Australian Concert Bands

Hornist · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: 2008 Nationals in Brisbane

I'm not sure if I could play with North West, you guys are too fair dinkum, you know me, I like to do the minimal rehearsals and besides, if I played with a concert band in Brisbane, it means divorce.. Hey wait a minute, that's not a bad idea.. tell James I'm in..

TBone · I can handle Semibrieves! Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 20

So.. what do you guys think about the test piece for the nationals????

white stick waver · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

TBone wrote:

So.. what do you guys think about the test piece for the nationals????

Which test piece are you refering to TBONE?

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TBone · I can handle Semibrieves! Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 20

C Grade Test Piece " And the multitude with one voice spoke"

**bensimon** · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

Have you managed to get a recording of it? I'd be interested to hear it!

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TBone · I can handle Semibrieves! Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 20

No i havent, i have site read through it with a B grade band last week and it was ok.

Will take alot of work, its quite difficult, i take pity of the clarinet section!!!!!!!

cliffy · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:06 am Post subject:

TBone wrote:

No i havent, i have site read through it with a B grade band last week and it was ok.

Will take alot of work, its quite difficult, i take pity of the clarinet section!!!!!!!

I'm looking forward to the challenge. Don't know if our clari and flutes players will be though Smile

It also has a mean euph part.

MattL · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

You can find a full length recording of it here.

edited to protect the guilty

Incidentally the open A grade test piece is also on that site. I'm not sure about the other grades.

**bensimon** · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Good old Soundclick! Ive found some great stuff on there!

NB - if you sign up with these guys (and its free!) you can just download them for free. And its legal!

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MattL · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

bensimon wrote:

NB - if you sign up with these guys (and its free!) you can just download them for free. And its legal!

Really? I didn't realise that. Typical, I jump straight to doing the illegal thing before getting all the facts!

**bensimon** · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

LOL...Yeah - but aint it more fun!!!

Am listening to the test piece now. 2 mins into it. Very interesting....

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**bensimon** · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject:

Just listened to the test around 6 times.

I think i like it lol.

It has some very moving parts in it. Very solemn.

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**bensimon** · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

About 5 mins and 20 seconds in, i love the syncopated feeling!

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**bensimon** · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:28 am Post subject:

Be interesting to see how the bands pull this one off.

If im not mistaken, i heard a piano in this recording, and also what sounded like rotor toms or some sort of african drums!

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cliffy · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:35 am Post subject:

bensimon wrote:

Be interesting to see how the bands pull this one off.

If im not mistaken, i heard a piano in this recording, and also what sounded like rotor toms or some sort of african drums!

Yeah it will be a HUGE job for any of the C grade bands to pull this one off. The percussion parts in the score are huge but there are no african drums or rotor toms marked on the score but but you do need extra toms so I think the idea of using something different like the above mentioned makes for a good effect.