It really does feel like a journey through a blizzard

This year my band is doing this song, literally it gets stuck in my head and I listen to it all the time and I legit get chills every time it never gets old

fricken timpani solo gets me every time

I'm playing this in my symphonic band. I love the change of how it sounds at the allegro

This was written so well

2:42 my favorite part, low brass sound so freaked cool blasting those notes in person. Love playing at that part!

2:11 is my favorite I’m playing this for my UIL this year and I’m a tuba it sounds great in person

Fav part is 0:00-3:48

French horn player right here, in 8th grade and we sound amazing... amazing song

This song depicts a foggy, eerie drift into the arctic land at the poles on your boat, after arriving at the cold frozen land and explore for a little bit, the ground begins to shake and you notice snow hurtling towards you full speed. You take off sprinting towards your boat. You look behind you and notice the dense snow in the distance still floating to the ground. It's deadly, but in a way beautiful.

I play the trumpet for this song. It gives me chills every time I play it with the entire wind ensemble.

If there was a longer version of this song I think it would be an excellent marching piece for UIL

French horn here, and even though you can't really hear us, we have a really cool part. Played this in middle school and it was pretty fun

When I'm listening/playing this song I imagine a father In a snowy cabin in middle of a forest with this Ill daughter. The icy storm is circling around their little home. But they are out of medicine and if she doesn't get more soon she will perish. (This next part starts 1:45) forcing the father to push through the blizzards and the snow to save his daughter before time runs out. At 3:10 - 3:19 he grows tired and weary but he reflects on his daughter and how much he cares for her and that gives him more strength and courage to push through the harsh cold winter to save her life

i’m playing as second clarinet for the UIL comp!!! wish me luck!!

this piece was written for the district 7 msboa middle school honors band and i was in it :))😩

UGH I MISS BAND SO MUCH. this was one of our best songs at ULI🥺🥺!!

I love this song! My symphonic band played it last year my sophomore year. Ever since we played it I always listen to it on youtube all the time.

I am playing this song with my band this year. I always love muting the audio in a charging scene from a movie and playing this song over! Purely epic!!

just played this at the band and it is my favorite song we performed, was chimes

That twist tho!!😍😍🤑🤑🤑

I'm playing this at my All Region Concert. 1st Clarinet

I could listen to this all day and never get bored.

This deserves to be the opener for a movie

My band is playing this piece and I'm the Tuba player. We sound superb.

played this at all region we did ok

Our band is performing this

When we played this I absolutely hated it with every bone in my body but now I’m listening to again and I seriously have no idea why I hated it!! It absolutely takes my breath away.

Brian Balmages is a friend of my band teacher and I'm so glad since this is amazing music!

Playing this soon in varsity band as a flute. Real excited!

As someone playing the timpani part in this song, I can confirm this is awesome.

3:12 god that French horn and baritone part is so beautiful

2:16 is my fav the low brass is just 😍😍😍

Playing this in my symphonic band First french horn

I’m so glad we have this

Playing this as a bari sax

Brian balmages is one of my favorite composers

playing this with my band in wind ensamble for our winter and it is an amazing piece!

Head mallet percussionist right here and I love this song so much! Going to be playing this in band, and wow its beautiful as it starts and just gets better and better!

I was so exited to play this for my spring concert but it got cancelled. Thanks Corona :(

Brian Balmages is awesome! This is one of my favorites but I've played other songs by him and they are all fantastic. Just the right level of challenge, and all musically great!

Played this on snare and low toms, sounds amazing!!

played this last year first alto

balmages never fails to disappoint with timpani parts - this is such a beautiful & fun piece to play

i played this song last year for sprig concert and its one of my favorite songs to this day

I’m playing it this year and I’m so excited

It makes me tingle😍

i played this in my honors/ varsity band when i was in middle school and i miss it so much

Every time it hits 3:09 that part gives me the chills all the time and its soooo emotional and soooo calming. Great song. Finna play this in the UIL this year in March

What a treat to play this song

Performed this 7 years ago in middle school and I still get it stuck in my head sometimes

This song is soo fun to play Ugh . I’m a Freshman. Trumpetss 💖🎺

I’m so grateful to have played this piece in 7th grade . Now I’m a junior in high school and drum major 🗣 Yall have fun newbies !!

Bruh, I need to play this in my band for school. I have to admit, I play the Trombone, and it's one of my favorite parts I've ever had. So much fun going up and down with the booming yet gentle notes that sound like they could be in an Indiana Jones film

1 of my favorite songs my band Kemp high school band has played

Where my 1 trumpets at 🎺 🎺 🎺

just played this song at UIL. it was an amazing song

1:48 is easily my favorite part, I'm a trombone and that melody is so fun to play

I Love songs!

This guy should try to get to the stars its a hard song but it sounds cool

I’m playing this and I’m getting to meet Brian Balmages and I’m so excited

I love the brass choir behind the woodwinds playing eighth notes

Ah! The horn in this gets me everytime :))

I’m happy that I’m playing this for my band

Nice I’m playing this right now in concert band, I’m playing 1st trumpet.

this is so good

i’m in wind ensemble and i loveeeee this song

I'm a tuba and played this for a winter concert (8th grader) i loved playing it

Playing this on bassoon is so fun. i wish i could play it again

I played bass clarinet for the first time ever to this piece and let me tell you it did not disappoint for the first time ever playing a low instrument

I play timp for this song, love it.

I played this in 7th and i was on first part clarinet, I MISS PLAYING THIS SO MUCH

TIMPANI SOLO BABY!

I'm in 8th grade with a grade 7-12 band, and my band teacher says we might not do it for this winter concert, he said that this is easy and that we could do it, we just need to focus on it more, and we are getting very good at it now.

My band is doing this song this year and I have the timpani solo!!! First solo in 3 years of band ❤❤❤

I played this great piece for Texas UIL Band. I played the bari sax on it. Such a fun song. I regret my decision of playing the tuba instead of the bari sax. Great times. We got a Division 1 on sightreading, and all 3 concert pieces.

AHHH!! i have uil today on this song! wish us luck!! i’ll try to update on this comment to tell what place we got! UPDATE: we got sweepstakes!!!! we got a 1 on stage and 1 in sight reading!! 💖💖💖🤠

This song is some pretty good stuff. Playing it this year for spring concert and competition, though it’s not quite fun with the marimba part of a marimba/vibes part for the piece. 8 measures followed by the timpani solo, resting the entire rest of the time while vibes player does their thing

I got vibraphone and marimba for this song. This song is so good.

Playing this song as the only clarinet in my section... no pressure 😓

playing this as a tuba this year!!

2:43 is the best low voice part

1:35 is my fave part

I think the 9 dislikes on this come from the channel name

I remember playing this second band in middle school

Play this now for my high school band

you guys should go watch his other vids, their actually very funny in an ironic way

French horn and I this is my favorite part that I play 3:24 to the end, I remember we our face was tired from the other two pieces we played at uil and I could barely hit the high note

1st trumpet, ending high school concert band with a bang!

this song is gas

Omg love thins song any precussion6

Yooooooo , first clarinet

Played this last year symphonic band french horn

I’m gonna play this for UIL. The flutes and I were all gasping for air after the epic timpani part… ;-;

This is the only piece that i enjoy as a trombone player

I'm playing it in my 2nd year jh. Symphonic band

I love this song we are playing it for a competition with Normand Beach by Edmondson. We are a middle school symphonic band only!

3:11 the euphonium part sounds like bohemian Rhapsody

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This Year my school Band is doing this song and we are having Brian Balmages come in on Thursday of next week so my director has had us work on it all week so far/