A friendly reminder to all who criticized and found errors in this performance, this is a HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA. This was a fantastic performance and those young musicians should be proud of it. As for the conductor, great job!!!!!

It's a rainy Friday, 13th August 2021 in Curitiba, Brasil. I am Just an old but proud retired teacher, drinking Bockbier, cooking beans, waiting my Sauerkraut get ready and hearing this Rossini's piece for the thousandth time and loving the way this Young orchestra does It. People, I really love you, because you are here looking for beauty. You played and heared classical music looking for beauty, but beauty even was inside you. I ask to God protection and happyness for you who love make music. Time is running, baby, and you doesn't know tomorrow, so love yourself, love your life and be thanksgiver for life, because life is a gift and I am happy because you exist, Thanks, Lord, for people so Nice making nice music.

Those young people should be very proud of themselves. They were great.

Having been born in 1938 I was just the right age to listen to The Lone Ranger radio program EVERY Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening. Radio, back then was a rich experience.

I would never have guessed that this performance was anything but professionally done!!!! Well done!!!!!!!!

CANNOT DO IT PERFECT THE FIRST TIME, THIS IS AN ORCHESTRA IN PROGRESS. Young people, kuddos!

This was perfection.

When you hear it from the very start you appreciate it even more.

I find it hard to believe this is high school. cause there THAT good. eait, what was I thinking? THERE AMAZING! LOVED IT

Wherever Rossini is, he will be proud of these guys. Bravo!

This performance is well beyond any high school performance I've ever heard before - absolutely incredible!

Section 1: Prelude/ Dawn 0:00-2:51 Section 2: Storm 2:51-5:53 Section 3: Ranz des vaches/Call To The Cows 5:53-8:26 Section 4: March of the Swiss Soldiers/Finale 8:26-11:45

MAGNIFICENT !!!!! STANDING OVATION !!!!! AND THESE ARE JUST KIDS !!!!!! BRAVO !!!!!!

This is great music. I am so happy to see these young people so talented and enjoying playing this kind of music. God bless them.

Glad to see we still have an orchestra. Nice job, Vikings. - Class of 1990.

Jumped straight out of my easy chair and proceed to applaud as loud as I could.......Bravo !

never have i seen such focus and concentration on the face of a percussionist handling a triangle!

Classic music is life, it pushes us forward and we do have our ups and downs but really we are looking for the best. Love form Russian!!!!

The guy at the end whispering “yess” 😂 I would too say yes if I could hear this live haha. This piece is so powerful! Love it.

Watched this video years ago, then went to Dvorak’s 9th symphony at the New York Phil earlier today. I knew I recognized the English horn playing the 2nd movement... and after a bit of thought, I knew where I saw him. Here he is! Ryan Roberts is now an oboist at the New York Philharmonic.

I love that cello section solo in beginning! Bravo!

5 solo celli. Wow. Favourite!

saturday morning cartoon nostalgia overload loved the performance I wouldn't have thought this was only a high school orchestra

This is the sheer joy and cumulative effect that music can have on education and living a life of quality. Community, social cooperation, and having fun...unfortunately public education has been the whipping boy for politicians and a music curriculum just one of the casualities!

I am studying this piece for IGCSE Music this year. It is a hard piece to learn let alone play. That was an amazing performance. I was so surprised at the fact that they were high schoolers! They sounded like a professional orchestra. Wow! I bet everyone practices 40 hours a day to get this piece. Congrats to the solo instruments in their respective movements. The whole orchestra deserve way more applause and cheers than they did in this video. This was an utterly amazing performance, a big well done.

If this is a high school orchestra, I am impressed.

@5:54 - ...when you realize you first heard this in WB cartoons!

I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I GOT CHILLS IN MY SPINE FROM BEAUTIFUL MUSIC! I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE DO SUCH AN AMAZING JOB (PLEASE FORGIVE THE PROUD MOMS & DADS TAKING A FEW PHOTOS) I THINK THEY NAILED IT. IT TOOK ME BACK, WE DID WAGNER'S TANNHAUSER OVERTURE AT PLEASANT HILL HIGH, Ca. (closed) 68/69 YEAR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK! (I USE CAPS FOR MY VISION, SORRY)

One of the best renditions I have heard.

Amazine...can't believe those are OUR students and performing in Vienna!! Bravo :)

It takes a lot to make me tear up. You gize were successful!! Beautiful

08:27 🐴🐴

This is wonderful playing by the Santa Monica High School Orchestra! Tremendous and well done! I am British and I tend to doubt that this standard could be attained by a UK high school orchestra; I may be quite wrong, but that is my feeling. William Tell is probably the best of all Rossini overtures; an overture with not only 1-2 good tunes but 3-4 of them! I think Rossini would be knocked out if he heard this.

THEY WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL?! That's amazing, such great talent.

11:43 - conductor whispers "yes!"; i.e. We just nailed that performance.

Awesome , just Totally Awesome !!!!!!!!

My first time hearing the full version. The best of Rossini’s overtures in my opinion (but I have not heard them all yet)

Very impresive... Salute

God bless all you young, talented people for sharing your musical skills and appreciation of GOOD music! This brought tears to my eyes, not because of the memories it brought forth but because I see there is still hope for the preservation of fine music and musical presentation!

