That’s how you know they were doing rite of spring right, when non musicians have not a clue who’s playing what

Where is the video of their final rehearsal?

I am?

@@TeamVortex47 Jerry!

Jerry grace ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

dude you're awesome you looked so happy during the procession of sage too!!

Nope. From memory. He has a true passion for this piece.

Kevin Noe conducted this from memory with the UT Symphony at TMEA back in the early 2000s. Hes known it like the back of his hand for a long time.

When the All State Symphony did Shostakovich 10 several years ago the horns were incredible. To be fair, Texas always has great horn sections. This year was no exception. Fantastic performance for only having 3 days to rehearse.

i’ve never been happier to be a texas horn

Marky Ochoa except that Eb clarinet player was rough....

NYSSMA comes close sometimes but this is better

Wait which state is this?

@@lucashoffses9019 This recording is Texas NYSSMA is New York

@@lucashoffses9019 WHAT THE WHAT HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT STATE THIS ISSSSS 😂😂😂

Hahahaha as if we actually did

Lol try being viola in any other piece

@@TiagoNugentComposer amen

Joke’s on you, we all just watched the concertmaster cue

Of course I'd find u in this vid smh

Jason Tran who are you?

There are no harps in this piece

Or piano for that matter

Iowa couldn’t do Rite, but it is still a dang good all state for... Iowa. When I was in orchestra we did An American in Paris and Mahler 1!

the part where he walked out on us was gold

Better than Alpine?

@@chloeyang8660 An Alpine Symphony was equally amazing as The Rite of Spring. Both pieces are super fun to play and listen to, but it's more impressive to say "I played The Rite of Spring in high school" than it is with An Alpine Symphony since the Sacre is more prestigious. Who could forget its unforgiving devilishly difficult rhythm?? But mastering it and performing it, just the satisfaction and overall sense of accomplishment from performing Millennium Canons and The Sacre and saying "We just did that," is so rewarding, even more so since we did it as high schoolers. Thanks to everyone who made these recordings possible, including our inspiring conductors! But you're right, nothing will ever come close to our Alpine or Sacre recordings! Thanks Jung-Ho Pak and Kevin Noe

@@chloeyang8660 never

I loved his reaction when he walked in and we were playing the dance without him lol

Not really the attitude to have about music education. Definitely Texas produces some amazing quality, but no other state is horrible at their All State level. Florida, Michigan, Indiana, California, Nevada all produce great All State ensembles. Obviously this is a phenomenal performance, but that competitive attitude is super toxic to the arts.

@@PlushChronicles I agree. Im from Illinois and the music program here builds amazing musicians and has in wind bands, orchestras, jazz, etc for decades. Our All State groups are amazing as well as most states. Texas bands are actually viewed as a negative stereotype here. When you call something a texas band, you are referring to having many many players with not enough dynamic contrast, with great technical ability, but lacking emotion in the music. I feel that might not be exactly true, but the point is all places around the country have their strengths and weaknesses and Texas bands are not all without fault.

IBTwist we da best😎

@@ddgvb6159 thanks for the input, freshman.

IBTwist close, almost hit the nail on the head

I think that's @Andres Ayerbe in the bottom left but I could be totally wrong

hahahha IM RLLY EXTRA omg

Oregon who? JK

Thanks, I try my best

6 horn parts?

@@obinnanwakwue5735 there's 8 horn parts in rite of spring but there was 9 of us in the section

@@runik9488 8?! How do they even score for that many parts?

They sound insane

bass clarinets have the thiccest sound in the orchestra

Red didn’t you say you were auditioning on alto a couple months back?

@@mchenrymaney262 Yeah i made second at area and didn't advance. I'm auditioning on bass this year though and think i have shot at making state

Red what area?

I have a couple on my channel and other people put up there own recordings.. they're out there.

I never noticed that😅

LOL

Yep rip for him

Correct on the conductor... But this is the official audio recording dubbed over video... So are you saying the symphony itself is sub standard?

absolutely not. listen to the bbc proms Holzt Planets w Edward Gardner. THAT is excellent audio

Oh man these high schoolers dont have the same audio set up as the BBC proms imagine

@@rowkingsbury945 😂

It's on Marky's channel now

Glad you found them.

Oh hell yea, this orchestra is some of the best musicians possibly in the nation. All of these kids are prodigies...you cant make it into symphony orch if you arent. Im a pretty darn talented cellist yet Im not sure ill make it into even the lowest orchestra. Then again for cello its insane competition.

@@nickdavis965 haha I’m pretty sure they’re not all prodigies, but they’re definitely insanely talented

@@nickdavis965i promise I wasn’t a prodigy 😂 not even close

Well, it's kind of complicated. It is the whole state, but the performing groups are broken up into sections, and the audition process is also broken up into sections. When you first audition it's within your region (lets say 50 mile radius), and then a cut advances to a bigger audition region, and another cut advances to all-state. The evening before the convention starts you undergo another 3 auditions to determine your state chair. From there you have your choice of Symphony, Philharmonic, Symphonic band, Sinfonietta, Concert band. But there are also 2 path-ways to state depending on how big your school district is. If you belong to a smaller school district you can opt to audition the "5A" route, for which there are a couple "5A" all-state groups, but you can't join the "6A" groups unless you audition through that pathway. That sounds convoluted lol.

Dm me on Twitter :) same username

@@markyochoa my Twitter isn’t working for some reason. Any other app or way?

wait actually me too !

@@a.t3132 I put my email on my channel

V15_ first chair trumpet was given a piccolo trumpet, we were told to bring one to be prepared so he and a few of us did but they still provided one. Others, I don’t know.

The fourth flute in the symphony got to play Alto

If you make all-state orchestra (doesn't matter what state), the clarinetist is expected to have the A clarinet with them because there are times when the music asks them to switch between the Bb/A.

😂😂😂

no.

Not exactly. I have permission to have just this one up.

@@markyochoa Haha how did you get that? Almost all of the TMEA videos got DMCA'd on KZfaq? I had one up for 6 years before they came and took it down!

lmao

It's an all-state group. The groups are larger than normal. You should see the symphonic band.

bro we played way too loud but it was so much fun lmao

@@danemagruder yea but sounds great. I still have PTSD from that being the final cut

Dylan Le ah good memories. all of our chops were fried and there were only like 3 people who could play it haha

Dylan Le funny seeing you in these comments lol

@@brandonbenson2740 ayy wassup

This one is actually going to stay up forever.

ROFL

HAHAHA

Must’ve been a conspiracy 😂😂😂

2nd bassoon

But..... I'm Hispanic lol (5th horn)

The English Horn player is of color.

It’s an anonymous audition I think, I don’t think it’s bc the judges are racist lol