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03-01-2006, 02:34 PM
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Use this site to host your files. It seemed to work for me. Just don't lose the link they give you, because I don't think there's any other way to retrieve the files.

Also! Is anyone here familiar with the Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion? It's a lot more fun to perform and/or see performed than to hear, but I've linked our band's recording anyway. We did it three years ago. It's supposed to be a fun piece, lots of strange things. At one point the clarinet section had to gargle water at a certain pitch, for one movement everyone played on only their mouthpieces, etc. And over the years, Macrina - the band director - had added things that our band would do. Feathers flying, bandos swaying in wide circles, a cowboy running across the stage (our cowboy was about 6 and a half feet tall, black, and usually silent), the trumpet section did the wave, and some other stuff I'm sure I forgot. The song is just under 11 minutes long. The percussionists, despite the overly silly sound effects, were to have overly serious faces.
Note on the third movement: you'll hear a clumsily executed drum roll. Several trumpets hold up signs with 2s and 3s on it. A second drum roll: 7s and 8s. A third drum roll: 8s and 9s. A fourth, also clumsy but more enthusiastic drum roll, and at the cymbal crash he knocks his competitors off the risers. He gets 3 10s.
There is a section where the first five alto saxophones come out, and it looks like they're going to have a great big thing on their own, and they all blow a single terrible note an go sit down.
Okay. Enjoy. It wasn't the best band we've had, but I thought I'd share it with you guys.

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