite movement would be the second. It's 5:39 on the video.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:28 am
Vyemina Hearts So in preparation for our upcoming Aloha Concert (Aloha meaning 'Fare thee well' to the graduating seniors) Our band director has graced us with a new piece. And although our rendition of it isn't perfect, I found it to be rather enticing. I looked it up on YouTube, and found my new favorite musical piece ever. I thought to share it with all of you musicians. It's called Pictures at an Exhibition by a guy named Modest Mussorgsky (I'm REALLY hoping I spelled that right). It has 6+ movements. The band arrangement that we're doing only includes six, the six that I personally believe are the most interesting. The piece is Russian, and was composed for Mussorgsky's deceased friend who had done a load of paintings that were hanging at an exhibition. Pictures at an Exhibition is pretty much Mussorgsky's journey through the exhibition, looking at the different pieces his friend did (i.e. The Ox Cart [Bydlo] and The Great Gate of Kiev). If you haven't already heard of this piece, I highly recommend you listen to it and note the musical craftsmanship of it. I'm only a high schooler, so I wouldn't know, but there truly is something about this piece that makes me feel like I'm somewhere so much better than where I am now. I. Promenade / II. The Old Castle My favorite movement would be the second. It's 5:39 on the video. Ahh, hawaii, xD Pearl City High school, Pictures at an exhibition, (well, a condensed version) was the opener of our marching band field show. Indeed, we had our aloha concert just this past week, beautiful piece, the concert/orchestral version of it is beautiful,
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:26 pm
We're playing it rite now in youth orchestra. Its cool, but I think its a bit cliche and there are better things out there. Although if you're a trumpet player I'm not surprised you love it so much =) . For horns it has some pretty cool stuff, like an insane double tounging excerpt and some fun low blasting. In general its a pretty fun piece. I've never played the band arrangement.
By the way some back ground history on pictures, originally it was composed by mussorsgy, and it was only a piano piece. At first it was not very popular because it strayed from traditional German compositions. It was one of the first major pieces of Russian literature. Only after his death did it become popular when Ravel orchestrated the piece and made some minor changes to make the piece less radical.
Hope you have fun playing!
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:17 am
MezzoPianoX Vyemina Hearts So in preparation for our upcoming Aloha Concert (Aloha meaning 'Fare thee well' to the graduating seniors) Our band director has graced us with a new piece. And although our rendition of it isn't perfect, I found it to be rather enticing. I looked it up on YouTube, and found my new favorite musical piece ever. I thought to share it with all of you musicians. It's called Pictures at an Exhibition by a guy named Modest Mussorgsky (I'm REALLY hoping I spelled that right). It has 6+ movements. The band arrangement that we're doing only includes six, the six that I personally believe are the most interesting. The piece is Russian, and was composed for Mussorgsky's deceased friend who had done a load of paintings that were hanging at an exhibition. Pictures at an Exhibition is pretty much Mussorgsky's journey through the exhibition, looking at the different pieces his friend did (i.e. The Ox Cart [Bydlo] and The Great Gate of Kiev). If you haven't already heard of this piece, I highly recommend you listen to it and note the musical craftsmanship of it. I'm only a high schooler, so I wouldn't know, but there truly is something about this piece that makes me feel like I'm somewhere so much better than where I am now. I. Promenade / II. The Old Castle My favorite movement would be the second. It's 5:39 on the video. Ahh, hawaii, xD Pearl City High school, Pictures at an exhibition, (well, a condensed version) was the opener of our marching band field show. Indeed, we had our aloha concert just this past week, beautiful piece, the concert/orchestral version of it is beautiful,
Ahahaha, Hawaii. Yes, Hawaii.
James Campbell HS, I do believe your former temp is very close with my current director :p
He was mentioning how you guys did it this past marching season, today in fact.
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@Candy: Hahaha, I don't believe I've heard this piece around enough to consider it cliche... I really wouldn't know quite yet.
I'm currently hooked on 'The Old Castle' and portions of 'The Hut of Baba Yaga.' That's all. :p
I usually do a thread like this for pieces we do every year that I consider great choices,
but lately the real Musicians Forum has been filled with nothing but trolls.
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 11:08 am
Vyemina Hearts MezzoPianoX Vyemina Hearts So in preparation for our upcoming Aloha Concert (Aloha meaning 'Fare thee well' to the graduating seniors) Our band director has graced us with a new piece. And although our rendition of it isn't perfect, I found it to be rather enticing. I looked it up on YouTube, and found my new favorite musical piece ever. I thought to share it with all of you musicians. It's called Pictures at an Exhibition by a guy named Modest Mussorgsky (I'm REALLY hoping I spelled that right). It has 6+ movements. The band arrangement that we're doing only includes six, the six that I personally believe are the most interesting. The piece is Russian, and was composed for Mussorgsky's deceased friend who had done a load of paintings that were hanging at an exhibition. Pictures at an Exhibition is pretty much Mussorgsky's journey through the exhibition, looking at the different pieces his friend did (i.e. The Ox Cart [Bydlo] and The Great Gate of Kiev). If you haven't already heard of this piece, I highly recommend you listen to it and note the musical craftsmanship of it. I'm only a high schooler, so I wouldn't know, but there truly is something about this piece that makes me feel like I'm somewhere so much better than where I am now. I. Promenade / II. The Old Castle My favorite movement would be the second. It's 5:39 on the video. Ahh, hawaii, xD Pearl City High school, Pictures at an exhibition, (well, a condensed version) was the opener of our marching band field show. Indeed, we had our aloha concert just this past week, beautiful piece, the concert/orchestral version of it is beautiful,
Ahahaha, Hawaii. Yes, Hawaii.
James Campbell HS, I do believe your former temp is very close with my current director :p
He was mentioning how you guys did it this past marching season, today in fact.
:p
@Candy: Hahaha, I don't believe I've heard this piece around enough to consider it cliche... I really wouldn't know quite yet.
I'm currently hooked on 'The Old Castle' and portions of 'The Hut of Baba Yaga.' That's all. :p
I usually do a thread like this for pieces we do every year that I consider great choices,
but lately the real Musicians Forum has been filled with nothing but trolls.
Ahhh Kendall Ledesma? So I see.... Campbell... Gifted music program... under appreciated though.. I think that there are lots of gifted music programs on the island that lack the funds to be great... And wow... People actually recognized what our theme was xD I didn't fully understand the meaning of it till mid season...
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:47 pm
I love that song. 'nough said.
I've played arrangements of it in jr high and elementary school, and probably in high school, but I don't remember.
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 12:29 am
I played the song in college, in the wind band...we don't have any strings...wished we did. I love it. I wish we would play the whole thing instead of parts of it...but oh well, at lest we played it....there were some parts that were killers....
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