Holst: First Suite for Military Band in E-Flat major Op.28-1 | Tokyo

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1. what grade do most people play this?
2. Watching the video at 0:22, I'm reminded of an old joke. A high ranking military officer (who knew nothing about music) had on his agenda for the day to observe the Marine Band in rehearsal, for say, 10 minutes and make sure everything was in order, prior to the band's planned evening Presidential performance. The officer fulfilled his duty. And in doing so, he approached the conductor when the band took a short break during rehearsal.
   The officer politely said to the band director, "Pay a little more attention to your trombones. The precise movement of their right arms could stand improvement; in fact, sometimes their arms don't even move in the same direction. Otherwise, everything else is fine. Carry on."
3. I love a director who knows when he can trust his group. This director doesn't micromanage the music.
4. When someone asks me how life is 1:30
5. I love how into it the clarinets are.
6. It's majestic
7. I've played this piece 6 times with 6 different groups and it's still my favorite. Great performance!
8. We are playing this in band
9. Un an de service militaire dans la musique a au moins contribué à me faire connaitre quelques oeuvres (et non des chefs d'oeuvre) musicales. Cette suite de Holst est plaisante à écouter et bien construite; elle est interprétée ici par un orchestre de haut niveau
10. Very nice! I like subtle trumpet accents during the clarinet phrase at 8:57-9:02. There were so many of these well-delivered accents! Nice work, all!!
11. the second movement is my favorite thing.
12. I played this last year in my school Concert band all the memories a flooding back, it's such a great piece
13. We played this in my school band. I suddenly felt like listening to it, and now here I am.
14. I played this song last year and I played the snare drum part. Love this piece
15. People don't disagree on this particular piece or band very well played !
16. omg, this is like yesterday. We used to play this in school.
    6:07 I love the intermezzo part so much. I still have the 1st flute part somewhere!
17. Good overall and spectacular moments, but rhythmically imprecise and shaky intonation at times.
18. 一人ひとり、一つひとつの音が響いてきて、大好きな演奏です。
19. 3:27-4:52 has to be some of the best music ever to be written in history
20. I love that they use the intended instrumentation as evidenced by the use of cornets instead of trumpets.