Magnificent Seven

[Tubaru]

Played this with my community orchestra a few years ago. Great piece and a really fun tuba part. It really should be played more.

[windshieldbug]

Player it once for a music director who was enthusiastic about Elmer Bernstein's movie music.
Great part and good fun as I recall.

[Matt Good]

I have played this on many occasions and once with the composer before he passed. It's a fun piece and I look forward to playing it every time it appears in a folder.

-Matt

[Mark]

I've played it too. It is a fun piece. Another Elmer Bernstein work I have always wanted to play, but sadly haven't, is the march from The Great Escape.

[GC]

There's an excellent brass band arrangement. We played it a couple of years ago.

[ger]

The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a remake of the Seven Samurai. I I've been looking for a score of the music of that movie for a while but without success. Fumio Hayasaka was the composer.... Anyone?

[hup_d_dup]

There's an excellent brass band arrangement. We played it a couple of years ago.

Was this the Scott Richards arrangement? Yes, that is excellent and it has several themes that are always left out of the concert band arrangements. It was by playing this that I became aware that, as Bloke has pointed out, the full movie score has a lot of good music.

In fact, the movie sound track has terrific music that even the brass band arrangement doesn't have. It deserves to be made into a full suite.

Hup

[alfredr]

What is a TV cigarette commercial? They have been off the air for about 45 years.

Make music, not cigarettes.

[barry grrr-ero]

A couple of other good ones:

"The Big Country"
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"How The West Was Won"
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[Steve Marcus]

written by Elmer Bernstein...the full movie theme...Even the tuba part is three pages long, and very busy. There are a few little tuba solos, quite a few soli, and some shifting meter points hinge on the tuba "driving the bus".

I've played the original as bloke describes. This weekend, however, the Roy Phillippe arrangement is in the orchestra folder. As bloke says, it's missing some interesting elements of the original.

[barry grrr-ero]

. . . depends on what comes next.

[alfredr]

We're all gonna die!

[ken k]

one of my faves. Did it with the Reading Pops two summers ago.

We also did a western theme for our marching band show and I arranged it for our band. killer opener, (one of the best we ever did, if I must say so myself).

The HS band director has also done the concert band version with the band over the years. lots of fun, fun movie too!
kk

[Tubaryan12]

Cleveland Orchestra is playing it this year for the 4th of July concerts.

[ralphbsz]

We did this a couple of years ago, with a community band. My son played tuba, I played xylophone. One of my most fond memories of pops concerts.