During my senior year @ the University of Rochester (spring 1976), I pointed out a discrepancy between Shostakovach's original orchestral score and Dr. Donald Hunsberger's transcription. The discrepancy is at the recapitulation of the fanfare around 5:32. In the original score, Shostakovich writes the bass drum accenting beats 2 and 4 whereas Dr. Hunsberger scores the bass drum on beats 1 and 3. I showed this to my tympani and percussion instructor, Gordon Stout who then advised Eastman Percussion Chairman Dr. John Beck of my "discovery", who then informed fellow faculty member, Dr. Donald Hunsberger, then conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, what one of HIS undergraduate Biology, NON-MUSIC MAJORS "found". Needless to say, the following week, I was summoned to meet with Dr. Hunsberger. To show his appreciation, Dr. John Beck presented me an "A" for the class and 2 pairs of hand-made bamboo handle tympani mallets as graduation present. Never forgot Dr. Beck's kindness to this non-music major ensemble player.

Those clarinets were GETTING IT DONE!

Imagine this being ur quarantine hw

The WTSU band just played for the 16th time at the Texas Music Educators Association in San Antonio. No other university has performed that many times

Bravo University of Michigan Symphony Band for an excellent performance.

I was a euphonium in the 1971 European Tour SB (Revelli's last) and played this many times. It's been a favorite ever since!

Played this in 1980 and took it on our Europe tour. A great show piece.

A piece Shostakovich wrote in ONE day 🤯

Perhaps the gold standard for transcriptions. Well played.

a deserved class for wind bands--fiendiciously difficult (esp. for winds) but great fun at same time.

Our symphonic band in high school is playing this piece. I'm a second chair flute and let me tell you this is SO HARD. Props to this group for playing it so flawlessly.

One of my favorite pieces ever and this was a BRILLIANT performance of it!

Superb rendition of a fun romp. I was lucky enough to play this in the University of Washington Wind Sinfonietta in 1971, under dear Walter Welke. Loved it! Thanks for posting this great performance.

This is breathtaking. The tempo is so fast and the clarinets are flying !!! I played this arrangement my senior year in High School (First Clarinet) and I know how difficult it is. Wow. This is as good any professional performance of this piece that I have every heard.

I am impressed by the richness of the ensemble's sound. Bravo!

love this song 🤩 i play piccolo ❗️

This is the best band performance of this work I've ever heard. Excellent in every way.

Sooo clean! Wonderful 😎👍🏼

As a euphonium player having played this piece, I can say wholeheartedly that the technical and musical aspects coming from the euphonium section in this ensemble were absolutely spectacular. Rehearsal number 8... my god!

Ahh whoever on is piccolo is KILLING it!! So good. I see you on those high C’s

Yes it's live, there are some audible, human mistakes, but that doesn't detract from a fantastic performance. Few collegiate bands can muster this level of execution, and Michigan does it brilliantly.

Excellent, 1st class performance.

I played 1st horn this year for this piece, it was so fun :)

Love this piece and it sounds great but why didn't they focus on the PICCOLO at all?! It literally makes this piece POP! Kudos to the awesome Picc player!!!! :D

This performance is incredible. I've played this transcription a handful of times and have never heard the level of phrasing and musical decision making that was presented in this performance. Bravo.

Excellent performance! Well-balanced, well-interpreted, well-performed and well-conducted!

I'm playing this in my band, then I just decided to look up " hard concert band music" and this was the first result XD

wonderful....nice to see sooooo many woodwinds:)

Brass sounds so full. Wonderful

Wow! Very clean playing with accuracy!! Well done clarinets, saxes, and flutes!!

This piece brings me so much joy :)

I think this is the best version on the net that I've seen/heard in terms of precision, articulation, dynamics. But I noticed - there are two female players in the front row, to the conductor's right, who never play! They sit through the entire performance without playing their instruments. Odd!

yasssss come thru piccolo!! this is played soooo smoothly that it just SEEMS effortless!! bravoooo!!!

4:04 gets me every time. Love this piece

Played this at music camp some time after hearing this being played by them live, makes me love the piece even more :)

Pretty solid performance.

Excellent performance and extraordinary orchestra! Bravissimi!! M.

Is no one gonna talk about the euphonium part tho

4:03 is love

Outstanding!!!

