DeanInChicago Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Too much syrup in your Noel notes? May I please recommend these holiday gems: South Park's Mr Hankey's Christmas Album RuPaul John Waters Karen Carpenter Disco Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Rott Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) Rather unlikely, since Lauridsen's version was composed in 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Lauridsen This is the one the Bucs played...same title different composer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1qj4gl3mIs Edited December 19, 2014 by G-Rott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) Marilyn, I share your sentiments totally but wish to correct some historical memories. The Garfield Cadets were the first to play O Sacred Head a la Jim Prime and Donnie Van Doren. They played it for warm-up for the several seasons that the dynamic brass duo worked there before Bill Cook hired them away to Bloomington; there they continued with the tools and methods which brought success in DCI whether in NJ or Indiana. While Star definitely played on better and newer instruments, and Jim Prime had tweeked just a note here and there between the East and Indiana, the reaction of all who heard what was being played was as affective and moving as you experienced and as J.S. Bach presented it in his St. Matthew's Passion. When Michael Klesch, who knows something about church organs and organic sound, replaced his mentor Jim Prime at Garfield, Michael eased off the piece as a warm-up out of respect for his friend and said so to the horn arc. The season Regiment played Ave Maria, I was friendly with one of their Buick players whose Dad had also marched early Regiment. Seeing the corps on the field for my first time that season, I was kidded by the young man to have my box of hankies ready and a spare. I certainly used them to wipe my eyes when I heard them live but had to share the spare when the Dad replayed the tape of the show for the heir. It too is a very beautiful piece and certainly befitting their holy family plus phamily. Edited December 19, 2014 by xandandl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironlips Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) Actually, the original composer of O Magnum Mysterium was a Medieval nun, mystic and polymath, Hildegard of Bingen. It's been around since the 11th Century or so, adapted countless times, including the well-known Gabrielli version, created about 500 years later. The piece is about as "Public Domain" as it gets, I believe. This means that arrangements of it can be copyright protected, but nothing prevents someone from creating still another one. What would require permission is the use of a pre-existing version. Edited December 21, 2014 by ironlips 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsubone Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 He allowed H Robert Reynolds to score an arrangement for concert band and there's also one for brass band. And that version was put on at the Midwest Clinic last week, and was absolutely beautiful. Amazing what a top group and conductor can do. Reynolds barely conducted at all, just let the musicians do the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brichtimp Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 And that version was put on at the Midwest Clinic last week, and was absolutely beautiful. Amazing what a top group and conductor can do. Reynolds barely conducted at all, just let the musicians do the work. A little aside here...H Robert Reynolds was my college band director way back in the day at Cal State Long Beach, and in addition to being a fantastic conductor, even as a young pup, he also arranged the last movement of Mahler 2 for symphonic band and choir...really cool to perform that arrangement. Any opportunity to watch Reynolds rehearse a group was a master class in musicianship :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildabeast Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 And that version was put on at the Midwest Clinic last week, and was absolutely beautiful. Amazing what a top group and conductor can do. Reynolds barely conducted at all, just let the musicians do the work. Check the interpretation by the Northwestern University SWE with Mallory Thompson. iTMS has it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brichtimp Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Check the interpretation by the Northwestern University SWE with Mallory Thompson. iTMS has it. Awesome performance by those kids......also the University of Michigan Symphony Band with Michael Haithcock has a worthy recording of that piece up at ITMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv4corps Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 O Nata Lux - from Lux Aeterna - is another Lauridsen gem I'd love to hear played by a drum corps hornline. Maybe it's been done? Dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellotech Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Unfortunately, Lauridsen does not allow his music to be arranged for the outdoor activity. http://forums.bands.org/copyright/csvsearch.pl?search=lauridsen&header=Composer&method=any&records=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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