Excellent Standard for a High School orchestra. Clearly plenty of talent

Genius who wrote it! Genius to play it and genius to conduct it!

What a group of young and talented musicians , well done!

i played this piece before in school orchestra. Amazing performance from them!

189 thumbs down? I didn't realize there were that many people with such a low appreciation of talent. Amazing talent!

Fantastic performance. And kudos to the videographer and editor. Finally I get to see what I have never seen in any other orchestra video: the ENTIRE ORCHESTRA performing, especially during the most dramatic portions of the piece. It is so enjoyable to see (for more than an obligatory 1 second shot) what is actually making the music we are hearing. It is a thing of beauty, not just for the ears, but for the eyes as well when we get to see the poetic beauty in the motion of the orchestra--which we can only observe when we get to see the ENTIRE orchestra. This is by far the best videography of an orchestra I have see so far, and I have seen many. Thank you!

you can't teach that - it's a gift from God

OMG this was a high school orchestra??? Wow, they were amazing!!! 🙂🙂🙂

Bless my soul. A bowl of cheerios and my wool blanket. Sitting on the register with my brother, watching the Lone Ranger on a cold winter Saturday morning. Never lost our enthusiasm for classical music.

Awesome performance - BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO.

I would be loudly applauding, that was brilliant!

As a looney tunes fan, my heart melt when i heard this

I am elated that so many young people are interested in classical music! An excellent performance too. If there were any flaws, I didn't hear them. Bravo!

My high school had this as school bell

Magnífica interpretación de la célebre Obertura de Guillermo Tell del compositor italiano Gioachino Rossini. BRAVO !!!. Saludos desde España.

Outstanding performance. Bravíssimo!!!!

I was impressed and then I read their a High School orchestra and WOW WOW they have to be so proud. Bravissimo young people. This is one of my favorite pieces and you younglings were 😍

A firey Horse with the speed of light. A cloud of dust, and a mighty Hi Yo Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.

First heard this on a Bug's Bunny cartoon. Who says cartoons aren't educational? These younguns done a good job with it.

absolutely brilliant.

A masterpiece!

Que lindo, que emocionante, que sensacional!

Amazing job- wow!

I remember playing this when I was ten - so much fun! This is a great version.

I first fell in love with it as I listened to the Lone Ranger on the radio ! I too, used to speak the introductory words with the announcer Mr. Striker ( I think ) as the show began . I was very poor and living in a rural black ghetto in Central Texas . We had very little joy except the escapism of radio . Of course, those were the days before television . The days of Fibber McGee and Molly , After school Pottia Faces Life , Young Doctor Malone … and on and on and on . Then came TV ! Those were the days of Mr. and Mrs. North and I Married Joan . Remember??

5:54 - My Favorite Part of all. It's so relax! Congratulations!!!

Holy moment. This is amazing to watch. The piece is one of the all time beautiful and emotional compositions. This orchestra does an amazing rendition and a joy to watch.

I come here about once a week for this lovely performance. Only 31 but it always takes me back to watching bugs bunny...

Many thanks for all.

I applaud each of you! My life is better because I heard you perform! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your gifts!

Such delicacy and contrasting verse. Great performance from them all. Stunning student work-sooo top notch professional a,ready!:-)

5:54 my favorite morning song

Bravo! Hard to believe this is a high school orchestra.

Thanks for adding a tuba to the performance!😊

One of my top favorite symphonies!

this is freaking awesome!

Great powerful performance, I love it!! FOREVER captured in youtube (as long as youtube is around), I can watch when I feel like it

Still my favorite version of this.

Considering when the composer lived (29 February 1792 - 13 November 1868) It has and will stand the test of time. I O Silver...Away!!! The Lone Ranger Rides Again!

Such a perfect rendition of this ouverture

In a single word........FANTASTIC!

Well done.

this is amazing guys, I recommend you listen to

this is amazing guys, I recommend you listen

Bravo! I loved the flautist and the oboist trading lines.

I absolutely L-O-V-E this!!!♥♥♥

This was absolutely amazing!! Well done!

A fiery horse with a speed of light. A cloud of dust, and a mighty Hi Yo Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.

Brilliant performance! Thank you!

sólo un genio puede crear tan magnífica obra musical.

Since this piece is made up of 4 sections, here are their selective playing times this video, beginning to end (listed in this order): 0:00 - 2:49 Sunrise Over The Alps/Prelude - Dawn 2:50 - 5:54 The Storm (climax 3:56) 5:55 - 8:26 Shepherds on the Mountainside/Call to the Cows 8:27 - 11:43 The Cavalry Charge/March of the Swiss Soldiers For those of you who like to hear each part individually :))

stupendous

I must have watched this 30 times, absolutely brilliant, well done.

It's glorious to see a woman conducting.

omg...high school kids! marvelous!

When I was in Junior High school, my orchestra teacher told us, if we ever called the William Tell Overture “the theme of the Lone Ranger” he would flunk us

amazingly played and recorded. thanks !

strong confident playing by English horn

That was absolutely magnificent

For those of us of a certain age, it is extremely difficult to remove The Lone Ranger from this piece. Once you do, however, it becomes a brilliant piece of music.

It is always the conductor that has the most fun, sometimes the soloist too.