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03-02-2006, 02:08 PM
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Al the Vykker
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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.
We played that song in Symphonic Band two years ago!!! Loved it seriously good times playing that allrighty I'll get some of those files ready for the downloading. I'll get last year's compiliation CD of our top Jazz Band on there since we dont have our 05-06 out yet of course lol.
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