Songs/Pieces You Never Want to Play Again (Unless Required).

[UDELBR]

Dvorak's "New World" symphony.

[KevinBock]

Hartley, Suite for unaccompanied tuba. I mean who really likes that p.o.s.?

[Gorilla Tuba]

Hartley, Suite for unaccompanied tuba. I mean who really likes that p.o.s.?

I do.

[Steve Marcus]

Songs/Pieces You Never Want to Play Again

Pachelbel Canon. Same 8 notes (actually only 6 different pitches) repeated over, and over, and over, and over...

(Unless Required)

Regardless of the questionable taste of the bride and groom, I'll happily take the wedding gig, thank you.

[Rick Denney]

Pachelbel Canon. Same 8 notes (actually only 6 different pitches) repeated over, and over, and over, and over...

Heard at a recent brass quintet rehearsal: "If I'm going to play the same two bars 172 times, I get to set the damn tempo!"

Rick "noting sadly that the others mistook it for a joke" Denney

[Doug@GT]

I've never played it myself, but I could die happy never hearing Larry Daehn's "As Summer was Just Beginning" ever again.

I don't think there's been a band festival in Georgia since my freshman year of high school where that piece wasn't performed.

I'm sick of it.

Heard at a recent brass quintet rehearsal: "If I'm going to play the same two bars 172 times, I get to set the damn tempo!"

Been there, done that.

Doug "could gladly play Holst's 2nd Suite over and over and over and over and overand over and over..., however"

[Joe Baker]

Pomp & Circumstance
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Joe Baker, who quit a brass choir he otherwise REALLY liked because of their standing annual gig playing at a local college commencement.

[Captain Sousie]

Pomp and Circumstance
Walz for Mippy III
The Beer Song
Cowboy Joe (University of Wyoming school song)
U of Wyo Fight Song
Come On Wyoming
anything Hindemith especially the Sonata in Bb for band
Pachebel Canon in D

That's it for now,
Sousie

[Dylan King]

The Real Slim Shady

[tubatooter1940]

1.Margaritaville
2.Cheeseburger in paradise
3.American Pie
4.Freebird

[Dan Schultz]

Ein Prosit
Wild Irish Rose (might be ok if arrangement wasn't so crappy!)
Auf Wedersein (ditto)

[funkcicle]

'Chester' chorale.

Really? Is that the one from New England Tryptich? (it's been a few years)


I absolutely adored that suite.. did it twice for wind band and once with strings.. some of the most amazing music to which I've ever had the pleasure of contributing.

[UDELBR]

Ein Prosit
Wild Irish Rose (might be ok if arrangement wasn't so crappy!)
Auf Wedersein (ditto)

Ew. Just remembered: "Edelweiss"

[funkcicle]

If you're lucky you'll get to play the whole suite one day(3 movements that are also common standalone works... Chester, When Jesus Wept, and hopefully somebody can remind me of the other and what order they're in ). Not overly technically challenging, but it is probably THE most challenging work I've ever had to play as part of an ensemble..and the most fulfilling!

Maybe im talking about an arranged Chester chorale.. its in a warm up book my band(s) use.

its like less then 20 measures.. its so annoying. and no clarinets or trumpets seem to understand the idea of 'holding the note to its full length' or the theory of 'tongueing' (sp?)

[Steve Marcus]

Chester, When Jesus Wept, and hopefully somebody can remind me of the other

Be Glad Then, America

[Matt G]

Chester, When Jesus Wept, and hopefully somebody can remind me of the other

Be Glad Then, America

All three some of the finest "Tone Poems", IMO, written for wind ensemble.

I got to play these three once at an intercollegiate band in FL and it was a fantastic experience. What great music.

Stuff I can do without:

The Disney All-American College Band "Party Medley"

Brass Machine

Most, if not all, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, et al. Great orchestra stuff that seems to have been transcribed for "Military Band" between WWI and WWII and shortly after. You know, the stuff all the community bands play when they want to be "sophisticated" .

[MikeMason]

ok, i'm not too embarassed to add Bydlo to the list. scary...

[Alex F]

Matthew Gilchrest wrote

Most, if not all, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, et al. Great orchestra stuff that seems to have been transcribed for "Military Band" between WWI and WWII and shortly after. You know, the stuff all the community bands play when they want to be "sophisticated" .

Is your issue with the music itself or with the arrangements. I can't speak to the arrangements. As to playing this music, however, the great bands of the nineteenth century always featured these works as an integral part of their concerts. Many moons ago, I worked for the Chicago Historical Society and had the great pleasure of organizing the collection of a former Sousa Band (original) member - Ashamedly, I can't recall the name at the moment). I had the chance to review hundreds of old band programs going back to the late 1800s. These programs always had about one third of the program devoted to the works of the masters. For most Americans, it was their only exposure to this genre of music and they ate it up.

[Will]

The bad experiences in my career have been only in marching band:

Blue's Clues (we actually played it in the stands, and were booed afterward)

Stairway to Heaven (LOVE THE SONG! but it just wasn't meant to be for a 30-piece marching band playing for the homecoming court)

[Matt G]

Is your issue with the music itself or with the arrangements. I can't speak to the arrangements.

The arrangements. Many of the arrangements are fairly bad, especially upon viewing and playing of the tuba part.

Furthermore, the woodwind parts are often difficult and very exposed. It seems as if the arranger essentially took a violin part and transcribed it for clarinet and did nothing to alleviat the fact that wind players need to breathe.

The music is great, it is just that I can live without hearing it or playing it in the many community bands that try to play this stuff when there is so much good literature for wind band available.