I will never forget when my band played this during my Junior Year of high school for district large group contest. My dad was my director and right before the big ending, we locked eyes and we knew at that moment that we played really well and no matter what score we got, we will always have that moment.

A flute screeched towards the beginning, I can't even

I love this song. This is a beautiful masterpiece . My middle schools advanced symphonic band is playing this for the band masters convention in Asheville n.c. this year. We also played this for the convention in Clinton and made straight a's and superiors. Go MWMS Mustangs!!!!

I'm a trumpet player and I loved playing this song in band it was my favorite piece to play ~trumpet player

I remember when we played this for an outdoor concert, but it was freezing cold and windy in the middle of April. APRIL. This was the best song out of the selection that we had.

I love this song. We are playing this for festival. Go saxophones!!!!!

진심으로 찾던 곡...드디어 찾았다ㅠㅠ 나에겐 정말 추억이 많은 곡...벌써 5~6년 만인가..들으면서 소름과 눈물이 난다..

3:35-4:00 is my favorite part in the entire piece. I was 1st bassoon and sat next to a oboe player that played this part beautifully.

Flutes are ruling the world!!! Those 16th notes are my life

Trumpet Section, where you AT!? :)

1:57 I'm a clarinetist, and with all those damn sixteenth notes, I presumed we were a focus. NOPE! All that freneticism is just garnish for the horns. Story of our freaking lives lmao

what I love about this piece is that everyone has something good, in a lot of wind band pieces you will get an amazing part and everyone else will have some mildly interesting bits but on the whole thier part is uninteresting but everyone who comments on here loves thier parts. Ive seen trumpet player comment, a flautist, a clarinet player, a french horn player. I could go on. Reineke writes the most amazing music giving everyone something fun to play which is very rare talent.

When I was in middle school, we played this song. It was by far the most difficult piece I played that year and yet the most fun. I played Tuba and we had to learn how to cycle our breathing for the start.

I love this song so much! So much fun to play, especially the 16th note part. :)

those 16th notes from the flutes sound like the flute part from Sedona, another song by Steven Reineke

OMG the 'clarinet' was HELL and it kill my fingers LOL

I played this back in middle school, in a summer camp with a lot of talented people. Absolutely gorgeous song. I remember when we played our end-of-camp concert, right after we got played the last note there was a mom in the crowd who just said "Wow," perfectly in time with the beat 😂

Our concert band played this song last night at a music festivals and we go excellent on this peace and west river jibble

Enjoyed this tremendously as I am a collector of songs about The River of Life!

We played this every year for graduation. My senior year, I played the snare drum part. It's a fun song to play. One of my favorites we did.

Fellow French horns where you at ;)

already a month into high school concert band and we have been playing this song in rehearsal for that time and I love it never gets old

Sounds like the score to a movie. Like a mix of back to the future and shenandoah.

my band teacher put this on our wind ensemble repertoire, since our winter concert was yesterday. i cant wait to start playing this!!

go flutes!!! we are playing this song!

I've recently discovered this composer and his works. I think he's one of my new favorites. :)

I'm playing this at my middle school and it is one of the hardest pieces of music ever but I love it

bass clarinet part helps make it sound freaking epic XD

Playing this in festival. Really excited.

The freaking tuba part. Have to hold like 10 straight whole notes in the beginning. Obviously I couldn't :)

teacher gave us this song today, soooo excited!!!

its beautiful the sound

Love this song

Played this my 8th grade year... I think I might pull it out and play it again(:

were playing this for our band concert!

I wish they had the sheet music in the video as well.

i have to play this tomorrow for a covid safe band thing and i’m gonna be the only trumpet there. pray for me y’all😅

Can't wait to play this in band tomorrow

This is an enjoyable song.

Love it

we played this in band it was awesome and i got to play the trumpet solo :D

At first, I didn't like this song. I got the music and played through it and thought it was ehh. I mean it was E flat scale over and over in sixteenth notes. Not the most challenging run I've encountered, but as we started playing as a band I really started to enjoy this piece. It has so much dynamic and meaning behind it. Plus, it sounds cool when all the runs are put together with everyone and its fast and clean. Love it!

my school's wind ensemble is just learning this song and it is amazing. I play the clarinet and the sixteenth nothes are pretty tricky but its so cool! :)

This is actually really fun to play on trumpet

This is Midway High School's opener for their 2014 marching band season!

I could listen to this all day, every day.

Euphoniums where you at?

I thought of Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Pokemon and countless of other things from my childhood.

I had the trumpet solo in that piece when our band played it. I never knew why I got first part for that piece only...

Happens to the clarinets too. I should know cause I play clarinet and played this piece two years in a row.

R.I.P at measure 48

My school played this the semester I left to go to another school, I wish I hadn't have missed that semester.

I really wanna play dis

YEAH WOOOOH

Mallet part is epic: I have to switch between five different instruments.

@HUNGERGAMESLOVER15 I played this back in April, but if I remember correctly I played bells (same as glock), chimes, crash cymbals, triangle, and bass drum. It's all about positioning the instruments together and knowing when to move to what instrument.

Trombone part in this is pretty cool, if only the acoustics in my school's auditorium were any good then this would sound professional with us playing it.

There's a ....... TENOR SAX SOLO!!!! My life is complete.

A bar after the trumpet and French horn solo, after the clarinet soli

@anjellio clarinets have it too, i feel glad i took the bass clarinet part for this, the clarinets are practically dying in rehearsals

Can't wait to learn this in band! We get to start really playing it tomorrow! :D P.S. Oboes Rock!

I enjoy this.

indiana jones instantly popped in my head. :D

yay trumpet solo!!

have to play the Bell part (insert gun emoji)

As a mucision who preformed the piece on flute, that was painfully hard to learn

Me bc the flute 16th part is EXACTLY the same as the ones in Sedona, another Reineke piece

i know right? best part

ive played this. that section was probably the hardest to do on flute. WIsh i woulda played it when i switched to oboe

Online District Band. 😀👍

We are playing this

That flute part is from sedona lol!!!!

It kills our oboe too.. .. But she got better.

Can't wait to put a video of the mwms band captains playing this song on here. I play all the instruments but I'll play Bari in the video!!!

In the beginning before the rest of the band comes in

Playing this for my freshmen EOY concert tomorrow, the 16th notes (flute player) are killing me but it's so much fun.

The big Mac band (mac Williams middle school) is playing this

My oboes where ya at??!

i loved this song... some parts sound like pocahontas

good

omg i know i played flute on this piece and my fingers were killing me afterwards!! lol

ER YEHHHH

when is there a tenor sax solo??

I played this for 8th grade LGPE. It was a pain in my butt to play those 16th notes (I’m a oboe)

no picc???

1:40 SOUNDS LIKE A TRUE TRUE FRIEND FROM MY LITTLE PONY KIND OF

Glock timing at the begging is a bitch! I have to do chimes and glock D:

This is sedona remake?

@rPWnzeL there is a coda,

@rPWnzeL What do you mean? They played it.

clarinet runs=epically impossible

We almost played this 8n my 8th grade band... and then my director realized we sucked.

Trombones?

@rPWnzeL What? The coda is there.

I heard a b-flat, after the key change

When your only in 8th grade and you see a hich C :O

Go French Horn Solo!

I’m doing the snare part and it’s annoying

Anyone else find this similar to the robinhood theme song?

i love this song. that sounds amazing but i think the low brass should've played out more before the saxophone played the melody.