Morris Hills HS concert band played this in 1967 comparable to what is heard here. Was an honor and privilege to perform under Herman L. Dash's baton during my HS years. Also performed Universal Judgement and American Civil War Fantasy.

Love this piece! Well played!

4:04 my favorite moment of the piece!

ouch, that poor trombonist in front of the cymbals

very very impressive!

one of the female players that never plays is an oboe playing friend of mine...i sat in on a rehearsal in which they rehearsed this piece when i auditioned there a couple years ago. they rotate parts and she wasn't assigned to play on this piece.

I don't understand the 1 person who disliked this...why!?

4th trumpet part is sounding good. Many would consider it more challenging than 1st.

Wow! Shostakovich would be proud.

We’re playing this in the wind ensemble at my hs and I love the flute part♥️

Very fun arrangement to play.

Man, I miss playing in concert band.

Bass sax omggg.

Good music

This is too perfect. It has to be a professional recording, mixed and mastered.

This is an excellent performance by an excellent band. I wonder how this same band would sound if they played Nelhybel's "Symphonic Requiem" a tempo? I know a university band that played the requiem a tempo, and the performance was unbelievably fantastic. The band was the West Texas State University Symphonic Band directed by Dr. Garner Garner in 1968.

They have a bass sax!!

damn.

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They have a bass saxophone??!!

Keep practicing and don't give up! :)

I'm buying this lol

Check out the US Marine Band recording on KZfaq.

HOLY SHT HEARING YOUR EUPHONIUMS PLAY THE MELODY IS INSANE OMG, FANBOYING NOW

i am a clarinetist and i am playing this in early may~ this is really fast and the staccato is crazy and the runnings are super duper difficult~

5:12

play it at x1.15 speed and it'll sound like the marine band

That's an interesting way to hold a bass sax!

I'm only in 7th grade, and am preparing this piece on alto sax for junior MYWE seating audition, and it is the hardest thing I have ever tried.

How do y’all think about how the conductor brought out the different tones in the piece?

can you share this score for me?

The first trumpet who cracked the F defines me as a human being.

I think just about every band I've heard has had an issue with the opening.

Which transcription is this? Donald Hunsberger or Charles Boardman Righter? Anyone know?

sounds like a video game if sped up to the max XD

Was Haithcock a student of Dr. Revelli?

BASS TROMBONE

a 1n amigo le dejaron esto de terea jajsjkas.

As are speling two.

Mistakes or no mistakes, The University of Michigan Symphony Band has been brilliantly conducted by Michael Haithcock. Their iconic performance of Star and Stripes forever by John P. Sousa absolutely phenomenal. Much better than Leonard Bernstein's.

I wonder what conductors like Kleiber or Bernstein could do with a group like this.

Isn’t this in the wrong key?

Kubrick should have used this in 2001.

I am 11 years old and I play the 1st tuba :) . It is diffycult for me

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opening trumpets intonation and missed note? english horn and trumpet duet? whoops trumpet. dr rivelli would be on you like a fly on you know what. fine job with little hiccups.

I will build a place to worship my Mom right at my Mom lands

Not bad but the trumpets at the beginning tend to cut off their notes a little too early

I hate how not a single band has the bolls to play in the original key. Im a composer my self, new to the thing, and I compose band pieces In extremely difficult keys like Eb minor, B major, E major, etc, to add to the difficult repertoire, not only for band but for orchestra, but I see too many times an arrangement NOT in its original key. My main instrument is Bb and I’m currently tackling extremely difficult orchestral excerpts, and honestly, all it showed me is that band music will ALWAYS be easy and orchestra music, well, difficult. Like honestly man, it might be hard, but it’s beneficial for the musicians. I don’t mind playing 5 sharps, or 6 flats, I think every musician, yes, even band musicians, not only orchestral ones, should tackle these. Like god damn. Listen to Stravinsky rite of spring or Ravels Daphnis et Chloe. It shames the band repertoire. Shostakovich has some pretty intense and difficult excerpts too, but the point is, dude, just write it in A major, original key, to give the musicians MORE of what they want to achieve. Besides that, good performance.

A very good college band. But the conductor wins no praise for precision and clarity of beat.

It really sucks that apparently two players weren't deemed worthy enough to play this piece, and they had to endure the performance sitting in the first row right under the oblivious conductor. Totally blows, U of M.

Tsk tsk tsk... Two Ohio State fans that don't appreciate music.